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Raytheon Awarded $80M US Navy Contract to Upgrade Super Hornet’s Electronic Warfare Capability

RTX business Raytheon has secured an $80 million U.S. Navy contract to develop an advanced electronic warfare prototype for the fighter aircraft F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, the mainstay of the service’s carrier air wing.  According to RTX, Raytheon’s prototyping will focus on modifying current electronic warfare solutions to include fewer components and integrate government-prescribed open architecture. […]
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Education Department Engages Generative AI Vendors in Technology Deployment Moves

The Department of Education is moving forward on investing in artificial intelligence, with vendor community engagement on enterprise generative AI among the department’s technology development efforts. An ED spokesperson confirmed to FedScoop the department’s conditional approval of public generative AI but added that the technology is not yet used within the agency. The recent public […]
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DOD Issues Call for FY 2024 Microelectronics Commons Projects, Provides $280M Total Awards

The Department of Defense announced a call for projects for the Microelectronics Commons’ fiscal year 2024, allocating up to $280 million in funding to support the CHIPS and Science Act and President Joe Biden’s Investing in America program. The call covers the eight Commons regional hubs that  Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced in […]
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NSF Reveals New Guidelines on Generative AI Use in Merit Review for Research Proposals

The National Science Foundation has issued a notice informing the research community of new generative artificial intelligence guidelines for reviewers and proposers to protect the integrity of proposals and their evaluation in the NSF merit review process.  The new review procedure disallows NSF reviewers from uploading any proposal content, review records and related information to […]
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New Orbiting Space Force Sensors Start Feeding Intel Changing Views on Certain Foreign Orbital Activities

The three new sensors in geosynchronous Earth orbit that the U.S. Space Force launched in January are now operational and have collected potential threats “changing the intelligence estimate on certain foreign capabilities,” Kelly Hammett, Space Rapid Capabilities Office director, said.  Hammett did not provide additional details, but told reporters at the inaugural Spacepower conference in […]
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New DOE Artificial Intelligence Hub to Harness AI in Daily PNNL Activities

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will deploy artificial intelligence in its daily operations through its newly created Center for AI @PNNL, which is tasked to coordinate scientific research on science, security and energy resilience. According to PNNL, the center’s focus areas include AI use in autonomous experimentation, enabling robotic activity in analyzing […]
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Kodak Alaris Taps Carahsoft to Provide Government Customers With Information Management Solutions

Kodak Alaris has entered into a master government aggregator partnership agreement with Carahsoft Technology, making Kodak Alaris’ data capture and workflow automation solutions available to government customers.  Under the agreement, Kodak Alaris’ offerings will be distributed through Carahsoft’s reseller partners and government contracting systems, such as the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V and the […]
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