{"id":188684,"date":"2024-05-05T02:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T07:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/darpa-selects-northrop-grumman-umbra-for-phase-ii-of-drift-program"},"modified":"2024-05-05T02:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T07:23:19","slug":"darpa-selects-northrop-grumman-umbra-for-phase-ii-of-drift-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/darpa-selects-northrop-grumman-umbra-for-phase-ii-of-drift-program","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Selects Northrop Grumman, Umbra for Phase II of DRIFT Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-selects-northrop-grumman-umbra-for-phase-ii-of-drift-program.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Northrop Grumman <\/strong>and <strong>Umbra<\/strong> have been awarded small contracts by the<strong> Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/strong> (DARPA) to continue to the second phase of a program designed to collect data from radar-equipped satellites flying in formation and develop innovative algorithms to process the data for military applications.<\/p>\n<p>Umbra\u2019s contract under the Distributed Radar Image Foundation Technology (DRIFT) program is for $6 million and will last for six months and Northrop Grumman\u2019s is for $2 million and covers one year, a DARPA spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northrop Grumman and Umbra have been awarded small contracts by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue to the second phase of a program designed to collect data from radar-equipped satellites flying in formation and develop innovative algorithms to process the data for military applications. Umbra\u2019s contract under the Distributed Radar Image Foundation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}