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Blue Origin has launched a mockup of its Blue Moon 1 lunar lander at its Huntsville, Alabama-based facility for use in testing technologies meant for a manned version of the vehicle for NASA’s Artemis 5 mission.
Chris Meserole, an artificial intelligence safety expert, has been appointed executive director of an industry body that seeks to advance responsible and safe development of frontier AI models worldwide. In this capacity, he will oversee efforts to help the Frontier Model Forum advance AI safety research, share knowledge with academics and policymakers and determine safety best practices for frontier AI models, according to a Google blog post published Wednesday.
A joint venture between RTX's Raytheon business and Israel-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will make a $33 million investment to establish a facility in East Camden, Arkansas, to manufacture the Tamir missile for the Iron Dome weapon system and the U.S. version of the missile, dubbed SkyHunter. The Raytheon-Rafael Area Protection Systems JV will break ground on the manufacturing facility before the end of 2023 and plans to kick off missile production in 2025, RTX said Thursday.
The U.S. Air Force is seeking information on potential vendors that could provide cloud computing engineering services for the Kessel Run's All Domain Common Platform program and security operations of the KR Office of the Chief Technology Officer. Responses are due Nov. 2, according to a request for information published Wednesday.
Rocket Lab USA will resume launches of its Electron vehicle after it secured authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration. The company said Wednesday it initiated an investigation after encountering an in-flight anomaly during the 41st launch mission of its Electron rocket on Sept. 19.
Don Parente, vice president of public sector sales and solution architecture at MetTel, said the looming retirement of copper telephone lines calls for government agencies to take a proactive approach by conducting an assessment and audit of plain old telephone services and related systems and exploring the shift to a digital communications network. “An audit identifies all communication needs, both internal and external, to determine which services are critical and cannot be disrupted during a transition,” Parente wrote in an article published Tuesday in Nextgov/FCW.
The Department of State has approved Latvia’s request to buy six M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers and related equipment from the U.S. government under a potential $220 million foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed Martin will serve as the prime contractor in the FMS deal, which will enable Latvia to enhance its capability to address existing and future threats and improve interoperability with the U.S. and other allies, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday.
The Space Development Agency is soliciting information on approaches that could be used to develop a warfighting payload capability as part of the second tranche of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture's transport layer. SDA plans to deploy the Warlock capability as part of the PWSA T2TL Gamma satellites, according to a request for information posted Monday on SAM.gov.
Professional services firm cBEYONData has received a five-year contract from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to develop and field a software-as-a-service platform in support of EEOC’s event management system. The company said Tuesday the event registration and management system is meant to support EEOC’s training workshops and conferences and will provide information for EEO managers in the federal government and private sector, human resources professionals, alternative dispute resolution experts and attorneys.
The Assets Net has changed its name to Tracklynk as part of a rebranding effort that seeks to reflect its changing business focus aligned with the current needs of customers in the industrial internet of things sector. The rebranded Radiant Digital affiliate will focus on providing technology platforms in the areas of health and safety engineering and asset management meant to help enterprises improve security and safety, gain insights and enhance operational capability.
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.
A Leidos-led team will help the Department of Defense develop and integrate climate resilience strategies into its core functions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions under a potential five-year, $100 million blanket purchase agreement. Leidos said Thursday it will work with McKinsey & Co., ICF and Rocky Mountain Institute to assist DOD in meeting mission requirements and improving resource management processes under the Strategic Climate Sustainability and Resilience Services BPA.
