The Department of Energy has released $264 million in grants to 29 projects focusing on clean energy technology advancements. The funding will support 11 new Energy Earthshots research centers led by DOE national laboratories and 18 university research teams participating in the Energy Earthshots initiative. Their goal is to advance clean energy technologies and address […]
SpaceX will use its Falcon 9 rocket to launch NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance mission. The TRACERS mission will use a pair of small spinning satellites that will study magnetic reconnection in the Earth’s magnetopause region. The satellites will look at the implications of magnetic reconnection on space crew and sensitive satellites. Magnetic […]
The Government Accountability Office is experimenting with an artificial intelligence model that could automate report queries and information retrieval. Taka Ariga, the oversight body’s chief data scientist and the director of the GAO Innovation Lab, said the agency’s goal for its AI model work is to establish a foundational large language model that would be […]
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has awarded CGI Federal a 10-year contract for financial management solutions and consulting services. CGI Federal also secured a potential 10-year, $143 million operations and maintenance, service desk support and training service task order. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, CGI Federal will provide strategic consulting, advisory, application operations and […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Raytheon a four-year, $80 million task order for water resources prediction capabilities modernization. The RTX business will work with the National Weather Service to enhance the Next Generation Water Model Framework, Flood Inundation Mapping and Enterprise Hydrofabric Solution. Shawn Miller, technical director of civil and autonomous vehicle […]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded quantum computing company IonQ a $25.5 million deal to support quantum networking research and application development. IonQ will deploy two barium-based trapped ion quantum computing systems at AFRL’s New York location, enhancing the laboratory’s research mission. IonQ offers the Harmony, Aria and Forte trapped-ion computers, which feature […]
The National Security Agency and other U.S. and Japanese security agencies have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory on the activities of Chinese cyber actors that exploit gaps in router firmware to cause damages. According to the “People’s Republic of China-Linked Cyber Actors Hide in Router Firmware” advisory, BlackTech cyber actors modify router firmware without being […]
Mynaric announced that it has completed optical verification and phase 1 interoperability tests for the CONDOR Mk3 optical communications terminals, which will be integrated into Northrop Grumman-built satellites built for the Space Development Agency. During the optical verification tests, Mynaric confirmed CONDOR Mk3’s pointing, data acquisition and tracking abilities. Phase 1 interoperability tests focused on […]
Booz Allen Hamilton and Red Hat have secured a potential five-year, $2 million U.S. Army contract to support Project Linchpin. According to the Army, the contractors will support research pertaining to Project Linchpin’s “Traceability, Observability, Replaceability and Consumability” framework. The framework promotes model and data integrity and openness, as well as a modular open system […]
Carahsoft Technology announced that it has entered into a Master Government Aggregator partnership with enterprise artificial intelligence platform provider Domino Data Lab to provide solutions to the government. Under the partnership, Carahsoft will use its reseller partners and government contracting vehicles to offer Domino’s enterprise AI platform to government agencies. Using Domino’s platform, customers can […]
