The U.S. Army and the Defense Innovation Unit have selected eight companies to prototype autonomous software and processes to advance the use of uncrewed vehicles in challenging military operations as part of the Ground Vehicle Autonomous Pathways project. DIU said Wednesday the GVAP project seeks to provide a technical pipeline to support rapid modeling, development, testing and fielding of autonomous features.

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Constantine Saab, managing director and chief technology officer at Valor Equity Partners, has joined the advisory board of Peraton. Saab, an 18-year CIA veteran, will provide strategic counsel to Peraton's senior leadership team on shaping the company's business goals and objectives, the company said Thursday.

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Gecko Robotics, a developer of software and robotic technologies that work to build and maintain physical assets, announced raising $100 million from the extension of its Series C funding round in addition to the $73 million it had already received. Gecko Robotics said Tuesday that part of the Series C extension involves the expansion of its corporate board with the addition of U.S. Innovative Technology Managing Director Gaetano Crupi and Founders Fund Partner Trae Stephens.

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The Defense Innovation Unit has begun seeking proposals from industry sources capable of developing a hybrid architecture designed to integrate government and commercial networks to enable space-based communication capabilities. DIU said the second iteration of the Hybrid Space Architecture project will focus on four areas of interest: persistent sensing, resilient data transport, high-performance edge computing and data fusion.

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Scott Goldstein, a retired U.S. Air Force major general, has joined Parsons as a senior vice president, G2Xchange Defense reported Thursday. He brings to the Centreville, Virginia-based technology company his leadership and research and development experience in engineering, space, cybersecurity, electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance areas. Goldstein most recently served as chief scientist […] More

A group of 12 defense technology companies and venture capital firms provided the Department of Defense with four recommendations to reform acquisition, make revisions to specific planning, programming, budgeting and execution structures and address challenges to innovation. In a Friday letter to Defense Secretary and 2023 Wash100 awardee Lloyd Austin, the companies said they endorse […] More

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded other transaction contracts to Anduril Industries, Aalyria, Atlas and Enveil for a program that seeks to demonstrate a hybrid architecture that would allow government, military and commercial space assets to provide data communications worldwide. DIU said Thursday it is collaborating with the U.S. Space Force and the Air Force […] More

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