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All posts by: Noah Lowell

Official Unveils Draft NASA Plan to Continue Mars Exploration Following Sample Retrieval Mission

NASA has drafted a plan to explore Mars through a series of science and infrastructure-building missions to be undertaken by robots. Eric Ianson, Mars Exploration Program director, said the Exploring Mars Together strategy would begin after all launches take place for Mars Sample Return, an ongoing effort to collect particles from the planet’s surface and […]

Posted on April 3, 2023 by Noah Lowell

Department of Defense Officials Share Cloud Progress With Senate

Senators received updates on Wednesday regarding the Department of Defense’s progress on implementing cloud computing. Chief Information Officer John Sherman said at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s cybersecurity subcommittee that Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle are now offering enterprise cloud services to the DOD under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability. […]

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Noah Lowell

Labor Department Awards DMI Recompete Task Order for IT Support

The Department of Labor has awarded a recompete task order to Bethesda, Maryland-based DMI for information technology support to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a component responsible for tracking and disseminating various workforce metrics used to inform decision-making by the government and commercial firms. DMI is expected to deliver application development support to the Office […]

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Noah Lowell

Experts Say AI Will Play Key Role in Processing Data From Satellites

A panel at the recent Satellite 2023 conference brought together experts to talk about the implications of artificial intelligence on military space objectives. The discussion titled “How AI and Space Technologies Combine to Benefit the Critical Mission” dealt with using AI to enhance data analysis for decision-making. Charles Beames, executive chairman at SpiderOak and chairman […]

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Noah Lowell

US Navy Awards Raytheon $619M Contract to Produce More SPY-6 Radars

Raytheon Technologies will continue building AN/SPY-6(V) radars after the U.S. Navy exercised a $619 million option on a five-year contract worth a maximum of $3.2 billion. SPY-6 radars are meant to provide simultaneous defenses against missiles, ships and aircraft. Compared to older systems, they can detect farther, identify objects more accurately and have modular features, Raytheon […]

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Noah Lowell

Air Force Prioritizing AI Skills, Data Infrastructure to Meet 2025 Goals

The Department of the Air Force is working toward a 2025 artificial intelligence readiness target through workforce development programs and partnerships with commercial and academic organizations. Eileen Vidrine, DAF’s chief data and AI officer and a speaker at past Potomac Officers Club events, said achieving that goal will depend on airmen and U.S. Space Force […]

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Noah Lowell

US Army Tests BAE Systems Laser-Guided Counter-Drone Rockets

The U.S. Army’s Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office has completed an assessment of BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System laser-guidance kits against class-2 drones. During an exercise at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, the Department of Defense found that 70-millimeter APKWS rockets were 100 percent effective against drones weighing between 25 and 50 […]

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Noah Lowell

Cloud Cap Technology ISR Systems Added to AAR Market Portfolio

Collins Aerospace Mission Systems’ Cloud Cap Technology subsidiary has entered into a distribution agreement with aviation services firm AAR. The company is now authorized to market TASE and Piccolo, which are meant to provide imaging and flight management capabilities to manned and unmanned aerial systems used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. In a press […]

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Noah Lowell

Northrop Grumman-Shield AI Team Joins US Army Contest to Replace RQ-7B Shadow

The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract with a seven-week base period to participate in Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System Increment 2, a contest to replace the RQ-7B Shadow tactical unmanned aerial system. Northrop is teaming up with Shield AI, the developer of the V-BAT UAS. V-BAT is a reconnaissance drone designed to […]

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Noah Lowell

Installation of Kestrel Supercomputer Begins at National Renewable Energy Lab

The Department of Energy has started setting up the first phase of Kestrel, a high-performance computing system meant to support research on large-scale simulation and planning, continuum mechanics and other areas. Kestrel is expected to perform over five times faster than Eagle, the HPC being used by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. […]

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Noah Lowell

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