Brig. Gen. Luke Peterson, U.S. Army program executive officer for combat support and combat service support, has shared that the Autonomous Vehicle Transport-System will proceed with development. Speaking at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Conference, he explained that it could protect soldiers by reducing opportunities for enemies to target them. Kyle Bruner, […]
U.S. Army Gen. James Dickinson, commander of U.S. Space Command, discussed ongoing efforts to increase the number of space situational awareness data-sharing agreements with allied countries and the commercial and education sectors. He told attendees of the third annual SPACECOM Legal Conference in Colorado that 169 such partnerships are currently being maintained, of which 129 […]
Business Mission Edge has received a potential four-year U.S. Army Human Resources Command Information Technology Infrastructure Support 3 contract to provide various information technology services for recruitment, accessioning, training, deployment and other missions. BME is tasked with providing operational and maintenance support for data centers, networks, servers, cloud hosting, software, desktop computers and mobile devices, […]
Aeyon has received a five-year, $18.5 million contract to implement robotic process automation for Project Manager Integrated Visual Augmentation System, a component of U.S. Army Program Executive Office Soldier. PM IVAS is in charge of delivering a mixed reality headset meant to facilitate real-time situational awareness, threat detection and response, tactical planning, networked information sharing […]
The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute will invest approximately $7.9 million in 11 technology projects meant to advance adaptive real-time path planning and control, human action and intention prediction, robot learning, virtual masking for advanced coating and other areas of interest. The efforts are being undertaken by teams of industry firms and academic institutions. Chuck […]
Maxar Technologies has received phase 3b of the other transaction agreement contract to develop the One World Terrain prototype for the U.S. Army. The Westminster, Colorado-based company will undertake further processing of geospatial images and the geo-registration of the Army’s existing terrain datasets. Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of public sector earth […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Peraton Labs a contract to develop Adaptive Control with Artificial Intelligence, a machine-learning capability that would enable ground and maritime vehicles, drone swarms and robotic systems to adjust to unexpected events or environmental conditions in real time. Peraton said in a press release that ACAI would utilize […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to conduct two workshops in 2023, aiming to convene academic, commercial and government experts to foster discussions on developing trustworthy artificial intelligence for national security purposes. DARPA’s Information Innovation Office will host a virtual workshop from June 13 to 16 and an in-person workshop in Boston, Massachusetts, from […]
John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, could issue new cloud security measures after Microsoft Azure-hosted emails containing sensitive military data were found to have been publicly accessible online for two weeks. Cmdr. Jessica McNulty, a DOD spokesperson, emailed DefenseScoop Thursday revealing that the server containing the […]
Gen. David Allvin, U.S. Air Force vice chief of staff, and Gen. David Thompson, U.S. Space Force vice chief of space operations, signed a memorandum of agreement Thursday to establish the Space Test Course, a one-year program aimed at teaching warfighters how to conduct full-spectrum testing and evaluation of space mission systems and equipment. The […]
