The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued a special notice inviting interested parties to participate in Phase 1 meetings of its Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program. The agency is seeking parties with capabilities, methodologies and approaches that are related to CODE research and focused on what it says are "revolutionary approaches" to unmanned aircraft systems.

(View the DARPA notice here.)

The CODE program aims to develop software and algorithms that would extend the current mission capabilities of existing unmanned aircraft. Specifically, researchers are trying to develop a modular software architecture that can withstand bandwidth limitations and communication disruptions.

Two meetings have already been planned for the first week of March 2015, in Arlington, Va.: an open architecture meeting and a technology interchange meeting.

The open architecture meeting will focus on making the CODE open architecture compatible with communication-constrained distributed and autonomous collaborative systems. The technology interchange meeting invites participants to present technologies that can be incorporated into future phases of the CODE program.

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