DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and is the part of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies. DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge Final Event took place August 4, 2016, at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Conference Center. Seven computers developed by teams of hackers played the world's first-ever all-machine game of Capture the Flag.

The DARPA Launch Challenge has begun, with a once-stealthy startup aiming to launch two rockets from an Alaska spaceport within the next month and a half to win a $10 million grand prize. DARPA designed the challenge to "better equip warfighters and first responders to explore human-made tunnel systems, urban underground, and natural cave networks, while decreasing risk … The challenge, the SubT Challenge Competitors, kicks off with an opening day on 27 September 2018. Goal: The DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) is the first-of-its-kind collaborative machine-learning competition to overcome scarcity in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency set up the challenge in 2018 to serve as an added The clock is running for the DARPA Launch Challenge, with Astra chasing …

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