DARPA Concludes First Stage of Autonomous Tech Subterranean Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Agency held an underground mine mapping contest this month to demonstrate autonomous technologies.
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Privileged Access Mgmt Software Firm Remediant Raises $15M in Funding Round
Remediant, a San Francisco-based privileged access management software provider, has secured $15M in a round of Series A funding led by Dell Technologies’ investment arm and ForgePoint Capital.
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KBR, AWS, NASA Stage Autonomous Vehicle Race; Byron Bright Quoted
Amazon Web Services, KBR and NASA collaborated to stage a “DeepRacer†event on Aug. 8th to showcase a race of fully autonomous vehicles operated by NASA and KBR interns who used an advanced machine learning technique called reinforcement learning.
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Raytheon, Frequentis to Jointly Develop Air Traffic Control Tower Alternative
Raytheon and Frequentis USA have partnered to build a lower-cost alternative to air traffic control towers operating at airports.
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Iridium Announces 10 Partners for Transceiver Dev’t Effort; Matt Desch Quoted
Iridium Communications has revealed the first batch of beta partners for the development of devices based on the company’s Certus 9770 transceiver.
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Capella Space to Expand Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Research Through SpaceNet Partnership
Capella Space has partnered with SpaceNet to help grow the nonprofit organization’s geospatial open source research initiative via the adoption of synthetic aperture radar data.
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Northrop Eyes Production Capacity Increase for Global Hawk, Triton UAVs
Northrop Grumman  plans to increase the production of MQ-4C Triton and RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned air vehicles to 12 UAVs per year at its Site 7 facilities in Palmdale, Calif., as it expects to see a rise in demand for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, FlightGlobal reported Thursday.
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SolarWinds Network Management Suite Approved for Federal Use
Information technology firm SolarWinds has achieved Department of Defense approval for the company’s suite of network management tools.
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BAE Opens Innovation Hub in Georgia; Peder Jungck Quoted
BAE Systems officially unveiled an innovation facility at a cyber center in Augusta, Ga.
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ULA Prepares for Second GPS III Satellite Launch
United Launch Alliance is in the last stage of preparations for the launch of the second satellite that will provide the U.S. military with Global Positioning System III service.