The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a grant worth $18.6 million to Princeton University and technology company EnCharge AI, which have partnered on a multi-year project under DARPA's Optimum Processing Technology Inside Memory Arrays program. The $78 million OPTIMA program seeks to develop compute-in-memory accelerators for the handling of artificial intelligence workloads relevant to defense, EnCharge AI said Wednesday.

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Cybersecurity experts at ECS pooled their insights on protecting government and commercial assets with intelligence-driven online defense tools. Mark Maglin, vice president of cybersecurity for the company's Department of Defense account, highlighted the importance of knowing an organization's adversary in the same depth of its self-knowledge in order to succeed in intelligence-driven security.

On June 6, experts and government officials involved in cyber and digital modernization will gather at the Potomac Officers Club's 2024 Cyber Summit. Register as early as now to participate in the special event.

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Intel Corporation recently held an event where it launched a new foundry division the company described as “a more sustainable systems foundry business designed for the AI era.” Intel said Wednesday that the same event saw the unveiling of a roadmap outlining process node innovation and evolution targets through 2027 that would help Intel Foundry become the No. 2 foundry by 2030.

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Recorded Future has announced the general availability of its generative artificial intelligence tool designed to provide automated, real-time analysis of enterprise threat intelligence. The Recorded Future AI tool is a generative AI-based assistant designed to help intelligence and defense analysts in monitoring the threat landscape to gain situational awareness and take appropriate actions against emerging threats, the company said Wednesday.

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Ultra Intelligence & Communications has showcased the capability of its Orion multi-mission tactical line-of-sight radios and deployable satellite communications terminal to defense and civilian customers. During a technical demonstration, UI&C showed prototypes of the single-channel Orion X610 and the dual-channel Orion X630 radios and exhibited the GigaSat Ultralight VSAT, FA-100 and FA-180 satcom terminals, the company said Monday.

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Lockheed Martin's venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in weather intelligence provider Meteomatics to support the latter's product development and market expansion initiatives. Meteomatics said Thursday it will use the capital to scale its high-resolution weather and climate technology and expand its presence in the defense, energy, aviation, insurance and government sectors.

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William Streilein is a federal technology executive with over three decades of experience. In May 2022, he was named the Chief Technology Officer for the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer. Dr. Streilein’s current capacity earns him the distinction of delivering the keynote address at the 5th Annual Artificial […] More

Nicholas Waguespack, a technology executive with over two decades of combined defense and industry experience, has been appointed vice president of artificial intelligence at CACI International. Waguespack announced his new post on LinkedIn and shared that he would support the integration of AI and machine learning technologies into the various aspects of CACI's business operations.

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As cyber attacks evolve and increase in frequency, the Intelligence Community is working to ensure that it is prepared to handle these threats. Cyber is one topic that may be discussed at the Potomac Officers Club’s 10th Annual Intel Summit in September 2024, where experts from both the public and private sectors will come together to share their insights on the current intelligence landscape. 

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Leonid Capital Partners has made an investment in EMPEQ, the developer of a platform that works to identify military equipment parts and defective components using computer vision and artificial intelligence. Leonid said Monday that the funding facility aligns with EMPEQ's Air Force Direct to Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research contract.

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Axellio has secured a patent for its PacketXpress network intelligence platform. PacketXpress is a key component of the company's work with the U.S. Army in support of the service branch’s Garrison Defensive Cyberspace Operations Platform, Axellio said Tuesday.

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Steve Orrin, federal chief technology officer at Intel, said in an article published Wednesday in FedTech Magazine that government agencies should prioritize governance and assurance as they start evaluating use cases for artificial intelligence and should protect data and training models as they work to deploy AI tools.

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