The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency next week will kick off its inaugural Lift Challenge, a weeklong competition that aims to "revolutionize heavy vertical-lift aviation" by finding a drone ...

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) issued a challenge, the DARPA Lift Challenge, in October 2025 to develop novel drone designs that have greater payload-to-weight ratio. DARPA, which ...

Through its Tactical Technology Office (TTO), DARPA wants to move drones to the next level with its Lift Challenge – a US$6.5-million competition aimed at creating small drones capable of lifting ...

DARPA has launched a prize challenge to demonstrate multicopter uncrewed aircraft that can carry payloads more than four times their weight in a stated goal of tapping into the U.S. “garage innovator” ...

Find out what some of the engineering challenges and tradeoffs are for sUAS heavy lift drones. Get an early look at some of the contenders in this year’s DARPA Lift Challenge. Some interesting ...

Hot on the heels of today's DARPA announcement of Lift Challenge 2.0 (yes, they're officially doing another one, which we suggested they do in our recent article), this week's Inside Electronics ...

Congress created the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to make sure America was never beaten by technological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A resupply drone takes off during a heavy unmanned aerial resupply test flight at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near ...