Four companies were selected to help the Army develop lightweight power and energy solutions that soldiers can carry on foot during extended operations with minimal discomfort. The Army Futures Command, through its Army Applications Lab, chose Epirus, Resonant Link, Spark Thermionics and Xerion Advanced Battery to produce new kinds of batteries for the service under […]
The Department of the Air Force has appointed Joe Chapa as chief responsible artificial intelligence ethics officer. He has been with the Air Force since August 2020. Chapa is experienced in military ethics and remote warfare. He most recently served as the team leader on the Air Staff’s AI Cross-Functional Team and was a staff […]
Northrop Grumman announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency through its Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance program to develop a prototype artificial intelligence assistant. The requirement is for a prototype to be embedded in an augmented reality headset to help rotary pilots perform expected and unexpected tasks, Northrop said […]
Army. Maj. Gen. Garrett Yee is scheduled to step down from his role as assistant to the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency. According to his DISA profile, Yee leads an 8,000-strong organization of professionals tasked with delivering command and control capabilities and operating a global enterprise infrastructure in support of military leaders. Yee’s […]
The Department of Defense will launch a new open stack 5G challenge in February to give industry members a chance to develop technologies that can be integrated into future testbeds. Amanda Toman, acting principal for 5G at the Pentagon, said during the Potomac Officers Club’s eighth annual Defense Research and Development Summit that the initiative […]
California-headquartered Zoic Labs on Thursday announced that it has partnered with the Defense Intelligence Agency‘s Future Capabilities and Innovation Office to satisfy Machine-Assisted Analytic Rapid-Repository System requirements for visualization capabilities, big data, data management and analytics. The new contract will draw upon Zoic Labs’ depth of experience in interactive data visualization with a compelling visual […]
The Air Force has awarded drone software developer Shield AI a contract to fast-track the integration of its artificial intelligence pilot into various military platforms. Shield AI said it received the highest amount that can be awarded under the Air Force’s AFWERX Strategic Funding Increase program. AFWERX is a program office tasked with supporting innovative […]
L3Harris Technologies has won a competitive 10-year, $750 million single-award indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery contract from the U.S. Marine Corps for multi-channel handheld and vehicular radio systems. Specifically, the Marines have selected the Falcon IV family of manpack and handheld radios, which already enjoys widespread acceptance in the Army, Special Operations Command, Air Force and a growing number […]
The Universities Space Research Association, a nonprofit organization under the National Academy of Sciences, has launched the second phase of its quantum computing project with the Department of Defense. Under the terms of a new award, USRA will continue working on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Optimization with Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices program. […]
Seattle-based Stratolaunch announced that it has been awarded a research contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The contract, which will be carried out in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton, calls for the examination and assessment of the feasibility of hypersonic flight tests of a wide range of Air Force experiments and payloads on a […]
