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Microsoft is working with NASA on Project Sidekick to provide virtual training and assistance to the crew of the International Space Station through the company’s HoloLens technology. The space agency said June 26 the project aims to leverage commercial technology for the ISS crew’s empowerment and efficiency. Sam Scimemi, director of the ISS program at NASA, noted the project […] More

Northrop Grumman‘s Synoptics subsidiary unveiled its new titanium-doped sapphire offering, which is designed for use as material in short-pulsed laser devices, at the Laser World of Photonics event from June 22 to 25. Kevin Stevens, director for research and development of crystal growth at Synoptics, said in a statement released Monday that the Ti:Sapphire material works with lasers that have a wide tunability range. Northrop said […] More

Digital Reasoning has created a computer system that works to simulate the human brain to collect and process data. The company said Monday it used 160 billion parameters to train the neural network, which has achieved an accuracy rate of nearly 86 percent in identifying word analogies. “We are extremely proud of the results we have […] More

BAE Systems has teamed up with Saab Australia as it works to pursue its joint bid with Finland-based Patria for Australia’s armored vehicle program. Saab Australia will work to provide subsystems and related support services under a memorandum of understanding with BAE Systems for the proposed Land 400 Phase 2 platform, which aims to develop […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has provided laser frequency stabilization reference flight units to NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in support of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On space mission. The company said Thursday the flight units of the GRACE Follow-On spacecraft’s Laser Ranging Interferometer payload works to facilitate increased accuracy of measurement changes in Earth’s water resources. Ball Aerospace delivered […] More

Orbital ATK has been awarded a five-year, $25 million contract to engineer and repair the munitions tester and reprogrammer system of the U.S. Air Force and foreign military sales clients. The company will also perform technical and logistics services for the automated test systems division within the Agile Combat Support Directorate at Robins Air Force Base […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed initial on-orbit validation tests of its upgraded XR-5 Hall Thruster using Boeing‘s X-37 unmanned space plane as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Orbital Test Vehicle mission 4. The five-kilowatt XR-5A Hall Thruster includes performance and operating range modifications based on the results of XR-5’s initial low-rate production and flight programs, Aerojet Rocketdyne said July 1. […] More

Red Hat has begun to offer the Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA platform on the Amazon Web Services marketplace in a move to help clients deploy big data workloads. Customers will have an additional option to process data analytics tasks with the listing of the open source service on AWS, Red Hat said Wednesday. “The addition […] More

Austal has started final assembly work on a new Littoral Combat Ship under a $3.5 billion, 10-ship contract awarded by the U.S. Navy in 2010. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) served as the sponsor for the fifth Independence-class USS Manchester (LCS 14) during the keel-laying ceremony held Monday at Austal’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, the company said Tuesday. Austal […] More

The applied research organization of Vencore has been awarded a $4.8 million second-phase contract to continue its work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on defenses for networking and data link layers of wireless networks. Vencore Labs will apply the technologies developed during phase one of the Wireless Network Defense program to disparate U.S. military wireless networks, Vencore said […] More

A subsidiary of Elbit Systems will support the Smart Vest joint soldier modernization program of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg under a five-year, $150 million prime contract with the Dutch defense ministry. The company said Thursday Elbit Systems Land and C4I will supply digital soldier systems that work to bolster safety, survivability, effectiveness and other capabilities in the […] More

Rockwell Collins and GPS Source have test-fitted a global positioning system receiver card in a Defense Advanced GPS Receiver Distributed Device. The military-code ground-based GPS receiver application module is designed to track and navigate with the C/A, Y and M-code, Rockwell Collins said June 22. “This demonstration paves the way for the D3 to incorporate the […] More