The Department of Energy plans to grant $30M for new fusion energy studies that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning methods. A total of $17M will be used on AI technology for plasma phenomena prediction, operations management and accelerated discovery while $13M will be used for fundamental fusion theory research, DOE announced Wednesday. Department Secretary Dan Brouillette said AI […]
The Air Force is requesting $302M from the Senate to lead the development of the Joint All-Domain Command and Control system. In a hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said the service wants to lead the initiative to “truly operate at the speed of relevance.” According […]
The Department of Defense is conducting a study on the military’s industrial base for hypersonic weapons to understand limitations tied to the large-scale production of high-speed offensive and defensive technology. Mark Lewis, DoD director of research and engineering for modernization, said in an interview that the department has established a new “hypersonic war room” to […]
The U.S. Coast Guard is looking for contractors capable of providing intelligence data service and cloud support. Specifically, the Coast Guard indicated in its request for information notice that interested contractors must provide engineering and operations support to the following domains: on-premise, cloud unclassified and classified systems. The services listed in the RFI are intended […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy said the Trump administration has met its objectives identified under the American Artificial Intelligence initiative a year since its inception. According to a joint letter released by Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios and Deputy CTO Lynne Parker, the administration made investments in AI research and development, advanced […]
Lockheed Martin is designing a hypersonic weapon, called Hypersonic Strike Weapon-Air Breathing, for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. John Varley, the company's vice president for hypersonics, said that the air-launched hypersonic missile was scheduled to complete its design review Thursday. Varley added that all of the company's ongoing hypersonics designs will undergo critical design reviews […]
The Pentagon has renewed its Integrated Mobile Database software license agreement with Synergetics. DLA uses the IMD to collect logistics information across U.S. military services and manage the procurement of platforms and components from approximately 65K providers. The platform is designed to help users search, retrieve and gain visibility into over 16M parts across the […]
The Department of Energy is set to award 86 grants worth $97M to 70 small businesses across 28 states as part of the department’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The grants, which were announced by Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, will fund the businesses’ Phase II research and development efforts. The […]
The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity has issued a $6.7M research grant in support of four university-led projects to develop internet of things technologies. The DOE said the projects were designed to explore how to integrate advanced IoT technologies into the energy infrastructure community. The universities involved are Stanford University, Purdue University, Portland State University […]
The Department of Homeland Security has cleared Sepio Systems for its Approved Product List through the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. Sepio may now offer the government CDM capabilities in asset management, network security management and data protection management, in addition to its currently exclusive rogue device mitigation capabilities, the company announced Tuesday. Under the CDM […]
