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DARPA Awards RTX Contract for Kilometer-Range X-Ray Vision
RTX BBN Technologies received a DARPA contract to develop algorithms that reveal concealed threats from nearly 1 kilometer away, enhancing military situational awareness.
- On Feb. 25, 2026, DARPA awarded RTX's BBN Technologies a contract under the XENA program, announced from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- The XENA program aims to reconstruct hidden geometry of man-made objects from distances approaching one-kilometer ranges, giving commanders insights when closer access is unsafe or denied.
- Using blind algorithms, BBN will develop methods that work with few low-quality views, as Joshua Fasching said, 'Long-range X-ray imaging requires a fundamentally different approach.'
- Service members will receive actionable information about concealed threats and potential weapons from previously unreachable distances, supported by research funded in part by the U.S. government.
- The program targets pushing range by extending transmission X-ray imaging from single-meter to single-kilometer ranges, creating a new field using unresolved X-rays but facing data sparsity and motion blur challenges.
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DARPA taps RTX to advance kilometer-range X-ray vision - RTX (NYSE:RTX)
RTX BBN Technologies to develop long-range X-ray imaging algorithms to enable the identification of hard-to-access objects CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- RTX's (NYSE:RTX) BBN Technologies has been
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