The Air Force completed a flight test of a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger drone at Edwards Air Force Base using the Skyborg autonomy core system. “The ACS accomplished basic aviation behaviors and responded to navigational commands, while reacting to geo-fences, adhering to aircraft flight envelopes, and demonstrating coordinated maneuvering,” the service said in a statement. […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to develop artificial intelligence agents that share their experiences with each other. DARPA is seeking innovative basic or applied research concepts in “lifelong learning,” an emerging area of machine learning focused on a single, independent agent, according to a solicitation document posted on SAM .gov. Lifelong learning algorithms […]
Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey has been appointed the new director of the Army’s Network Modernization Cross-Functional Team. Rey replaces Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher, who served as the first head of the team. Gallagher retired from military service in May. The N-CFT is part of the Army Futures Command. The team was established with a focus […]
The Air Force has launched a new unit to take on electromagnetic spectrum threats posed by adversaries like Russia and China. According to an announcement by the Air Combat Command, the newly established 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing will provide maintenance, operational and technical expertise for electronic warfare in support of the combat air forces. The […]
Small businesses are seeking to be excused from complying with higher levels of the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Jonathan Williams, a partner at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm PilieroMazza, told members of the House Small Business Committee on June 24 that compliance with CMMC requirements beyond level 1 would burden small […]
The Department of Defense has appointed John Garstka as acting chief information security officer for acquisition and sustainment. In his role, Garstka will lead the integration of security- and cyber-related initiatives within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense and ensure security within the Pentagon’s technology supply chain, FedScoop reported. Sources say he is taking […]
Hanscom Air Force Base and the Air Combat Command are jointly developing a software-based perimeter that can enable zero trust security. Zero trust is a modern architecture that automatically denies resource requests until confidence can be established through identity verification and other measures, the Air Force said. Raju Ranjan, an engineer at Hanscom AFB’s AFNet […]
Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has directed the military branches to make their data more accessible and interoperable. The general signed four new directives aimed at unlocking the large data sets that the Department of Defense needs to develop artificial intelligence and other capabilities, FedScoop reported Wednesday. A large […]
Infoscitex, a DCS company, has received two contracts with a combined value of $243 million and a shared seven-year period of performance that calls for services in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate. The first contract, focused on aerospace technology development and testing, provides for transformative aerospace capabilities, control theory and […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded KBR a $194.3 million task order to provide research support for microelectronics components. Under the contract, KBR is tasked with conducting research, developing, testing and analyzing the design and fabrication of microelectronics technologies at the Trusted Electronics Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory. The task order is in […]
