The Latvian government has approved the purchase of anti-ship missiles worth around $110 million from the United States as part of the Baltic nation’s efforts to enhance its shoreline defense capabilities. Latvia plans to buy the Naval Strike Missile, a system co-developed by Raytheon Technologies and the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace. The NSM […]
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office within the Department of Defense has relaunched a series of tests under the Global Information Dominance Experiments program to identify data integration and artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies that can enable the Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept. CDAO hosted the fifth iteration of GIDE in January, […]
The U.S. Marine Corps is requesting to include over $13 million in its fiscal year 2024 budget to purchase 41 additional tactical resupply unmanned aircraft systems designed to autonomously carry and transport up to 150 lb of cargo over 9 miles. According to the Corps’ FY 2024 budget justification documents, Survice Engineering, which sells Malloy […]
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has won the first phase of an Air Force Research Laboratory contest to craft a machine-learning model that can support work on synthetic compounds potentially with potential military applications. AFRL awarded the winners 30 percent of a $500,000 […]
The U.S. Army and SAE Government Technologies have opened a new facility in Sterling Heights, Michigan, that advances additive manufacturing capabilities. The Additive Manufacturing Commercialization Center houses the Ingersoll-made Jointless Hull subsection tool, a 3D printer and metal miller that can create aluminum parts and tools. According to Brandon Pender, associate director of the Army […]
Defense officials are confident the implementation of a zero trust architecture by fiscal year 2027 will not only heighten network protection within the Department of Defense but also deter even the most sophisticated cybercriminals. Zero trust presupposes that networks are jeopardized, and users, devices and access need to be constantly validated. And in the case […]
Airspace security firm Dedrone will undertake more work with the Federal Aviation Administration as part of legally mandated counter-drone capability testing efforts. Section 383 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 stipulates that such demonstrations be used to inform regulations on drone use at airports. Following an initial testing round at Atlantic City International Airport, […]
Digital and technology ministers of Group of Seven nations have agreed to adopt risk-based policies and regulations regarding artificial intelligence and allow an enabling environment for its deployment to achieve the maximum benefit for people. In a statement issued on Sunday at the close of the G7 Digital and Tech Ministers’ Meeting in Takasaki, Japan, […]
The Department of Defense plans to expand the use of COVID-19-detecting wearable devices to detect other infectious diseases across the military. The device was developed in 2020 under the Rapid Assessment of Threat Exposure project to help users identify COVID-19 trends. According to RATE program manager Jeff Schneider, the device uses an artificial intelligence program […]
The Department of Defense has been working to streamline and fast-track its software acquisition programs. Margaret Boatner, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform, said during an Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association event on April 21 that the Army has started to execute some of its acquisition programs over the […]
