The Department of Energy has awarded seven teams a total of $29 million in funding for fusion and plasma energy research. The teams, comprising 19 institutions, will research artificial intelligence, machine learning, diagnostic data analysis, model extraction and reduction, plasma control, extreme-scale simulation data and data-enhanced prediction related to fusion and plasma sciences. Awardees will […]
The Department of the Air Force is seeking technologies that support artificial intelligence and distributed command and control capabilities. According to a DAF broad agency announcement, white papers about AI systems command and control; federated, composable autonomy and AI toolboxes; advanced wargaming agents; interactive learning for C4I; generative AI for C4I; software-defined, distributed C2; and […]
The Los Alamos National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have installed the Crossroads supercomputer at the laboratory’s Strategic Computing Complex. Irene Qualters, associate director for simulation and computation at LANL, said Crossroads will deliver up to eight times better performance than the Trinity supercomputer, which has been at the lab since 2015. The National Nuclear […]
The IBM Federal HR Cloud has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization, allowing government users to continue benefiting from the solution. The IBM Federal HR Cloud, introduced in 2013, offers payroll, benefits administration, performance management and other human resource capabilities to federal agencies. IBM continuously updates the solution to include new features […]
Lockheed Martin has delivered to the U.S. Marine Corps the final Phase 1 Initial Prototype variant of a 5G testbed designed to support communications network-related experimentation. The testbed variant of the Open Systems Interoperable and Reconfigurable Infrastructure Solution was delivered to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California where personnel will perform mobile network experimentation. […]
U.S. Space Force officials said talks have been underway since early 2023 for the service to establish a formal component within the U.S. Cyber Command. Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear, said officials are working to determine how a partnership with CYBERCOM would look in the future […]
NASA has awarded four contracts worth about $19 million in total to conduct the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Sounder for Microwave-Based Applications Phase-A study. Ball Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire Global Subsidiary received a one-year contract each to study and design SMBA formulation activities. SMBA instruments, part of NOAA’s Near-Earth Orbit […]
Rapid Response Defense Systems has selected the electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle provider Quantum-Systems Inc. as a subcontractor for a $30 million Department of State indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for mid-range unmanned aircraft systems. The two companies will deliver the Vector fixed-wing eVTOL UAS and provide operator training to end users. According to Quantum-Systems, Vector is […]
Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and 2023 Wash100 awardee Heidi Shyu will meet with Australian defense officials in September to talk about collaboration opportunities. Shyu, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said during the National Defense Industrial Association’s Emerging Technologies for Defense conference on Aug. 29 that the upcoming meeting will delve […]
The U.S. Copyright Office will seek insights on a future policy on issuing copyright protections for artificial intelligence-generated work. According to a Federal Register notice, the Copyright Office wants to know if generative AI application developers may ingest copyrighted material without prior compensation or permission. The office also wants to know how to handle AI-generated […]
