The U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center plans to use artificial intelligence and digital technologies to improve its workflows. According to Chief Information Officer Peter Guo, the organization’s workers, many of whom are Japanese, benefit from Google Meet’s live translation as it allows native English-speaking employees to communicate freely while the […]
AFWERX has awarded Unanimous AI a $1.25 million Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II contract to support the Department of the Air Force’s creation of high-performing military teams using the company’s Swarm AI technology under a project called Team Insight. Unanimous AI offers the Swarm platform, which can be accessed using any standard web browser, […]
Maj. Gen. Robert Edmonson II, commander of the U.S. Army’s Communications and Electronics Command, said the integration of manned and unmanned systems is among the service’s current priorities. In an interview with Federal Drive during the Association of the U.S. Army conference, Edmonson said the Army aims to reduce safety risks facing soldiers through the […]
Louis Koplin, head of the Department of the Navy’s Program Executive Office Digital, said his organization’s side of the Neptune Cloud Management Office is operational. Established in June, Neptune is intended to serve as the Navy’s and Marine Corps’ hub for procuring and delivering cloud services, DefenseScoop reported. The Navy’s side of the office was […]
DRT Strategies, an Amazon Web Services partner, has been supporting the Food and Drug Administration in migrating mission-critical workloads to the cloud and in creating a data lake for the agency. Rick Goodwin, senior manager of the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition account at DRT, said the company developed cloud migration strategies, […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Infleqtion to participate a program to develop quantum algorithms for generative machine learning. The Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow program is driven by quantum information processing advancements such as Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum devices, Infleqtion said Tuesday. DARPA is exploring how hybrid quantum and classical computing […]
Threat detection solutions provider Liberty Defense has delivered two HEXWAVE walkthrough screening portals to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. HEXWAVE uses millimeter-wave 3D imaging and artificial intelligence to detect metallic and non-metallic items, including weapons, explosives and other dangerous and prohibited items without the need for users to surrender ordinary objects. It also delivers automatic […]
X-Bow Systems announced that it won a $64 million contract from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy to provide solid rocket motors to the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy. X-Bow’s SRMs will provide boost propulsion for the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic weapon and the Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic […]
Seven U.S. 5th Fleet task forces have combined manned and unmanned platforms to monitor Iranian naval ships at the Strait of Hormuz as part of enhanced maritime security operations around the Arabian Peninsula. During the September operations, 12 unmanned underwater, surface and aerial platforms were paired with crewed ships and aircraft to increase deterrence against […]
The U.S. Army’s chief information officer said that cloud contracting migration is one of his top three priorities and that he has already issued directives to get components to transition into the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. In an interview with Federal News Network, Leo Garciga said he issued two guidance memoranda centered […]
