Frank Calvelli, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition and integration, clarified on Friday that the U.S. Space Force does not utilize the fixed-price model for all programs. Fixed-price contracts require that industry pay for unexpected development costs instead of the government, C4ISRNET reported Saturday. Speaking at a Center for Strategic and […]
Space situational awareness company LeoLabs has announced that former Maxar Technologies executive Tony Frazier will serve as its new CEO. Frazier, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and Wash100 winner, will lead ongoing efforts to grow a presence in next-generation space safety systems and combined military space operations, LeoLabs said. He said in a […]
Defense companies and U.S. allies are calling for a faster and more transparent approval process for foreign military sales. Total FMS rose from $51.9 billion in fiscal year 2022 to $80.9 billion in FY2023, a 55.9 percent rise year on year, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Aerospace Industries Association CEO Eric Fanning suggested that modernization efforts […]
California-based aviation software company Beacon AI has announced a Phase 2 prototype other transaction authority agreement from the U.S. Special Operations Command to enhance its artificial intelligence copilot assistant. The upgrades will optimize aircraft operations and improve route selection, Beacon said Thursday. The assistant is intended to support situational awareness and mission execution by providing […]
The 16th Air Force has partnered with the Poland Cyber Command, a Polish Armed Forces organization dedicated to advanced information and cryptographic capabilities. Led by Lt. Gen. Kevin Kennedy, the U.S. Air Force unit is responsible for information warfare and cryptologic activities, DVIDS reported Friday. The Poland Cyber Command and the 16th Air Force aim […]
Artificial intelligence software company Torch .AI has unveiled Nexus, an off-the-shelf data infrastructure solution to enable federal agencies to rapidly and autonomously process unstructured and multimodal data. Nexus will reduce the $143 billion spent annually on information collection, including over $37.8 billion in manual data processing costs, Torch .AI said Thursday. The company announced multiple […]
Intuitive Machines has landed the first privately made spacecraft on the moon. The Odysseus Nova-C lander is also the first U.S. spacecraft on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. It descended somewhere in the moon’s south polar regions as part of the IM-1 mission, SpaceNews reported Friday. The lander received a patch that enables […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is working on governance to support responsible artificial intelligence use throughout the intelligence community. Michaela Mesquite, acting chief of ODNI’s Augmenting Intelligence using Machines group, said the policy is meant to ensure transparency, DefenseScoop reported. The governance is expected to build on an AI ethics framework she […]
The U.S. Coast Guard has received the authority to control the movement of ships that pose potential cyberthreats. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that also empowers the Coast Guard to inspect vessels and waterfront infrastructure and enforce a baseline cyber standard for maritime facilities, CyberScoop reported Wednesday. Sector entities are required […]
Long Beach, California-based Rocket Lab USA has announced that it will conduct a dedicated mission for the National Reconnaissance Office within a launch window starting on March 20. Named “Live and Let Fly”, NROL-123 will take place at Launch Complex 2, a dedicated Electron rocket pad within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Rocket Lab […]
