Thirteen research projects have been selected for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts’ 2024 Phase I program, with the awardees’ focus ranging from planetary exploration to a star-bound journey of a swarm of communication spacecraft. The 2024 NIAC fellows are companies and institutions from across the United States, with each awardee receiving a $175,000 grant to […]
SpaceWERX, the Space Force’s technology unit, is seeking proposals from small businesses on American space launch sites’ information systems modernization. The project, dubbed Digital Spaceport of the Future Challenge, is open to U.S.-based companies with 500 employees or less, with proposals submitted through the Department of Defense’s Small Business Innovation Research website. SpaceWERX is collaborating […]
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has appointed Theodore Kaouk as chief data officer and Data Division director. According to the CFTC, Kaouk will lead its data integration efforts and support the commission’s office and divisions in providing informed policy decisions. He will work with the agency’s newly named first chief data scientist, John Coughlan. Before […]
Galorath, a Long Beach, California-based software and hardware consultancy company, has appointed three new members to its leadership team to support its global expansion and entry into new market segments. The new appointees include Matt McDonald, former Enterprise Knowledge chief growth officer, who was named as Galorath Services president and Galorath vice president. Also appointed […]
The U.S. Air Force’s Life Cycle Management Center has awarded Viasat a position on a potential $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide systems, hardware, software and cybersecurity solutions to the U.S. Air Force. Viasat was selected for each of the contract’s three categories: development planning, systems development and synthetic environment development. The company will work […]
Several NASA projects scheduled in 2024, led by the Artemis II lunar fly-by mission, are geared to create new space exploration milestones, according to a CNN report. Programmed for a November mission, Artemis II’s four astronauts will include the first woman on a lunar voyage. They will circumnavigate the moon preparatory to Artemis III’s planned […]
Erik Raven, U.S. Department of the Navy undersecretary, said 30 Royal Australian Navy sailors will join the U.S. Navy’s first submarine maintenance deployment in Australia in the summer of 2024, as part of the RAN’s nuclear submarine acquisition plan under the trilateral AUKUS alliance, which also includes the United Kingdom. The U.S. Navy team will […]
Artificial intelligence will significantly affect judicial work, particularly during case trials, Chief Justice John Roberts said in his 2023 year-end report released on Sunday. Roberts acknowledged that AI can potentially make the courts more accessible to people with less money “to smooth out any mismatch between available resources and urgent needs in our court system.” […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has selected Decision Lens to provide a continuous, automated solution as a replacement for its manual, forms-based surveys. The new system is designed for role-specific surveys and fosters enterprise decision management with more time available for data analysis and real-time delivery of outputs, Decision Lens disclosed. […]
The U.S. Air Force has published Air Force Doctrine Publication 3-85, Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, which implements changes in the EMS operational environment. An update to AFDP 3-51, Electromagnetic Warfare and Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, issued in 2019, the document introduces newer concepts and terminologies to keep pace with adversaries’ advancing capabilities and enhance U.S. superiority on […]
