The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Raytheon, an RTX business, a four-year, $15 million contract for radio frequency sensor technology enhancements. Raytheon will create improved high-power density, military-grade gallium nitride radio frequency transistors designed to deliver up to 16 times higher power output compared to traditional GaN transistors. Raytheon will work with the […]
NASA has sent and received data at a distance of nearly 10 million miles, marking the first time the agency transmitted lasers beyond the moon. Under the two-year Deep Space Optical Communications experiment, NASA scientists beamed a near-infrared laser from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Optical Communications Telescope Lab to the Psyche spacecraft. The DSOC payload […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has announced a pilot to explore how the voluntary delivery of cybersecurity shared services would benefit critical infrastructure operators. The pilot would extend CISA’s Protective Domain Name System Resolver to “target-rich, resource-poor” critical infrastructure entities. The Protective DNS Resolver, available only to federal civilian agencies prior to the pilot […]
Lockheed Martin is preparing to deliver its TPY-4 software-defined radar to the U.S. Air Force for evaluation. The development follows months of internal testing and modifications at Lockheed’s New York facilities. Steve Allen, program director for ground-based air surveillance at Lockheed, said the Air Force would push TPY-4 to the limit so officials would know […]
A National Security Council official said amendments to a presidential policy directive will focus on how critical infrastructure sector operators and federal agencies work with each other. Jonathan Murhpy, director of critical infrastructure cybersecurity at the NSC, said changes to Presidential Policy Directive 16 will highlight how federal agencies interact with the 16 sectors identified […]
Argonne National Laboratory said its new exascale computer is showing strong early performance numbers during its stabilization period. According to Argonne, the Aurora supercomputer achieved over 585 petaflops of computing power on 5,439 nodes, putting it among the top 500 strongest supercomputers in the world. Michael Papka, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, said […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Empower AI a $27 million task order for IT support services. Empower AI will provide network architecture and equipment optimization in support of the Army Transport Edge network infrastructure. The company will also deliver out-of-band management network support, a new network management system, migration services and legacy network integration services. […]
Northrop Grumman has concluded a critical design review for satellites that will be used for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, allowing the company to start producing the T1TRK satellites. Candace Givens, vice president of overhead persistent infrared and geospatial systems at Northrop, said the milestone puts the company closer to delivering missile defense […]
Burlington, Massachusetts-based biometric solutions provider Aware has partnered with the digital technology and business consultancy Serban Group to deliver biometric digital identity and authentication solutions. Craig Herman, chief revenue officer at Aware and a 4×24 member, said the partnership will enable the creation of advanced and secure biometric authentication technologies for the Latin American and […]
A Department of Defense official said during the Intel Public Sector Summit on Tuesday that artificial intelligence is helping military personnel improve their work. According to Margie Palmieri, deputy chief digital and AI officer at the Chief Digital and AI Office, combatant commanders have been using AI and other automation and digitization tools to make data-driven decisions under […]
