Penguin Computing has been awarded a $68 million contract to deliver supercomputer platforms to the Department of Defense. The contract was administered through the DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, Penguin Computing said Tuesday. Penguin Computing will install its TrueHPC high-performance computer at two of HPCMP’s four DOD Supercomputing Resource Centers: the Navy DSRC at […]
A partnership between the National Armaments Consortium and the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Indian Head Division has released a requirements document focused on prototype projects involving hypersonic weapons and other munitions. The partnership, called Naval Energetic Systems and Technologies, issued 57 statements of need on the projects, with the total volume of the solicitations expected […]
Col. Luis Lara, the Marine Corps Systems Command’s program manager for training systems, has made developing Force-on-Force Training Systems-Next one of his top priorities. The Marine Corps awarded the $128 million, single-award FoFTS-Next contract in June to Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab. According to the Marine Corps, the new capability will immerse trainees in […]
The Defense Digital Service plans to have its technologies for sensing and detecting small unmanned aerial systems transferred to the Air Force Research Laboratory by Sept. 30. According to a spokesperson from the DDS, the AFRL’s Negation of Improvised Non-State Joint Aerial System program will absorb the digital service’s drone-sensing capabilities, including its high-fidelity long-range […]
Researchers from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have met with Army personnel at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri to demonstrate lidar survey data collection capabilities. Lidar, which can produce high-resolution 3D maps using various data collection methods, has the potential to further improve the Army’s mapping technology, Fort Leonard Wood said Thursday. The Army expects lidar […]
The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet has formed a new task force focused on integrating artificial intelligence with new unmanned systems, the top officer of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command said. Christened Task Force 59, the new unit will pull technical experts along with outside advisers from offices like the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to test […]
Jared Summers, former chief digital officer and chief technology officer of oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil, has joined the U.S. Army’s 18th Airborne Corps to lead the unit’s technology efforts. The Airborne Corps hired Summers as CTO as part of an initiative dubbed Project Ridgway to modernize the Army’s operations. The industry veteran will serve […]
BlackSky Holdings has received a potential $30 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to monitor economic activities around the world. BlackSky provides a technology platform that supports real-time GEOINT and global monitoring. Work on the contract, which was competitively procured, will be executed over multiple years, BlackSky said Tuesday. According to a press […]
U.S. Army officials have announced that the 2021 iteration of Project Convergence, a multi-platform initiative aimed at merging joint force capabilities, will more heavily focus on joint warfighting. While the 2020 version had joint warfighting assets tacked on, it mostly consisted of the Army performing experiments on its own at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, […]
The U.S. Marine Corps launched the Advanced Naval Technology Exercise in an effort to fast track the deployment of promising new technologies. The effort was designed to enable quick feedback and the gleaning of useful insights from a range of potentially valuable prototypes. As part of the Corps’ Force Design 2030, which puts emphasis on […]
