Mitre inaugurated a drone range in Orange, Virginia, to serve its researchers as well as U.S. government partners looking to test their experimental unmanned aircraft systems, robotics, and autonomous technologies. The nonprofit group said Tuesday it opened the site to advance commercial and federal UAS and counter-UAS innovations. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Microsystems Technology Office is inviting the industry to submit research ideas to address existing and future challenges in information and communication technologies. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov states that the Forward-Looking Experimentation program aims to identify ICT innovations in seven topics: cognition; communications and connectivity; intelligent sensing; distributed […] More

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has released a broad agency announcement for a program that seeks to transform innovations from other domains into health care platforms that can be scaled to larger application areas. The Scaling Health Applications Research for Everyone program calls for interested stakeholders to demonstrate technical feasibility and develop a […] More

NASA has begun accepting applications for an annual program that awards grants and cooperative agreements to projects focused on testing technologies on suborbital or orbital flights. The 2023 Technology Advancement Utilizing Suborbital and Orbital Flight Opportunities solicitation is open to companies and academic and research institutions in the U.S., NASA said Wednesday. TechFlights evolved from […] More

The National Science Foundation is inviting federal agencies, software companies, and academic and research institutions, to join its research effort to drive new innovations in advanced networking systems. NSF said it intends to invest in new public-private partnerships that can design and investigate the potential of next-generation computing, networking, sensing and communications. The agency published […] More

The Department of Energy has named the ten winners of its first contest for innovations in energy storage that could support its decarbonization goals. The Energy Storage Innovations Prize is collectively worth $300,000, with five teams receiving $50,000 each and the rest securing $10,000 each, DOE said Monday. The Office of Electricity-led challenge recognizes emerging […] More

The Department of Energy has chosen 53 small businesses that will receive a total of $68 million in grants for conducting research and development efforts focused on climate change and renewable power. The projects were covered by the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer allocation, DOE said Wednesday. The awardees are working […] More

Six companies have been selected to provide a range of innovations and partnership support services to multiple NASA centers under a $47.5 million contract. Under the blanket purchase agreement, the contractors will assist in program operations management, organizational change management, strategic planning and execution, stakeholder engagement and outreach and helpdesk operations, NASA said Thursday.  The […] More

Quantum Computing Inc. will build a research and production facility to house its future innovations in quantum nanophotonics. The Leesburg, Virginia-based company said Friday it intends to finance the project through government incentives, particularly opportunities under the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. The planned research center will serve as QCI’s hub for developing nanophotonics […] More

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) announced it is soliciting proposals for early-stage research referred to as seedlings for next-generation microelectronics for artificial intelligence (AI). Interested parties must submit a white paper until May 17, while the proposals themselves are due June 30.

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ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has received a potential five-year, $53 million task order to expand its cyber-related studies with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. "The initiatives, innovations and technologies we develop through secure cyber systems engineering, agile development and rapid prototyping will enhance the Army against emerging and dynamic threats," said Jonathan Sholtis, senior vice president of ICF's cybersecurity services and solutions business.

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Kevin Kelly, president of the national security and innovative solutions sector at CACI International, said warfighters are inundated with one-off systems that demand network, storage and battery and the company seeks to address that with multimission platforms, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.

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