Government Technology

A federal laboratory within the Department of Homeland Security has begun to request information on the availability of a system that will work to measure radiation levels when emergency response personnel perform missions. The National Urban Security Technology Laboratory is conducting market research into mobile radiation detection technology under NUSTL’s System Assessment and Validation for […] More

Leland Brown and Anna Scott of Intel said there are four strategies the Department of Defense should consider to optimize the full potential of 5G technology in supporting soldiers on the battlefield and one is developing a software ecosystem to support 5G implementation. Brown and Scott wrote in a commentary published Wednesday on Defense News […] More

Satellogic and Palantir Technologies have formed a new partnership that grants the companies access to each other’s technologies to enhance satellite imaging, artificial intelligence and data analytics capabilities in support of their customers. Palantir’s Foundry platform will be used by Satellogic to speed up business processes, enterprise-wide data integration, satellite imagery delivery and AI training, […] More

Advanced Technology Systems Company has secured a five-year, $93.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for the second phase of a system designed to protect Egypt’s national borders. ATSC will build border surveillance equipment, fixed-site towers and a truck-based vehicle for Egypt’s Mobile Surveillance Sensor Security System program, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Northrop Grumman to prototype an artificial intelligence technology that would integrate with augmented reality platform to assist helicopter pilots in performing their tasks. The company will work with the University of Central Florida to develop the Operator and Context Adaptive Reasoning Intuitive Assistant under DARPA’s Perceptually-enabled Task […] More

The U.S. Army’s innovation unit has announced the selection of four companies for the Soldier Power Cohort that seeks to explore and build technologies that can generate, manage, store and distribute power to warfighters deployed in expeditionary environments. Epirus, Resonant Link, Spark Thermionics and Xerion Advanced Battery will get $100,000 to build conceptual designs meant […] More

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Lightsense Technology’s drug detection device to law enforcement organizations using its government contracts. DrugDetect-M1 is a light-based sensing device designed to help law enforcement officials detect the presence of opioid threats, Carahsoft said Monday. Public sector entities may now access DrugDetect-M1 through Carahsoft’s contracts with NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide […] More

A new report from the IBM Center for The Business of Government presents a synthesis of insights from defense, industry and academic leaders on the implementation of the multidomain command and control strategy and offers six action-oriented recommendations on how to deliver MDC2 capabilities to ensure collective defense in conflicts. The recommendations in the report […] More

CAES has partnered with Lattice Semiconductor to qualify and distribute the latter’s field-programmable gate array for use in space systems. The Arlington, Virginia-based electronics manufacturer said Monday Lattice’s radiation-resistant Certus-NX-RT and CertusPro FPGAs will be added to its space product portfolio and offered as reconfigurable processing systems for future satellites. The Lattice-made FPGAs build on […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ research and development arm has helped the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity create a tool to help English-only speakers retrieve and understand foreign content. The company said Monday Raytheon BBN built and demonstrated its cross-language information retrieval system over a four-year period as part of IARPA’s Machine Translation for English Retrieval for Information […] More