The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Space Commerce has announced that it is placing in the Global Data Marketplace a new commercial space situational awareness data supply contract under its Consolidated Pathfinder partnership project with NASA. Launched in January, the project requires SSA data monitoring services to support the OSC’s Traffic Coordinator System […]
The Department of the Navy has formed the Maritime Economic Deterrence Executive Council to help protect the Navy’s commercial partners and vendors from adversarial foreign investments. MEDEC’s overall mandate, which Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced at an Aspen Institute event in New York, also includes protecting the supply chain, technology and innovation, as well […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is scheduled to start in early 2024 a research project on the use of atomic layer deposition for manufacturing microchips using a process that consumes 50 times less energy than current chips. According to Argonne, the research, which is set for two and a half years, has […]
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks has announced that the Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office will continue the accelerated Global Information Dominance Experiments in 2024 to advance further the DOD’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept. Speaking at the Defense Data and AI Symposium in Washington on Thursday, Hicks, a past […]
Ensuring that Department of Defense business opportunities are more accessible to small businesses is one of the steps that the DOD is looking into toward implementing its National Defense Industrial Strategy launched in January, a Pentagon official said. Speaking at a Washington Technology event on Friday, Danielle Miller, the defense secretary’s acting deputy assistant for […]
Two dozen U.S. allies joined the U.S. Space Command’s Global Sentinel collaboration exercise on space-based security and defense held at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, from Feb. 5 to 16. The event, which was initiated in 2014 with seven countries in attendance, kicked off in 2024 with 246 participants, including 177 representatives of U.S. […]
Two dozen U.S. allies joined the U.S. Space Command’s Global Sentinel collaboration exercise on space-based security and defense held at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, from Feb. 5 to 16. The event, which was initiated in 2014 with seven countries in attendance, kicked off in 2024 with 246 participants, including 177 representatives of U.S. […]
The Federal Trade Commission is soliciting public comments on its new proposed rules to protect consumers from malicious artificial intelligence-generated government and business impersonation tactics. The new proposals would add protections to the consumer safeguards that the FTC earlier lined up in its notice of proposed rulemaking issued in October 2022. The proposed rules for […]
Eric Hysen, the Department of Homeland Security’s chief information officer and chief AI officer, expects the agency’s program to hire 50 artificial intelligence experts in 2024 to be “a major draw” for talents, even as the private sector provides higher pay to them. The DHS jobs, with annual pay ranging from $123,000 to $191,900, offer […]
Santa Rosa, California-based software solutions company Keysight Technologies has announced its membership in the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium, officially launched by the National Institute of Science and Technology on Feb. 8. to help create standards for trustworthy AI technologies. The company emphasized that besides AISIC, it also partners with other industry stakeholders to grow […]
