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A Boeing and Red 6 team has finished the initial flight testing of augmented reality technologies designed to enhance the combat capabilities of the U.S. Air Force. Incorporating Red 6’s Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality System and Augmented Reality Command and Analytic Data Environment on the TA-4J tactical aircraft took less than a year to complete, Thomas Bergeson, president […] More
Ball Aerospace and NASA’s team at Goddard Space Flight Center have assembled the primary camera system for the space agency’s next-generation Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope. The Wide Field Instrument is constructed to be capable of providing a field of view over 100 times larger than Roman’s Hubble Space telescope predecessor while retaining the same resolution, […] More
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will host proposers’ days on Oct. 5 and 6 for the Securing our Underlying Resources in Cyber Environments program. The SoURCE CODE program seeks technologies that will help forensic experts accelerate the process of attributing a cyber attack to its perpetrators by checking coding styles, according to a notice […] More
Despite how it is often described, artificial intelligence is not necessarily a new or emerging technology. In fact, AI has been around for nearly 80 years, according to Dr. Cara LaPointe, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy. But with the considerably increased speed of advancements made in the last few years, AI is […] More
Accenture Federal Services has booked a five-year, $25 million contract from the Air Force Sustainment Center to modernize operations at three Air Logistics Complexes. Under the award, AFS will build an Industrial Internet of Things platform for use at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, Robins Air Force Base in Georgia and Hill Air Force Base in […] More
The U.S. government faces some of the same issues that the private sector is struggling with when it comes to data management approaches, Justin Marsico, chief data officer and deputy assistant commissioner of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, said in an interview with Denodo Federal Vice President and General Manager Bill Sullivan. Marsico, during […] More
BWX Technologies will evaluate the viability of fielding small-scale nuclear reactors as a potential energy resource in the state of Wyoming under a two-year contract with the Wyoming Energy Authority. BWXT’s advanced technologies subsidiary will perform contract work in two phases and the initial phase will involve collaboration with the state’s industries to identify the […] More
Boeing has received the Raytheon-made B-52 active electronically scanned array radar that will be utilized for system integration, verification and testing activities under a U.S. Air Force modernization program. RTX said Tuesday its Raytheon subsidiary used AESA technologies from AN/APG-79 radar as basis for the B-52 radar, which is envisioned to have better mapping and […] More
Culmen International and Switzerland’s Center for Adaptive Security Research and Applications will help secure airports across Ukraine under a partnership with Boryspil International Airport. Dan Berkon, CEO of Culmen, said in a statement published Tuesday that the company will build on its aviation security expertise and experience to help the airport upskill its staff “who […] More
The White House has received voluntary commitments from eight companies to help foster secure, safe and trustworthy development of artificial intelligence tools. Adobe, Cohere, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI and Stability have committed to adhering to three principles of responsible AI development in support of the current administration’s efforts to manage AI risks, the […] More
NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne have wrapped up 25 years of rocket engine testing collaboration that supported 44 national space launches. The engine builder’s hydrogen-fueled RS-68 technology helped government customers launch key missions, such as the U.S. Air Force-led Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program, while working with NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, the agency said […] More
Building a trusted relationship with artificial intelligence technologies is non-negotiable for the Department of Defense as it gets serious about the hot button tool. Pentagon officials have to consider all of the intricacies of weapon systems in order to properly contend with how to integrate and build in AI features — as well as “the […] More
