The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded RTX, formerly Raytheon Technologies, a follow-on contract to build and fly additional Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept flight vehicles with enhancements based on lessons learned during the earlier parts of the weapon’s development. Under the DARPA contract, RTX and partner Northrop Grumman will apply data and lessons to […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Congress and the federal government have no choice but to join the artificial intelligence revolution to enable safe AI innovation. Speaking at a New York event, he noted that the government should not rely on companies to put guardrails on AI because they may not be willing to put […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has provided businesses a fact sheet that identifies tools they can use to protect critical assets and data as they migrate to the cloud. The Free Tools for Cloud Environments fact sheet also includes resources to guide network defenders and analysts in identifying, mitigating and detecting vulnerabilities and anomalies […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Charles River Analytics a $1.6 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to continue a project to build an artificial intelligence capable of rapidly adapting to changes in the real world. Titled “Probabilistic and Relational Inferences in Dynamic Environments with Compositionally Organized Learning To Reason About […]
The Department of Defense’s deputy chief digital and artificial intelligence officer said during a RAND Corp. event that the office is inclined towards a more decentralized approach to AI acquisition in the Pentagon in light of the agency’s size and diversity. According to Margaret Palmieri, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office already has core […]
A low-cost missile target from a U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center team was launched from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on July 7 to test the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor system. The Army said Economical Target-2 is a spin-stabilized, unguided target that serves as a tactical ballistic […]
The U.S. Marine Corps intends to issue a solicitation for new non-kinetic weapons that can defeat swarms of cheap enemy drones and other hostile unmanned aerial systems. The request for proposals for the Marine Air Defense Integrated System Increment 1 Block 2 is expected to be released by the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2023, […]
The U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX Prime has selected Second Front Systems’ Game Warden platform to support autonomous and disconnected operations. Under the AFWERX deal, Second Front with work with the Air Force to create capabilities supporting rapid and secure software deployment using Game Warden. AFWERX Prime will also support efforts to expand the platform into […]
A new report from the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative highlights compounded risk and delegated control and visibility as cloud security issues facing the government and critical infrastructure organizations. Federal agencies encounter compounded risk when they make use of multiple cloud services simultaneously, increasing the likelihood of breaches. Meanwhile, the concept of delegated control and […]
The U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX Prime has awarded autonomous uncrewed systems developer Darkhive a $5 million Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract to integrate and test autonomy software for uncrewed aerial systems. Steve Turner, chief technology officer of Darkhive, said the company will deliver open, accessible, discoverable and adaptable interfaces to improve technology integration, […]
