U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin a 30-day demonstration of its new Pedestrian Detection-at-Range system at five ports of entry in California and Arizona, with the goal of reducing the need for physical searches. According to a recently published privacy impact assessment document, the system takes video and photos in order to detect anomalies […]
The U.S. Army’s Artificial Intelligence Integration Center is looking for new and emerging technologies that could support AI-enabled problem-solving capabilities for the service’s cross-functional teams. The technologies sought should seal several gaps that the Army has identified. Ruben Cruz, the lead official for finance and operations at AIC2, said during the AUSA’s annual conference that […]
As part of the Scarlet Dragon exercise, the U.S. Army on Thursday scanned 7,200 kilometers across four states on the eastern seaboard using artificial intelligence to find and destroy simulated targets in an area the size of a 10-square-foot box. The wargames, which was led by the XVIII Airborne Corps, used multiple technology platforms covering […]
Leidos announced that the National Security Agency has awarded the company a $300 million ceiling value contract to provide development and modernization services in support of the agency’s Technical Signals Intelligence mission. Under the five-year, single-award deal, the Virginia-based company will be called upon to develop and deploy new systems using cloud architectures and standardized […]
BAE Systems has secured the U.S. Navy’s five-year, $68.5 million Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems Engineering Products & Technical Services contract. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, BAE will continue providing lifecycle sustainment, integration and engineering services to support the service’s aircraft carriers. Work under the contract will focus on the AN/SPN-46(V) Automatic Carrier Landing System, […]
The Department of Commerce is planning to build a cloud-based data repository prototype to advance its space traffic management efforts. The proposed Open-Architecture Data Repository will host information about the location of orbiting satellites and space junk for improved situational awareness. Much of the data collection work will be headed by the Office of Space […]
Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Northrop Grumman have launched the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept for the first time in the presence of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force. The activity is part of a $200 million teaming agreement between the two companies to develop hypersonic ballistics for the military. The […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded extended reality platforms provider GridRaster a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to support the service’s CV-22 Osprey fleet. GridRaster will provide a high-precision augmented reality toolkit to help personnel handle the aircraft’s nacelle wiring. The toolkit will be developed using an open system scalable XR infrastructure. The […]
The Department of Defense has awarded communications company Viasat two contracts to conduct research in support of the Information Warfare Research Project. The research work will focus on examining the use and implementation of 5G networks in battlefield operations. The two awards are part of the Pentagon’s 5G research initiative amounting to $600 million with […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory has publicly launched an open-source software product designed to incorporate artificial intelligence and autonomy into the research process. The Autonomous Research System uses “research robots” capable of conducting their own research using AI and automation, AFRL said Wednesday. Benji Maruyama, AFRL autonomous materials and ARES OS team lead, said the […]
