The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has released a broad agency announcement focused on advancing the development of high-powered electromagnetics for directed energy-powered weapon systems under its five-year, $140 million High-Powered Electromagnetics research program, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes AFRL plans to use the HPEM initiative to push for the development of the […] More

GE’s intelligent platforms business will perform a six-month research on radar systems in an effort to help the U.S. Air Force establish open architectures for future radar processors onboard the service’s platforms. The research program covers the benchmarking and optimization of synthetic aperture radar and ground moving target indicator radar modes on multiprocessor high-performance embedded […] More

Stacy Cleveland serves as a vice president of global practices for the U.S. public sector business at HP Enterprise Services. In this capacity, she works to drive growth for the unit’s service offerings in the public sector market and focuses on HP’s aim to expand its public sector market share in the “New Style of IT” business, with an […] More

Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including VP and director. Albert caught […] More

Dr. Melvin Greer serves as senior fellow and chief strategist for service-oriented architecture and cloud computing at Lockheed Martin, where he brings more than 25 years of experience leading systems and software engineering efforts to the contractor’s advanced technology office. Greer is a principal investigator in advanced research studies, and has dedicated his efforts towards […] More

General Electric‘s intelligent platforms business has won a contract to provide the U.S. Air Force an embedded neuromorphic computing platform for use in wide-area surveillance applications, Military Aerospace & Electronics reported Thursday. The publication reports the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y. selected a GE infrastructure that mimics human’s neuro-biological actions in […] More