C3 AI has been awarded a production other transaction agreement to support the Missile Defense Agency’s development of enterprise artificial intelligence. OTAs serve as a vehicle for the Department of Defense to acquire research and development support without being subject to many of the laws and regulations governing federal contracts, according to a Mitre primer. […]
AFWERX reviewed technologies for its Revolutionizing Flightline Operations Challenge during a pitch event held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in late August. The Air Force innovation hub was interested in learning more about market offerings for airfield maintenance and repair, aircraft maintenance operations and flight line security, Air Force Magazine reported Wednesday. During the event, innovators […]
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has received a $12.5 million contract from the Department of Energy to develop a distributed quantum network with the aim of accelerating the development of a nationwide quantum internet. Under the five-year DOE contract, the Berkeley Lab is expected to produce a testbed that will connect quantum computers between the […]
The National Security Agency has awarded a $2 billion contract to Hewlett Packard Enterprise to provide high-performance computing technology “as a service” through the company’s HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. The American multinational IT company’s deal with the intelligence agency will go into operation in 2022 and will continue over a 10-year performance period, Nextgov reported […]
The U.S. Army has issued a solicitation for the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – 4 Hardware contract, with proposals due Sept. 4. The potential 10-year, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity ITES-4H contract allows for the procurement of products supporting net operations such as servers, workstations, thin clients, desktop computers, notebook computers, storage systems, networking equipment, imaging equipment, cables, […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is building a testbed supercomputer called Polaris that is set to be deployed at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. Polaris will be built using 280 HPE Apollo Gen10 Plus systems and feature 2nd and 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors and 2240 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. It is expected to […]
The Navy plans on issuing a multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to facilitate the upgrade of existing afloat networks. The Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services contract will have a ten-year ordering period and provide services such as software development, maintenance and delivery of production units and spare parts. According to the Navy’s fiscal 2022 budget […]
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded Robotic Research a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to modify the design and increase the capacity of Pegasus Mini. The company’s proprietary lightweight and backpackable hybrid unmanned system is capable of autonomous operations in air and ground modes, allowing it to navigate areas that may be […]
The Army has released an abbreviated capabilities development document endorsing the start of the competitive prototyping phase for the new Future Tactical Unmanned Aerial System. The FTUAS competition was launched to replace the aging Textron-made Shadow unmanned aircraft system. Four tactical drones have been shortlisted as potential Shadow UAS replacements: the Martin V-BAT, the Arcturus […]
Decision-makers at the U.S. Department of State are looking to increase the agency’s stake in cloud computing while mulling a revamp in the way the department pays for technology. Leaders seek to modernize the agency’s application portfolio and move decisions about software closer to business owners, FCW reported Wednesday. The new cloud push can be […]
