Government Technology

Qualcomm has partnered with Commsignia and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada to integrate a driver assistance platform on Las Vegas roadways.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold an event on Wednesday to discuss a two-phase initiative to develop an artificial intelligence technology that would uncover and understand complex events from multimedia sources. DARPA said Friday it seeks to build a semi-automated system to determine correlations between unrelated events or data and generate actionable insights that could inform national […] More

Lockheed Martin is updating its radar technology offerings in a push to help military clients to defend against threats from drones and hypersonic weapons, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday. Paul Lemmo, vice president and general manager of Lockheed’s integrated warfare systems and sensors group, told reporters at a media briefing the company works throughout its portfolio as […] More

Michael Jenkins, senior scientist at Charles River Analytics, discussed the company’s efforts to develop an augmented reality display through a Federal Highway Administration-funded project aimed at hazard awareness for motorcyclists. He delivered a presentation about the BARRACUDA initiative at the third-annual meeting of the FHWA’s Motorcyclist Advisory Council last month, Charles River said Thursday. The […] More

The Federal Communications Commission has given Google approval to operate radar-based motion sensors for device control applications, Reuters reported Wednesday. The sensors, known as Soli, are built with touchless hand gesture technology that allows users with speech or mobility disabilities to remotely control devices, the report noted. Soli uses a radar beam to sense three-dimensional […] More

Sprint‘s accessibility technology business has received contracts to deliver captioned telephone and telecommunications relay services within the states of Kansas and Maine. The Kansas relay service is accessible 24 hours a day and will help people who have hearing or speech disabilities to communicate with traditional phone users via a specialized text and third-party operator, […] More

A Visiongain forecast, released by ReportLinker, says military sensor technology adoption will help drive the global sensor fusion market between 2019 and 2029. ReportLinker said Thursday the market will experience growth over the next decade as military organizations seek to obtain insights from sensor data. The report also provides an analysis of the following key industry […] More

The Missile Defense Agency has notified the U.S. space technology base of MDA’s plan to solicit technology proposals for the next phase of a program that aims to build a space-based sensor to support hypersonic missile defense efforts. Phase IIa of Space Sensor Layer project will cover payload design and risk reduction for signal chain processing approach under […] More

Some U.S. Army officials have said the service aims to expand partnerships with industry in efforts to develop small arms trainers designed to utilize simulation technology and realistic weaponry, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. Maj. Gen. Maria Gervais, deputy commanding general of the Combined Arms Center-Training and head of the Synthetic Training Environment team, said the […] More

In-Q-Tel and Lilt have partnered to offer U.S. government agencies the latter company’s technology platform designed to translate source content in different languages. Lilt developed a machine translation engine that vetted translators continuously update and works to help enterprises localize foreign materials, IQT said Thursday. “Our mission is to make the world’s information accessible to everyone, regardless of […] More

A General Dynamics business unit and its partners will move to the second phase of development an active protection system for the U.S. Army’s Bradley Fighting Vehicles. A team of General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, Elbit Systems and IMI received positive feedback from the Army Requirements Oversight Council for the Iron Fist Light APS, the Falls […] More

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a request for proposals on security technology concepts based on key topics under the agency’s Small Business Innovation Research program. The solicitation covers two subject areas for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office’s missions and eight potential topics for DHS Science and Technology Directorate projects, DHS S&T said […] More