Government Technology

Todd Schroeder, vice president of government digital strategy at Salesforce, has said digital platforms can help agencies transform information technology, business and workflow processes. He wrote in an article published Monday that a platform will allow government users to collaborate on programs and across departments, as well as manage customer service. “Digital transformation isn’t about preserving […] More

Charles River Analytics has developed an open-source interface that employs a hybrid reality approach to military medical training and education. Virtuoso is based on a multimodal interface to allow natural human interactions within virtual and augmented reality environments and facilitate transfer of knowledge to trainees, the company said Thursday. The platform works to automatically assess a trainee’s skill […] More

An L3 Technologies subsidiary has received a contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with an unmanned underwater vehicle. L3 OceanServer said Thursday it will supply its Iver3 UUV to help Marine Corps Systems Command carry out evaluation and testing operations. Iver3 is a commercial-off-the-shelf autonomous underwater system that has a package of sensors including a side […] More

The U.S. Army has issued a request for information on potential providers of electronic countermeasures support services to the military branch’s explosive ordnance disposal mission. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the electronic warfare air/ground survivability division at the Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center needs assistance to conduct laboratory tests with the EWAGS Coaxial Test Bed. […] More

Testing of Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-3 Block IIA reached a milestone Tuesday when the system intercepted a ballistic missile target from land. The Missile Defense Agency conducted the third intercept test of the IIA variant at a range facility in Hawaii, Raytheon said Tuesday. A company-made AN/TPY-2 radar tracked the incoming threat and delivered target data to the weapon. In […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential two-year, $13.4M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop propulsion systems for a ground-launched tactical weapon platform. The contract was awarded in support of DARPA’s Operational Fires program that aims to build new mobile missile technologies, the company said Tuesday. The OpFires initiative seeks to meet the […] More

Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel has invested in and partnered with Immersive Wisdom to further develop the latter company’s virtual and intelligence platform for government applications. Immersive Wisdom designed its software to help users access information in real time and view live 3D maps through a shared virtual workspace, IQT said Tuesday. The technology employs virtual, mixed and […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity seeks industry feedback on a draft broad agency announcement about a program that aims to detect malicious behavior in artificial intelligence-based tools. IARPA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice it aims to gather information from technology vendors that could build or provide software designed to automatically inspect an AI […] More

The Department of Defense has selected C3 to provide an artificial intelligence-based tool that will work to compile data for F-35 deployments and missions, Defense One reported Thursday. The report said DoD normally takes 18 months to collect all Mission Data Files that help personnel to plan upcoming fighter aircraft operations and now wants to accelerate the […] More

NTT Group has signed an agreement to help the state of Nevada and the city of Las Vegas adopt a distributed platform for urban modernization efforts. Las Vegas will begin testing the company’s smart city offering in spring 2019 and consider implementing a full-scale service by summer 2019, NTT said Friday. The platform is based on the Cognitive Foundation architecture […] More

The Department of Defense intends to develop new communications platforms as part of an initiative to optimize and streamline the military’s infrastructure, National Defense reported Friday. DoD plans to leverage cloud computing and satellite communications to support the use of next-generation technologies for the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy. John Morris, chief engineer at […] More