Modern voice solutions have an important contribution to the various technologies that first responders use to share information, according to Stacy Schwartz, RingCentral’s vice president of U.S. public sector and education. Schwartz cited a United Nations finding that platforms like early SMS hurricane warnings can result in up to 30 percent reduction in fatalities. According […]
The U.S. Space Force needs $1.1 billion and the U.S. Space Command $1.2 billion to counter Chinese and Russian threats on U.S. satellites, which are priority items left unfunded in the Department of Defense’s fiscal year 2025 budget, according to Gen. Stephen Whiting, SPACECOM commander. Whiting, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and 2024 Wash100 […]
Developing international alliances on securing artificial intelligence use is among the goals that the new U.S. AI Safety Institute is pursuing, according to Elizabeth Kelly, the institute’s inaugural director. The body, which was established under the National Institute of Standards and Technology in February, is working with countries that have their own AI safety agencies, […]
The Department of Defense has an opportunity to harness private industry’s remote-sensing constellations investment for Ground Moving Target Indication technology, according to Industry executives who joined the Satellite 2024 conference held from March 18 to 21 in Washington, D.C. In search of GMTI capability, the U.S. Air Force and the Space Force have tapped the National […]
RTX announced that the fiscal year 2024 U.S. defense budget includes the full $497 million funding for its Pratt & Whitney business unit to modernize the F-35 jetfighters’ F135 engines. The modernization aims to boost engine durability and maximize the F-35’s Block 4 capabilities as a stealthy and configurable jetfighter by 2029. The current global […]
Airbus will develop and build a twin spacecraft for the continuance of the joint space mission of NASA and the German Space Agency geared at monitoring the Earth’s gravity field and climate. The Pasadena, California-based NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory awarded the task for the mission called GRACE-C, which stands for Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment-Continuity. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the appointment of Kevin Stine as the new director of its Information Technology Laboratory tasked with cultivating IT trust through analysis, testing and standardization. Undersecretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Laurie Locascio acknowledged the “wealth of experience” that Stine brings to his […]
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit has tapped Fireplace Aerospace for a trade study on the rapid launch capabilities of the company’s Elytra spacecraft to support missions beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit, or xGEO. The study is part of the DIU’s Sinequone project to prototype commercial launch and orbital transfer capabilities in xGEO where the agency foresees […]
Austin, Texas-based thermal cooling technology firm Accelsius has announced a partnership agreement pairing its direct-to-chip liquid cooling system, NeuCool, with Equus Compute Solutions’ data center support services. The technical and customer services that the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Equus offers include server and rack integration and deployment and commissioning. According to Equus CEO Jay Lawrence, a 4×24 […]
LMI has acquired JJR Solutions, a technology company focused on health, well-being and security. Doug Wagoner, LMI CEO, a 4×24 member and a Wash100 awardee, pointed out that LMI’s acquisition of the Dayton, Ohio-based company reinforces “our commitment to provide rapid, innovative, human-centered design solutions for our customers.” Established in 2009, JJR Solutions has built […]
