RTX's Raytheon business, in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, demonstrated the ability of its new GhostEye MR radar to support air defense operations during an extended exercise at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The Raytheon-built radar technology was integrated into the command and control element of the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System, expanding the missile system's capabilities against cruise missile and drone threats, RTX said Wednesday.

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Capt. Jesse Black, Commanding Officer of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), will be a Panelist at the 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit.    Read on and get to know more about Capt. Jesse Black’s leadership and significant milestones.   Meet Captain Jesse Black      Equipped with over 30 years of experience in the […] More

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are incredibly relevant today because they can completely transform different industries and applications. Whether automating tasks, improving security, or making things more efficient, their ongoing progress greatly impacts our society and economy.   Here, we’ve got an influential leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Dr. William Casebeer is the […] More

Do you know who’s leading the charge in equipping our soldiers with cutting-edge technology? Meet Patrick Baker, the Director of the U.S. Combat Capabilities Development Command, Army Research Laboratory since December 2019.    DEVCOM creates, integrates, and delivers technology-enabled solutions to soldiers, and Mr. Baker is at the forefront of this mission. As part of […] More

Advanced Technology International has been awarded an other transaction agreement by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division. The public service non-profit company said Thursday that, under the OTA, it will serve as the manager for the Expeditionary Missions Consortium - Crane.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 14 companies for a seven-month capability study that seeks to develop technology concepts to advance an integrated, multiservice commercial lunar infrastructure. Under the 10-Year Lunar Architecture Capability Study, the companies will collaborate to design systems-level platforms spanning multiple lunar services, including lunar power; communications, navigation and timing; mining and commercial in-situ resource utilization; construction and robotics; and transit, mobility and logistics, DARPA said Tuesday.

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Precise Systems on Nov. 10 closed the transaction to acquire Excet, a provider of scientific research and engineering services to Department of Defense customers, including the U.S. Army and Navy. Excet's areas of expertise include alternative energy, biotechnology, synthetic biology and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives threat assessment, and many of its employees are holders of advanced degrees in various disciplines, Precise Systems said.

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BlueHalo, an Arlington Capital Partners portfolio company, has acquired Ipsolon Research, a provider of high-performance, ultra-small form factor software-defined radios, for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is intended to support BlueHalo's current strategic and technological priorities by accelerating rapid prototyping and product delivery and promoting quality within its supply chain.

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Mitre and Microsoft have updated a community knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques that security professionals use to protect artificial intelligence-enabled tools with the addition of new vulnerabilities and case studies involving generative AI and large language models. Mitre Adversarial Threat Landscape for AI Systems features updates describing the type of attack pathways in LLM-enabled platforms that could be used to build up defenses against malicious attacks involving AI tools used in health care, transportation and finance, among other sectors, the nonprofit organization said Monday.

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Reston, Virginia-based ICF has received an 18-month, $27 million recompete contract from the National Institutes of Health to modernize and continue operating ClinicalTrials.gov, an online clinical trials database maintained by the National Library of Medicine. The technology services provider said Wednesday it also secured a potential three-year, multiple-award blanket purchase agreement from NIH to organize and improve access to NLM’s biomedical and public health data.

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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has issued Materion Corporation a contract to support additive manufacturing research and development efforts. Under the award, Materion will assist with the study of this production technique, which is also referred to as 3D printing, for beryllium and aluminum-beryllium alloys, the Mayfield Heights, Ohio-headquartered company announced on Monday.

At the Potomac Officers Club's 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 31, experts from both government and industry will come together for a deep dive into the Department of Defense's most critical R&D initiatives. Click here to learn more and click here to register.

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A team of researchers at IBM Research's laboratory in Almaden, California, has developed a brain-inspired chip, called NorthPole, that could pave the way for the development of more energy-efficient and faster artificial intelligence hardware systems. Dharmendra Modha and his colleagues from IBM Research used a 12-nanometer node processing technology to develop the chip prototype, which has 22 billion transistors and 256 cores with the capability to carry out 2,048 operations for each core per cycle at 8-bit precision, according to an IBM Research blog post published Friday.

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