The U.S. Navy has tested a Sheild AI-made drone designed to provide manned and unmanned sea and air capabilities. During the Integrated Battle Program 23.1 exercise off the California coast, the service launched the V-BAT unmanned aerial vehicle from a Leidos Seahawk unmanned surface vehicle. Cmdr. Jerry Daley, the lead official of the Navy Unmanned […]
The Department of the Interior wants to use drones to help agencies across the United States respond to emergencies. According to the department, unmanned aerial systems can be called on a moment’s notice and could help emergency responders operate in austere conditions. The department seeks UAVs with vertical take-off and landing capabilities, electro-optical and infrared […]
The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned organizations about a critical vulnerability that allows unauthorized access to select versions of PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF printer software applications. According to a joint advisory warning, the PaperCut vulnerability allows ransomware actors to remotely execute codes against education facilities. The FBI also noted that […]
NASA has selected five research teams supporting future lunar explorations through sample analysis research and other scientific activities. The teams will work on projects under the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute. They will receive around $1.5 million annually and work with other SSERVI teams to maintain NASA’s lunar exploration leadership. The five teams […]
The National Science Foundation has awarded over $43 million in grants to 44 teams helping communities create economic, societal and technological opportunities for their communities. Under the NSF Regional Innovations Engines program, the NSF awarded recipients around $1 million each for two years. The recipients are working on various challenge areas, including artificial intelligence, high-performance […]
U.S. Army officials said a project introduced in December would help the service get a better sense of the work needed to successfully implement artificial intelligence solutions. Bharat Patel from the Army Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, said Project Linchpin would take standard AI and machine learning operations from the private […]
Cyber experts from the U.S. Cyber Command worked with their Latvian and Canadian counterparts in a three-month hunt forward operation in Latvia. During the operation, experts from CYBERCOM’s Cyber National Mission Force partnered with the Information Security Incident Response Institute of the Republic of Latvia and the Canadian Armed Forces to look for threats against […]
The Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Information Officer will lead all 5G activities across the agency from the start of the fiscal year 2024 as part of its modernization efforts. Speaking at a Defense Tech Week event, DOD CIO John Sherman, a 2023 Wash100 awardee and a speaker at the Potomac Officers Club’s […]
The U.S. Space Force is planning an exercise for the summer where guardians would focus on orbital warfare and issues facing space-based intelligence and command and control operations. Maj. Gen. Shawn Bratton, the commander of the Space Force Space Training and Readiness Command, said during a Center for Strategic and International Studies seminar that the […]
Boston-based software company Zapata Computing and L3Harris Technologies have delivered 30 quantum computing challenge scenarios to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help the government determine how the technology can support various use cases. The quantum scenario delivery is part of a $7.3 million DARPA contract that requires the companies to develop quantum computing […]
