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  • Boeing, Shield AI Partner to Explore Military AI, Autonomy Capabilities
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    Boeing, Shield AI Partner to Explore Military AI, Autonomy Capabilities

    Boeing and Shield AI have signed an agreement to demonstrate autonomous technologies and artificial intelligence platforms designed for military applications. The partnership aims to advance the integration of Shield AI’s Hivemind aircraft software and other AI capabilities into existing and future military programs, Boeing said Wednesday. Hivemind is an AI pilot system that works to […] More

  • Red 6 to Equip TF-50 Aircraft With Augmented Reality Training Tech
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    Red 6 to Equip TF-50 Aircraft With Augmented Reality Training Tech

    Red 6 will integrate its augmented reality training platform into the TF-50 jets that Lockheed Martin, Korea Aerospace Industries co-developed. The Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System is intended to provide pilots and ground operators with new capabilities to spot and react to real-time, high-speed synthetic threat environments, Lockheed said Tuesday. Under the partnership, ATARS will be applied […] More

  • Peraton Subcontracts Presidio Federal Under $2.7B DHS Cloud Optimization IDIQ
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    Peraton Subcontracts Presidio Federal Under $2.7B DHS Cloud Optimization IDIQ

    Presidio‘s federal arm has been named subcontractor of Peraton under the latter’s potential $2.7 billion data center and cloud optimization indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the Department of Homeland Security. As the prime contractor of DCCO, Peraton will procure professional services from Presidio Federal in support of the automation, optimization and modernization of DHS’ hybrid computing environment, […] More

  • Booz Allen Selects Latent AI to Support DOD’s Edge AI Development; Steve Escaravage Quoted
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    Booz Allen Selects Latent AI to Support DOD’s Edge AI Development; Steve Escaravage Quoted

    Booz Allen Hamilton has selected machine learning operations company Latent AI to help the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office develop and deploy ML and AI models at the tactical edge. Latent AI said Tuesday its Efficient Inference Platform will be used to assist the Department of Defense’s edge AI development and implementation efforts. Steve […] More

  • Textron Systems to Develop Mine Countermeasure Tech Under Navy MAGNUSS Contract
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    Textron Systems to Develop Mine Countermeasure Tech Under Navy MAGNUSS Contract

    Textron Systems has won a potential four-year, $54 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a mine countermeasure system under the service branch’s Magnetic and Acoustic Generation Next Unmanned Superconducting Sweep program. The Navy received three offers for the MAGNUSS cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, which has a base period of three years valued at approximately $20.1 […] More

  • AT&T’s Lance Spencer on Helping Air and Space Forces Transform Mission Capabilities With 5G Services
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    AT&T’s Lance Spencer on Helping Air and Space Forces Transform Mission Capabilities With 5G Services

    Lance Spencer, client executive vice president of defense for AT&T, said the company has facilitated the delivery of 5G services at Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado as part of efforts to help the Air and Space Forces modernize communications and their mission capabilities under the Enterprise Information Technology-as-a-Service program. Spencer wrote in a blog […] More

  • The US Is Betting on Quantum—But Is It Enough?
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    The US Is Betting on Quantum—But Is It Enough?

    Quantum computing is one of the most ascendent and sought-after technologies in today’s climate, with broad applications. Prognosticators believe that it will have widespread influence and effects in global citizens’ lives in the coming years. For example, experts have pointed to quantum’s usage in autonomous vehicles that can operationalize its speed of compute to help […] More

  • Steve Arnette, EVP & President of CMS Business at Jacobs, Honored With 2023 Wash100 Award for Leadership in Delivering Continued NASA Mission Support
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    Steve Arnette, EVP & President of CMS Business at Jacobs, Honored With 2023 Wash100 Award for Leadership in Delivering Continued NASA Mission Support

    Executive Mosaic is pleased to award Jacobs Executive Vice President Steve Arnette his first Wash100 recognition for his role in driving continued government contracting work for the company, most notably those opportunities in support of NASA missions. Arnette, the president of Jacobs’ critical missions solutions business, is among the top government and GovCon leaders inducted […] More

  • Microsoft’s Federal Arm Wraps Up DIB Cybersecurity Assessment
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    Microsoft’s Federal Arm Wraps Up DIB Cybersecurity Assessment

    Microsoft’s federal business has completed a Defense Contract Management Agency test that examined the company’s cybersecurity capabilities. The company said Tuesday it received a perfect score of 110 from DCMA’s Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Assessment Center and certified third-party assessment organization Redspin for the Joint Surveillance Voluntary Assessment Program. Per federal rulemaking, the DIBCAC High Certificate […] More

  • Boeing Demos Anti-Jamming System for Military Satcom Platforms
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    Boeing Demos Anti-Jamming System for Military Satcom Platforms

    Boeing has showcased a ground-based system designed to protect military satellite communications platforms from jamming and electronic warfare threats during a demonstration held at the Joint Satellite Engineering Center. The company said Tuesday it used an on-orbit operational satellite to test the capability of the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical Enterprise Service to enable ground-based […] More

  • HII Unit Secures Approval for 3D-Printed NAVSEA Platform Components
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    HII Unit Secures Approval for 3D-Printed NAVSEA Platform Components

    HII‘s Newport News Shipbuilding unit has received additional approval to use additive manufacturing to produce stainless steel pipefittings for the Naval Sea Systems Command’s ships and other platforms. NNS was previously authorized to fabricate other vessel components using 3D printing, HII said Tuesday. NAVSEA initially approved additive manufacturing technical standards in 2018, and installed the first […] More

  • Draper Expands Operations via New Indiana Office
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    Draper Expands Operations via New Indiana Office

    Draper has expanded its operations through the opening of a new office in Odon, Indiana, marking the nonprofit engineering innovation company’s ninth office branch across the United States Located at WestGate@Crane Technology Park, the new office pushes forward Draper’s planned expansion of customer capabilities and partnerships in the region, the company said Tuesday.  Duane Embree […] More