The U.S. Army has awarded contracts to 10 small businesses under the first phase of the Small Business Innovation Research program to enable them to further develop their proposed platforms in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning and clean technology. Each business will receive up to $250,000 to work on AI and ML […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded 13 small businesses grants under its Small Business Innovation Research Program for projects focusing on system monitoring and radar targeting sensors, artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as climate and clean technologies. Eight small businesses were awarded Phase I contracts of up to $250,000 each, while five entities received […] More

Northrop Grumman has rolled out the first MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle built for Australia‘s air force at a manufacturing location in Palmdale, California. Wednesday’s unveiling event comes almost three years after the company began aircraft construction work at its Moss Point, Mississippi, factory, Northrop said. The Australian defense department collaborates with Northrop and the […] More

The U.S. Army will invest $15 million in 10 small businesses for technology transition projects that encompass weapons, information systems and engineering sciences. The Army said Tuesday it will award each company up to $1.7 million under the Small Business Innovation Research program as the service branch seeks new technologies in the areas of information […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s aerospace systems business has secured a $50.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to repair 36 critical common items in support of its RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems. The company will provide repair services for multiple sensor packages, air vehicles, launch and recovery elements and mission control […] More

A Northrop Grumman-built autonomous maritime aircraft system has logged more than 40,000 flight hours since its first deployment with the U.S. Navy in 2009. The Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator reached the milestone during a routine flight over U.S. Central Command’s area of operations, Northrop said Thursday. BAMS-D, which was originally developed for a six-month Navy […] More

A team of Northrop Grumman and Aviation Communications & Surveillance Systems will collaborate to build a sense and avoid technology model for the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicle as part of a contract from the U.S. Navy.

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The U.S. Postal Service has implemented an edge artificial intelligence system on the NVIDIA EGX platform to help speed up the process of identifying and tracking packages within hours instead of several days. The distributed edge AI platform, called the Edge Computing Infrastructure Program, emerged from a three-week sprint in 2019. During the sprint, a USPS data scientist and NVIDIA architects identified ways to accelerate the analysis of billions of images of packages each USPS center generates by designing deep learning models.

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Aerojet Rocketdyne has secured a contract to provide the Department of Energy with two units of thermoelectric generators designed for deep space missions. The company said Friday it will fabricate, deliver and test a couple of Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators that would support possible missions to explore Saturn’s moon Titan and Neptune’s largest moon Triton. 

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Northrop Grumman's aerospace systems business has received a potential seven-year, $53.7M indefinite-delivery requirements contract to provide component repair services for the U.S. Air Force's high-altitude remotely piloted aircraft.

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Rolls-Royce has built its first electronic engine controller at a facility near Purdue University in Indiana to support the development of next-generation aircraft engine technologies.

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Northrop Grumman has secured a one-year, $86.2M contract modification to engineer, sustain and test mission control and operator training systems for an unmanned aerial vehicle fielded by the U.S. Navy.

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