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Space Force to Use NOAA Antennas as Satellite Control Network Exceeds Capacity Threshold

The U.S. Space Force has partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to use the latter’s antennas to support military satellites, including the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program constellation. According to a recent Government Accountability Office report, the number of satellites being supported by the Space Force’s primary ground segment, called Satellite Control Network, has […]
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UiPath, Peraton Team Up to Offer Cloud-based Automation Platform to Federal Agencies

UiPath has partnered with Peraton to provide U.S. intelligence, defense and civilian agencies with its cloud-based automation platform, which combines a robotic process automation solution and other capabilities to understand, automate and operate end-to-end processes. The collaboration with Peraton will allow deploying the artificial intelligence-powered platform in sensitive environments as a managed service through the […]
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State Department Plans to Strengthen Global Semiconductor Partnerships Using CHIPS Act Funding

Ramin Toloui, assistant secretary for the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the Department of State, said the agency is planning to use part of the $500 million funding provided under the CHIPS and Science Act to strengthen partnerships with allies and key partners manufacturing semiconductors overseas through policy dialogues. The United States aims […]
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IARPA Awards R&D Contract to L3Harris to Model Human Mobility

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has selected L3Harris Technologies to provide technology and perform modeling and simulation studies aimed at enabling future autonomous systems to characterize and predict human mobility. IARPA awarded L3Harris a contract to support the Hidden Activity Signal and Trajectory Anomaly Characterization program’s first phase. As part of the modeling and […]
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Umbra Satellites to Support DARPA Digital Radar Image Formation Technology Program

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will use data from at least two Umbra synthetic aperture radar satellites to enable the development of innovative processing algorithms for advancing U.S. radar capabilities. Umbra has six satellites in orbit equipped with SAR payloads capable of capturing high-resolution radar images during day and night and through dense cloud […]
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Amentum Wins $70M Contract to Support NSWC Crane’s Hypersonic, Sensor Improvement Efforts

Amentum will provide Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division’s Strategic Systems Hardware Division with research and development, analysis, testing, technology transfer, and systems engineering services in support of missions focused on assessing and enhancing hypersonics, undersea sensors and advanced materials. Work will be performed under a potential five-year, $70 million contract awarded through the Department […]
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Air Force Selects RII to Provide Software for Information Environment C2 Under $54M Contract

Research Innovations Inc. has secured a $54 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide the service with software tools for the Command and Control of the Information Environment program.  According to a Department of Defense announcement, work involves developing software that can deliver artificial intelligence-enabled C2, situational awareness and data analytics […]
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