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Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert has called on state governors to expand the authority of chief data officers in their jurisdictions to better manage data collection efforts, StateScoop reported Monday.
The U.S. Postal Service on Friday posted a request for information, seeking market feedback about autonomous vehicle technologies that the agency could use on its fleet of delivery vans. The USPS said in its FedBizOpps notice that it is looking into the possibility of fielding delivery vehicles that can safely drive themselves along a postal route while an operator sorts mail onboard.
United Technologies Corp.'s Collins Aerospace business has received a potential four-year, $68M contract to modernize the information management platform and operations center of the New York City subway.
Cybersecurity firm Jazz Networks has won a competition that focused on the detection of insider threat attacks within a simulated battlefield at a U.S. Cyber Command-backed cyber innovation and collaboration hub in Columbia, Md.
Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft re-entered Earth's atmosphere on Monday, nearly three months after the cargo ship launched aboard an Antares rocket in Virginia as part of the company's 10th contracted resupply flight to the International Space Station.
NASA on Friday issued a request for information notice, seeking capability statements from companies that possess the expertise and technologies needed to develop and support a spacecraft for the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 Mission. The goal of TSIS-2 is to deliver by March 2022 a spacecraft equipped with sensors that will gather solar irradiance data.
Lockheed Martin and the University of Dayton have partnered to determine whether a varactor technology can mitigate interference from devices that may affect the performance of sensors.
General Atomics' aeronautical systems business continues to develop a multimission remotely piloted aircraft and intends to equip the new vehicle with a detect and avoid technology as part of certification efforts.
Virgin Galactic launched its SpaceShipTwo spacecraft on Friday carrying four NASA-supported research payloads into suborbital space. NASA said Saturday the payloads aboard the second test flight are the Microgravity Multi-Phase Flow Experiment for Suborbital Testing from the agency’s Johnson Space Center; Vibration Isolation Platform from Controlled Dynamics; Collisions into Dust Experiment from the University of Central Florida in Orlando; and Electromagnetic Field Measurements from Johns Hopkins University.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started the process of soliciting research proposals for a machine learning technology to help autonomous systems determine its task competency and support human-machine teaming activities.
The U.S. Marine Corps has asked industry to submit ideas on how to develop a weapons system that would hit targets at a range surpassing that of systems being used by organic infantry units.
Firefly Aerospace has announced plans to open manufacturing and launch facilities within Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida. The company said Friday it will invest $52M to construct production facilities at Exploration Park and begin launch operations at Space Launch Complex 20 as part of an agreement with Space Florida, the state’s spaceport development authority.
