The U.S. Army Futures Command has taken on the responsibility of leading the integration of the Army’s transformation efforts in a way that would enable a multidomain approach, according to AFC Deputy Commanding General Lt. Gen. Thomas Todd III. The integration work involves developing systems compatible with the technologies multinational partners are using. Project Convergence […]
The Department of Defense’s Defense Acquisition University plans to teach over 3,000 military and civilian professionals data analytics and artificial intelligence to help them better understand emerging technologies. David Pearson, director of DAU’s Engineering and Technology Center, said the upskilling initiative will support a growing recognition across the department for the need for data literacy. […]
The third annual meeting of the South Korea-U.S. ICT Cooperation Committee held in Hawaii on Thursday tackled joint assessments on 5G wireless networks and other technologies. Kang Wan-gu, chief of planning and coordination at Korea’s Ministry of National Defense, and U.S. Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman led the bilateral security cooperation meeting. […]
The Office of Naval Research has awarded Saab a $13 million grant for Threat and Situational Understanding with Networked-Online Machine Intelligence, a program aimed at enhancing military situational awareness by building artificial intelligence to support threat identification and analysis in complex scenarios. TSUNOMI capabilities will first be installed on a U.S. Navy unmanned surface vessel. […]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate and AFWERX, the Air Force’s technology directorate, have installed an uncrewed aircraft system traffic management at Eglin Air Force Base to ensure that drones can take off and land safely. The Collaborative Low-Altitide UAS Integration Effort is designed to monitor the airspace as electric vertical takeoff and […]
The Defense Intelligence Unit has awarded GM Defense a contract to provide an energy storage unit prototype for the Stable Tactical Expeditionary Electric Power program, which aims to reduce the Department of Defense’s reliance on fossil fuels as its primary energy source in remote locations or areas without a stable power grid. GM Defense will […]
A House Armed Services Committee proposal for the fiscal year 2024 defense budget would direct the Department of Defense to submit a progress report on data and technology integration efforts for Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, a plan to connect sensors across all domains to facilitate decision-making. Introduced by Rep. Pat Ryan, the amendment […]
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific has awarded Elbit Systems of America a prime contract for autonomous maritime target tracking. Under the contract, Elbit America will develop its prototype target-tracking solution and test it in a series of sea-based demonstrations that would span a year. The company’s envisioned solution uses autonomy, artificial intelligence, target recognition and […]
The Department of the Army has named Mark Kitz the new program executive officer for command, control and communications-tactical at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, to succeed Maj. Gen. Anthony Potts. Program Executive Office – Command, Control Communications-Tactical is responsible for providing a unified network and pertinent tools and technologies that will enable the […]
The U.S. Army is asking eligible small businesses to submit proposals for a solution that can provide real-time two and three-dimensional mapping and modeling capabilities and can integrate sensor and object-identification data to support operations in GPS-denied environments. The service will select up to two Dynamic Enhanced Environment Perception – Building Information Models proposals for […]
