The U.S. government is working with commercial firms to understand the implications of generative artificial intelligence, which draws on large language models to produce various kinds of data and media based on human instructions. Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence and a 2023 Wash100 winner, told the Senate Armed Services Committee at a Thursday […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded L3Harris Technologies an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop a network solution supporting multi-domain operations. Under the IDIQ, L3Harris will develop a Common Tactical Edge Network that would provide an aerial military internet of things. The CTEN will include a mesh network comprising defense and commercial resources that enhance aerial interoperability […]
The U.S. Navy and Nauticus Robotics have completed a live offshore demonstration of a mine-clearing drone as part of the Defense Innovation Unit’s Autonomous Explosive Ordnance Disposal Maritime Response Vehicle program. Earlier, the company received an other transaction agreement from DIU to prototype an artificial intelligence-powered mine countermeasure platform intended to neutralize underwater bombs for […]
The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded HII’s Mission Technologies division a potential five-year $242 million task order to provide shore-based training, engineering and development support to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Dam Neck Activity. Under the contract, HII will use its experience supporting the U.S. Navy’s live, virtual, constructive training architecture environments […]
The U.S. Central Command’s chief technology officer said the U.S. military also needs to focus on network infrastructure, connectivity and other technology adoption measures to get the most out of artificial intelligence and advanced computing capabilities. Speaking at a SparkCognition Government Systems event on Thursday, CTO Schuyler Moore shared that while AI and computing algorithms […]
Final tests are underway for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Navigation Technology Satellite-3, a $250 million program aimed at demonstrating new positioning, navigation and timing technologies that can weather jamming, spoofing and other forms of interference. Frank Calvelli, the Air Force’s assistant secretary for space acquisition and integration, told lawmakers at an April 26 hearing […]
The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy has awarded contracts to General Electric, Carbon-Carbon Advanced Technologies and Northrop Grumman to accelerate the development of hypersonic technology and expand the domestic hypersonic industrial base. The awards are a response to President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14017, which highlights the importance of […]
The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command has selected BAE Systems, Serco and Scientific Research Corp. to compete for task orders under an eight-year $537 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle for procuring command, control, communications, computers and intelligence services for surface ships. C4I systems provide ships with the ability to communicate, control and coordinate fleet operations, BAE […]
The U.S. Army’s Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions project office has awarded AeroVironment a $64.6 million firm-fixed-price contract to acquire more Switchblade 300 loitering missile systems, portable, single-use drones that launch from a tube and crash into targets. According to a press release, the deal stipulates foreign military sales to France and an unspecified allied […]
The U.S. Navy’s DoD Supercomputing Resource Center has increased the number of its supercomputers to six with the addition of the high-performance computing system Nautilus. Penguin Computing TrueHPC built the supercomputer under a $68 million contract the Department of Defense awarded to the company in 2021. According to Navy DSRC Director Christine Cuicchi, Nautilus became […]
