Microsoft received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program high authorization on Thursday for its Azure OpenAI service. The FedRAMP authorization allows the government to integrate ChatGPT, DALL-E and other language models into their cloud applications for tasks like natural language-to-code translation, semantic search, content generation and other tasks. According to Microsoft, data used within […]
BAE Systems and Parsons Corp. will partner to modernize the Holston Army Ammunition Plant. The Holston Army Ammunition Plant is a 5,980-acre site that performs munitions explosives production, organic solvent recrystallization and purification, explosives research and development and other weapons-related work. It was established in 1942 and remained in operation until 1945. It was then […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate’s Catalyst Accelerator has selected six companies for its 12th cohort, which focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for space and maritime applications. According to the Catalyst Accelerator, the #CAAML cohort, the first joint accelerator between the U.S. Space Force and the U.S. Navy, will be […]
The Department of Energy has awarded $11.7 million in funding to six quantum computing projects centered on computational science. The six projects study the limitations of intermediate-scale quantum processors and aim to develop tools allowing researchers to determine if a quantum processor is adequate to advance computational science even without a formal error correction on […]
The U.S. Fleet Forces Command has awarded CACI a five-year, $209 million prime contract for global logistics and technical training support for Naval Forces Logistics. Under the contract, CACI will provide mission software and modern capabilities to support cross-domain military operations. Work under the contract will ensure that Navy personnel will have access to analysis […]
Columbia University New York has secured a potential $30 million contract to operate the Socioeconomic Data and Application Center. SEDAC is a distributed active archive center operated by Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network. It synthesizes Earth science and socioeconomic data and information to help decision-makers and other users identify issues and […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corp. an expanded contract for continued heterogeneous sensing network technologies and capabilities development. Under the contract, Sarcos will continue developing a collaborative sensing solution allowing Department of Defense agencies to quickly and accurately identify, track and classify time-critical objects autonomously and heterogeneously. The company […]
BWX Technologies will work with Lockheed Martin to create a nuclear thermal propulsion system and its fuel for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations project. BWXT Advanced Technologies and Lockheed will complete the final design of the DRACO vehicle’s nuclear reactor. BWXT will also manufacture the reactor’s hardware and […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $15 million contract to deliver its modernized AN/UPX-50(C) Digital Interrogator. The AN/UPX-50(C) will provide high-performance, multi-function identification friend or foe solutions for air defense, weapon systems, air traffic control and range instrumentation. It will also provide encrypted data exchange and automatic dependent surveillance for enhanced situational awareness. […]
The Artemis launch team at NASA engaged in an exercise on July 20 where they simulated the loading of cryogenic rocket propellant onto the Space Launch System. During the actual launch, the process would begin nine hours before liftoff because the fuels — liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen — are super-cooled and need to be […]
