The focus technologies for the Department of Defense’s Organic Industrial Base Modernization Challenge were discussed in a workshop held from Oct. 25 to 26 in Chicago. According to a DOD press release issued on Tuesday, the challenge is a closed event for invited programs and is expected to offer $2.5 million for technologies that advance […]
Rigetti Computing has announced that it won a potential $1.5 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract to develop benchmarks for large-scale quantum computing application performance. Under the Phase 2 DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Program contract, Rigetti Computing will continue work done during the first phase, wherein the company and its partners were able to develop […]
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said at an event on Tuesday that the Department of Defense within the next three weeks will choose the programs to be fast-tracked under an initiative to rapidly deploy thousands of autonomous systems. Hicks previously explained that Replicator’s objective is to provide the U.S. […]
Sandia National Laboratories has completed a test program on accelerating the U.S. Navy’s hypersonic strike capability and the Missile Defense Agency’s hypersonic defense capability. The lab’s testing, which will also help advance other hypersonic technologies, was undertaken with the MDA and the Navy Strategic Systems Programs in coordination with the Navy Strategic Systems Programs and […]
The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health announced that it has completed the deployment of the Military Health System Genesis electronic health record system to 7,000 more Department of Defense clinicians and providers outside of the contiguous United States. The rollout covered Pacific areas such as Okinawa, Japan, and South Korea and followed deployments across Europe […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Raytheon, an RTX business, a four-year, $15 million contract for radio frequency sensor technology enhancements. Raytheon will create improved high-power density, military-grade gallium nitride radio frequency transistors designed to deliver up to 16 times higher power output compared to traditional GaN transistors. Raytheon will work with the […]
Lockheed Martin is preparing to deliver its TPY-4 software-defined radar to the U.S. Air Force for evaluation. The development follows months of internal testing and modifications at Lockheed’s New York facilities. Steve Allen, program director for ground-based air surveillance at Lockheed, said the Air Force would push TPY-4 to the limit so officials would know […]
CGI’s United States-based federal subsidiary has received a five-year U.S. Strategic Command contract to develop and maintain hardware and software within the Global Data Integration environment. A component of the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, GDI aims to integrate multiple domains to enhance global situational awareness and decision-making, CGI said Wednesday. […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Empower AI a $27 million task order for IT support services. Empower AI will provide network architecture and equipment optimization in support of the Army Transport Edge network infrastructure. The company will also deliver out-of-band management network support, a new network management system, migration services and legacy network integration services. […]
The Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has issued the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Toolkit, one of the drivers outlined in the DOD’s RAI Strategy and Implementation Pathway that Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks signed in June 2022. The RAI S&I Pathway operationalizes the DOD’s AI Ethical Principles defining 64 tracks for […]
