The Federal Aviation Administration has approved Airspace Link to provide its B4UFLY service to inform commercial and recreational drone pilots where their flights would be safe and allowed to operate. The free service, which the FAA started Thursday, is available via desktop and mobile applications, according to the agency’s B4UFLY website. The FAA has also […]
The Space Development Agency has awarded Momentus a contract modification to continue work on tailoring the company’s Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle to Department of Defense payloads and missions. According to John Rood, Momentus CEO, Vigoride offers flexibility, payload capacity and power suited for various national security missions, such as space situational awareness, surveillance and reconnaissance. […]
Herndon, Virginia-based professional and management services company Serco has secured a follow-on U.S. Air Force contract to manage and maintain the service branch’s IBM TRIRIGA software application, a task that Serco first won in 2019. The new contract provides a one-year base period and four one-year options for a $90 million total value, with all […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is drafting a generative artificial intelligence guidance, as current government playbooks do not fully prescribe the specific steps each agency should take, a CDC official said. Speaking at AFCEA Bethesda’s Health IT Summit 2024, Travis Hoppe, CDC associate director for data science and analytics, disclosed that the agency […]
San Diego-based General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems has secured a three-year contract from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to demonstrate a scalable, cost-effective manufacturing system for silicon carbide and SiC composite foam materials needed in advanced fusion power plants. SiC-based materials can withstand extreme conditions within a high-power fusion system, according to the […]
The Space Force’s Orbital Prime program for research studies on In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing is moving on to its next phase of possible commercialization of the technologies presented. The program had initially granted study contracts to more than 100 companies, which were shortlisted to 41 companies currently working under the program’s Phase 2 Small […]
Integrating AUKUS quantum technology research and development can expand the naval superiority of the military alliance of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States over China, particularly in submarine warfare, industry experts told Breaking Defense. The alliance’s cooperation in quantum science, as well as in artificial intelligence and robotics R&D, can lead to “a […]
Vienna, Virginia-based information technology services provider Alpha Omega Integration has secured a data stewardship contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information, a unit of the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service. Under the five-year contract worth up to $43 million, Alpha Omega will provide core tools, systems and […]
Federal agencies can significantly improve their network security through cross-agency partnerships, GovCIO Media and Research noted from statements of officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Aviation Administration. Speaking in an ATARC webinar, the officials agreed that they can collaborate more often, share learnings and […]
The Department of Defense is still on schedule with its Replicator program to deploy thousands of unmanned systems across multiple battlefields by early 2025, Aditi Kumar, the Defense Innovation Unit’s deputy director of strategy, policy and national security partnerships, said. The DIU is pinpointing all hurdles and working on the solutions to accelerate the Replicator’s […]
