The CIA’s chief artificial intelligence officer said generative AI should be a key part of the agency’s operations but not replace humans. According to Lakshmi Raman, the CIA needs to augment AI training across the entire workforce so they understand how the technology can help them. She also said that the agency will use generative […]
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Logistics Management Institute a contract to help the government agency improve its research, development and analytics capabilities. Under the contract, LMI will provide its Financial and Inventory Simulation Model, deliver artificial intelligence and machine learning models and refresh data to allow the DLA to identify changes in business metrics. […]
The National Science Foundation has awarded six academic institutions a total of $16 million in funding for cybersecurity training and cyber workforce improvements. Through the CyberCorps Scholarships for Service grants, the awardees will invest in artificial intelligence, machine learning, hardware security and other cybersecurity-related fields. The scholarships are designed to train the next generation of […]
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and Verizon have demonstrated various 5G streaming use cases under an ongoing strategic collaboration designed to support the Department of Defense’s sustainment missions and advance the 5G .MIL program. During the demo, the companies validated how 5G can be used for augmented, virtual and extended reality technologies; real-time 3D visualization and […]
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has awarded Amentum a $282.5 million contract to deliver biometric technologies supporting immigration application streamlining efforts at applicant support centers. Amentum will provide biometric solutions designed to improve applicant services at the point of need. It will also deliver proprietary training across the USCIS workforce to ensure a modernized, […]
NASA has sent a 15-second ultra-high-definition streaming video from Earth to a Deep Space Optical Communications payload some 19 million miles away using lasers. The demonstration, part of the two-year DSOC experimentation, involved NASA operators sending the video to the flight laser transceiver, a DSOC instrument installed on the Psyche spacecraft capable of sending and receiving near-infrared signals. Operators […]
Congress is urging the Missile Defense Agency to field hypersonic missile defense systems more quickly and reach initial operational capability before the end of the decade. Part of the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act is for MDA to reach IOC for the Glide Phase Interceptor by 2029, a few years earlier than the […]
Autonomous defense solutions provider DZYNE Technologies announced that it has won a $49 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for long-endurance program research and development. DZYNE offers long-endurance programs designed to improve autonomous flight technologies. The programs support ultra-long endurance missions beyond conventional autonomous flight duration and include the integration of artificial […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a cybersecurity advisory highlighting risks and vulnerabilities that faced the health care and public health sector in early 2023. According to the CSA, HPH organizations were open to vulnerabilities that could compromise data confidentiality, integrity and availability. CISA offered several recommendations to HPH and critical infrastructure organizations […]
The Intelligence Community will be asked to create a new agency responsible for identifying technologies and capabilities that can allow the organization to address mission needs. Under the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, the director of national intelligence is required to set up an “Intelligence Community Innovation Unit,” an organization akin to the Department of […]
