The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is aiming to streamline software certification for the Department of Defense with the Automated Rapid Certification of Software program. The initiative seeks to expedite the verification process, potentially benefiting both the military and commercial sectors, C4ISRNET reported. At a recent C4ISRNet conference, Benjamin Bishop, deputy director of transition at […]
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center has developed a new application that will ensure that lights, buoys and other markers across the United States are working and where they should be. James Spilsbury, a project manager with the Coast Guard’s RDC, said the Aid Verification Assistant app helps accelerate the Private Aids to […]
Slingshot Aerospace announced that it has developed a system that can monitor satellite behavior in orbit and identify anomalous spacecraft within large constellations using artificial intelligence. Trained on over 60 years of simulated constellation data, the Agatha AI system can verify whether satellites operate as expected and perform tasks that are near impossible for human […]
The U.S. federal government has awarded SilverEdge Government Solutions a $164 million technology solutions and software delivery contract modification to exercise the second option period of a classified task order. Under the contract, SilverEdge will continue providing intelligence solutions through the Soar software-as-a-service platform, which offers customized business automation and intelligence, artificial intelligence and machine […]
The U.S. Air Force Digital Transformation Office-backed Catalyst Accelerator Ogden has started accepting proposals for its Fall 2024 cohort. The accelerator is a semi-residential, three-month program for small businesses connected with the Department of Defense and aims to support the businesses’ initiative to improve their presence in the national defense ecosystem. Proposals should be within […]
BMC announced that it has received provisional authorization for Impact Level 5 from the Defense Information Systems Agency for Helix, the company’s information technology operations management solution. With the authorization, BMC can now offer DOD customers enhanced observability of complex hybrid cloud services, integration of third-party observability data, improved service health monitoring and artificial intelligence-powered […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs recently hosted an event to identify an artificial intelligence-powered solution to address health care delivery issues. After the 90-day AI Tech Sprint, the VA named six teams’ work as finalists for the program, including an “ambient dictation” project that uses AI to take notes during and after a consultation between […]
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has requested information on the Small Business Administration’s IT investments and undisclosed artificial intelligence applications. Particularly, Ernst asked for details on how the SBA manages its IT Working Capital Fund, which she claims has been misused, and questioned the agency’s transparency regarding its AI initiatives, FedScoop reported. Ernst, a ranking member […]
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has adopted a new strategy to accelerate how it scales data, analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities. On Thursday, the CDAO introduced Open DAGIR, which stands for Open Data and Applications Government-owned Interoperable Repositories, an ecosystem that will support the Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control architecture. The […]
The U.S. Space Force is collaborating with a vendor to help deploy artificial intelligence-enabled solutions to space. Machine learning model company Wallaroo .AI is the latest organization to enter the U.S. Space Force’s TAP Lab accelerator program. It will work on an AI platform prototype, enabling the service branch to operationalize machine learning models using […]
