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A Boeing-led industry team and the Missile Defense Agency have demonstrated the ability of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system to intercept an intermediate-range ballistic missile target. During the test, a three-stage GMD interceptor was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, which deployed an RTX-built Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle to intercept a threat-representative ballistic missile target air-launched from the Board Ocean Area, Boeing said Monday.

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The government of New York has partnered with IBM, Micron, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron and other companies to invest $10 billion in the establishment of a new semiconductor research and development facility at the Albany NanoTech Complex in the state. The facility will be equipped with an ASML-built high-numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet lithography system, which IBM used to develop the world’s first 2 nanometer node chip in 2021, the company said Tuesday.

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The U.S. Army has completed preliminary testing of a portable electronic warfare system developed by CACI International's Mastodon Design subsidiary. The manpack version of the Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team underwent an operational demonstration at Fort Huachuca in Arizona in November.

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The Air Force Research Laboratory has released a five-year broad agency announcement describing the research areas of interest of the directed energy directorate. AFRL will issue standard and topic area group call announcements against the Tactical BAA to seek proposals for specific research initiatives upon identification of technical requirements, according to a SAM.gov notice published Wednesday.

Register here to attend the Potomac Officers Club’s 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 31 and hear defense leaders, researchers and experts discuss the latest developments in the field of military technology.

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Atom Computing has developed a 1,225-site atomic array containing 1,180 qubits for its next-generation neutral atom quantum computer set to be released in 2024. The company said Tuesday it has become the first quantum system developer to cross the 1,000-qubit threshold in a universal, gate-based system, which is necessary to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing for solving large-scale problems.

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DRT Strategies has helped the Food and Drug Administration move its 27 mission-critical applications from an on-premises data center to the Amazon Web Services cloud environment to enable FDA to facilitate food substance review process, accelerate the identification of foodborne pathogens and quickly field new applications.

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BlueHalo has unveiled its Next Generation Missile to provide the military with layered counter-unmanned aerial system and air defense capabilities. NGM was developed to integrate with current military infrastructure and command and control platforms and defeat Group 3 UAS and other larger air targets.

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A team featuring Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works advanced development arm and the U.S. Air Force has demonstrated new avionics capabilities as part of the U-2 Dragon Lady aircraft modernization effort. The aerospace company said Wednesday that a low-altitude functional check flight test was conducted to test three capabilities in support of the military branch's Avionics Tech Refresh program for the reconnaissance aircraft.

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The Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce has selected cBEYONData as one of the finalists for the Greater Washington GovCon Awards, an annual ceremony that recognizes the significant efforts of federal government service providers. cBEYONData is competing in the Contractor of the Year category with revenues ranging from $25 million to $75 million.

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HawkEye 360 has unveiled a new product offering that could enable users to survey radio frequency activity and examine signal characteristics in regions of interest using unprocessed in-phase and quadrature data. RFIQ is designed to allow users to detect and geolocate new signals and emitters across several frequencies by providing them access to spectral data sets. More