Space industry experts highlighted the need to enhance the security of space systems during a summit on Tuesday, given the reliance of critical infrastructure on satellite services. Sam Visner, a tech fellow at The Aerospace Corp., said finance, energy, oil and gas, transportation, health care and agriculture are among the major sectors depending on space-based […]
Five teams of security researchers will participate in the final round of the fourth Hack-A-Sat competition, during which they will launch cyberattacks targeting a newly deployed 3U cubesat, dubbed Moonlighter, which serves as a hacking sandbox in space. A SpaceX rocket launched the satellite on June 5 to the International Space Station. The ISS deployed […]
The U.S. Marine Corps intends to issue a solicitation for new non-kinetic weapons that can defeat swarms of cheap enemy drones and other hostile unmanned aerial systems. The request for proposals for the Marine Air Defense Integrated System Increment 1 Block 2 is expected to be released by the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023, […]
Greg Little is set to leave his role as the Department of Defense’s inaugural deputy chief digital and artificial intelligence officer for enterprise platforms and business optimization at the end of July. A spokesperson for the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has confirmed that Little, who will speak at the Potomac Officers Club’s Integrating […]
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense and a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, recently visited Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Hawaii and discussed the Department of Defense’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan, which includes building a new $3.6 billion dry dock that can support the repair and maintenance of Virginia-class and future […]
Google and IBM have urged the government to adopt a pro-innovation approach to AI regulation in response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s public consultation. The OSTP launched the consultation in May to gather feedback from the industry on the potential impacts of AI on national security and identify measures that could be […]
New Los Alamos National Laboratory research found that a quantum neural network can be trained using a small amount of simple data, paving the way for less complex machine learning on quantum computers. Authors of the paper include researchers from LANL, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany. Existing quantum computers use long circuits that produce […]
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. has secured a contract for the third and final phase of LongShot, a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency program aiming to build drones that can shoot down enemy aircraft. The unmanned aerial vehicles, being built with the capability to fire multiple air-to-air munitions, will be launched from manned aircraft, enabling […]
The Washington Headquarters Services is conducting market research to determine the availability of small businesses capable of providing cybersecurity assessments and engineering services for the Raven Rock Mountain Complex’s facility-related control systems. The services will also support other networks essential to the protection and availability of FRCS such as power generation, uninterrupted power systems and […]
The Space Development Agency has posted a draft solicitation for purchasing and deploying eight prototype satellites for the Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter program of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, formerly known as the National Defense Space Architecture. Each FOO Fighter spacecraft will carry electro-optical/infrared sensors to demonstrate detection, warning, tracking and advanced defense capability against […]
