The agency hopes that the system will help white-hat hackers to spot flaws in chip designs.

The new software will integrate with the military's JADC2 strategy.

Under terms of the five-year deal, the technology company will provide user-based software licenses.

The Army is sketching out ways to get open-architecture and commonality into contracts for future systems to boost their interoperability.

The Army's first software factory is up and running with its own office space in Austin Community College.

DARPA coded a program that can write its own software to build networks on the fly. But the program is at risk of falling through the cracks of the sustainment process.