The Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have established the Collaborative for Energy Resilience and Quantum Science, a new joint research project to tap Chattanooga’s energy and communications infrastructure for technological developments to upgrade the national power grid. Also designed to contribute to quantum technology commercialization, the project builds […]
The U.S. military’s cybersecurity officials are seeking ways to provide secure arrangements for small defense industry partners unable to afford cybersecurity tools and services required under the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, which is set to be implemented soon. According to Tony Plater, the Department of the Navy’s chief information security officer, providing […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory and the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have established the Empire State Quantum Network to boost the labs’ quantum communication and collaboration. Formed through a memorandum of understanding signed in December 2023, the labs’ initiative will explore near- and long-term quantum networking opportunities between AFRL’s Distributed Quantum Networking Testbed […]
The Department of Defense has issued a request for information on technologies that could be included in Thunderstorm 24-2, a field demonstration and experimentation event that will focus on new solutions for persistent sensors and related technologies. Sensors are critical in U.S. military branches’ operations, with the technologies’ capability for continuous and real-time environment monitoring […]
Northrop Grumman’s 20th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station is scheduled for launch on Jan. 29 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying over 200 payloads under ISS National Laboratory sponsorship. According to the ISS NL’s launch announcement, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, a mainstay in previous space station resupply […]
The U.S. Air Force’s fiscal year 2025 budget will focus on improving the integration between the service branch’s air and space elements and with others in the U.S. joint command, two USAF officials disclosed. The FY 2026 budget for integration capabilities “will ramp up even more,” Kristyn Jones, acting Air Force undersecretary, said at a Center […]
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force is implementing in 2024 a pilot program for a shared research infrastructure that will boost and democratize access to support resources vital for responsible artificial intelligence development. The National Science Foundation and 11 other federal agencies, as well as 25 private entities and nonprofit organizations, are supporting […]
White papers on potential lunar landing sites and the round-trip challenges of crewed Mars missions are among the updates in the 2023 Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review that NASA released on Tuesday. The roadmap on the solar system exploration for mankind’s benefit contains inputs from U.S. industry, academia and other stakeholders that the agency […]
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has launched Track 3 of the Remote Identity Validation Technology Demonstration challenge series initiated in December 2022. The series is a platform for private developers to demonstrate and evaluate systems for authenticating identification documents through the examination of their images generated from smartphones and similar devices. […]
The Department of Defense has directed Northrop Grumman to start low-rate manufacturing of the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, following the initial ground and flight tests of the warplane’s prototype, William LaPlante, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, said. The go-ahead was also granted based on the “mature plans for manufacturing” of the Northrop team, […]
