The Defense Department announced the 10 research areas where it wants innovative small businesses to direct their efforts in 2019.
The agency’s research office is also standing up an in-house startup accelerator to help companies usher their tech out of the lab and into the real world.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Friday laid out the focus areas for its Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, and Small Business Technology Transfer, or STTR, programs. Over the next year, DARPA will recruit companies to participate in cutting-edge national security research efforts like advancing “third wave” artificial intelligence, developing miniature satellites, building lethal lasers and upgrading the country’s nuclear arsenal.
