Government Technology

The U.S. Marine Corps has received an active electronically scanned array radar system Northrop Grumman equipped with a gallium nitride antenna and designed to help the service branch monitor threats in real time. Northrop said Thursday delivery of the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar with GaN technology came after the company handed six G/ATORs over to the service branch in […] More

Sridhar Sudarsan, formerly chief technology officer of Watson platform and partnerships at IBM, has been appointed to the same role at SparkCognition. Sudarsan will oversee SparkCognition’s technical and product strategy in collaboration with Bruce Porter, the firm’s chief science officer, and other industry and artificial intelligence experts, the company said Tuesday. Amir Husain, founder and CEO […] More

NASA has announced it will launch the car-sized Parker Solar Probe on Aug. 6 for a mission to study the sun at a close distance. The spacecraft will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, as part of a project headed by Nicky Fox, a scientist from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, NASA said […] More

Charles River Analytics will lead a development program for a toolkit that will help the U.S. Army determine the impact of fatigue and other causes of stress on soldiers and warfighting operations. Peter Weyhrauch, vice president of the Cambridge, Mass.-based firm’s human effectiveness division, said in a statement published Friday that the military will leverage […] More

Rick Yuse, president of Raytheon’s space and airborne systems business, told Breaking Defense in an interview posted Thursday the company’s approach to combat operations across land, air, space, sea and cyber domains homes in on “five critical technology enablers”. He said multi-sensor data fusion; machine learning and artificial intelligence; open systems architecture; secure high-speed network; […] More

Tom Bussing, vice president for advanced missile systems at Raytheon, has said the company was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build a new tactical boost glide platform, National Defense reported Wednesday. Bussing told reporters Wednesday at the Farnborough International Airshow the company is in negotiations with the Defense Department and hopes […] More

The U.S. Navy has completed a two-part assessment of an anti-submarine warfare mission package at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Seneca Lake Detachment’s test facility in New York. For the first part of the Dockside-1 evaluation period, the Dual-mode ARray Transmitter mission system towed body and its launch-and-recovery assembly parts went through a 10-day test […] More

Airbus’ defense and space business has launched at the Farnborough Airshow an unmanned aerial vehicle designed to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Airbus said Monday it also opened the first production facility for the Zephyr S High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite UAV and named it after Zephyr inventor Chris Kelleher. Sophie Thomas, head of the Zephyr […] More

United Technologies Corp.‘s aerospace systems business has developed a vehicle management computer technology that would accommodate fly-by-wire technology and autonomous flight for both civil and military aircraft. The new computer uses three multi-core processors, high-speed communications and open architecture to support high-redundancy flights, UTC said Sunday. UTC Aerospace Systems intends for the new VMC to generate 20 […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a request for information on quantum computing capabilities that can address hard science and technology challenges. A FedBizOpps notice posted on July 10 says the agency’s Defense Sciences Office aims to determine the limits of quantum computing and its ability to refine artificial intelligence, machine learning and […] More

Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, recently said that the government must regulate the use of facial recognition technology in light of its potential for abuse. Authorities must “pursue thoughtful government regulation” of facial recognition technology to mitigate the risk of its being used in such a way that would adversely impact […] More