  We describe the current status of the DarkLight experiment at Jefferson
Laboratory. DarkLight is motivated by the possibility that a dark photon in the
mass range 10 to 100 MeV/c$^2$ could couple the dark sector to the Standard
Model. DarkLight will precisely measure electron proton scattering using the
100 MeV electron beam of intensity 5 mA at the Jefferson Laboratory energy
recovering linac incident on a windowless gas target of molecular hydrogen. The
complete final state including scattered electron, recoil proton, and e+e- pair
will be detected. A phase-I experiment has been funded and is expected to take
data in the next eighteen months. The complete phase-II experiment is under
final design and could run within two years after phase-I is completed. The
DarkLight experiment drives development of new technology for beam, target, and
detector and provides a new means to carry out electron scattering experiments
at low momentum transfers.
