Lockheed Martin will build an advanced propulsion Long Range Maneuverable Fires missile concept under a contract with the U.S. Army’s Aviation and Missile Center. The missile can hit targets more than 499 kilometers away, farther than the current range of flight of Precision Strike Missiles. LRMF will be designed to be compatible with existing Army […]
Summit 7 has partnered with Microsoft to provide aerospace and defense contractors within the defense industrial base with access to the Microsoft Azure Government Secret cloud. The cloud service offering will allow DIB partners to handle classified workloads and sensitive data in compliance with existing cybersecurity standards. Azure Government Secret has achieved Department of Defense […]
The Federal Trade Commission has posted a request for information to understand the state of competition and cybersecurity in the cloud computing market and the technology’s impact on health care, defense and other industries. Stephanie Nguyen, chief technology officer of the FTC, noted that portions “of the economy now rely on cloud computing services.” In […]
The Naval Supply Systems Command has decided to replace its existing cloud data warehouse IBM Netezza with Yellowbrick as the command moves forward with data modernization. The newly selected data warehouse provides increased performance of extract, transform, load ingestion and reporting speeds; reduced energy consumption; and faster data processing times compared to Netezza, Yellowbrick said. […]
The U.S. Navy seeks $3.6 billion to fund its hypersonic missile program’s all-up rounds for five years. According to the service’s fiscal year 2024 budget request documents, the money will be used for 64 Conventional Prompt Strike AUR development rounds. The allocation will be split into multiple development rounds per fiscal year until FY 2028. […]
The chief of naval operations said the U.S. Navy will take a gradual approach in deploying unmanned vehicles. According to Adm. Michael Gilday, the Navy will apply the lessons it has learned from manned-unmanned teaming projects to avoid repeating mistakes. Speaking at the recent McAleese conference, Gilday said that by 2040, unmanned platforms should make […]
A U.S. Navy task force has launched a new program designed to make sense of ship-gathered data using artificial intelligence and machine learning. According to Capt. Pete Kim, the lead official of Task Force Hopper, Project OpenShip will give sailors AI and ML tools that would manage large volumes of data gathered by ships on […]
The University of Michigan has joined Leidos’ team for Mayhem, a 51-month, $334 million Air Force Research Laboratory program for the development of a hypersonic aircraft. Participating students will assemble components of U-M’s Model-Based Systems Engineering laboratory, which is planned to be integrated into the Mayhem team’s digital engineering ecosystem. According to Arthur Mabbett, the […]
The National Science Foundation is exploring appropriate use cases for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot designed to respond to text-based queries and generate natural language responses. At FedScoop’s ITModTalks, NSF Chief Information Officer Dorothy Aronson said the NSF seeks to identify the advantages and disadvantages of using ChatGPT as it considers deploying the AI […]
The U.S. Navy’s USS Bataan Wasp-class amphibious assault ship was equipped with a hybrid metal 3D printer in October. The 3D printer was installed by engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the Naval Surface Force Atlantic and the Naval Sea Systems Command Technology Office. The machine, which prints 316L stainless steel, can […]
