SkyGrid, a company formed by Boeing and SparkCognition, has partnered with NASA Langley Research Center on the System-Wide Safety project to ensure the safe integration of unmanned aircraft systems into the National Airspace System. The effort is split into two principal components: demonstrating and integrating SkyGrid’s traffic surveillance software into the UAS Traffic Management System […]
The Army National Guard has awarded General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. a contract to procure 12 Gray Eagle 25M unmanned aircraft systems for multi-domain operations. GE 25M, a modernized variant of the Gray Eagle, features the new EagleEye multimode radar and electro-optical/infrared sensors and the capability to operate additional kinetic and non-kinetic payloads, GA-ASI said. […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected AeroVironment to support the development of a vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aircraft system under the Advanced Aircraft Infrastructure-Less Launch and Recovery program. AeroVironment offers its Wildcat Group 3 VTOL drone, which boasts the SPOTR-Edge machine learning-enabled computer vision to minimize operational burdens and the ability to […]
The Department of the Interior has selected Accenture Federal Services, Science Applications International Corp., Smartronix and Zivaro to provide cloud license and support services under the 10-year, $2 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Foundation Cloud Hosting Services 2 IDIQ will support infrastructure, platform, software and other environments based on the cloud, according to a notice posted […]
The U.S. Navy’s Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants has awarded Beacon Interactive Systems a contract to develop a digital solution called Forward Logistics Expeditionary Platform. Leveraging the company’s Beacon Platform software, FLEX seeks to address the management and sustainment needs of forward-deployed unmanned underwater vehicles, Beacon said. The goal is to create […]
Organizations will soon have a tool to measure the societal risks and impacts of artificial intelligence technologies. With the Assessing Risks and Impacts of AI program, the National Institute of Standards and Technology offers organizations and individuals a technology to test, evaluate, validate and verify AI capabilities and how they will affect society. ARIA builds […]
Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division has partnered with Brigham Young University to test proposed algorithms designed to enable unmanned underwater vehicle fleets to use bathymetry data for cooperative localization. The collaboration, formed through the Naval Engineering Education Consortium program, works on the project named NEEC: Active & Cooperative Terrain Aided Navigation Using Inverted-Ultra-short […]
The Department of Defense has selected the Panoptic Junction tool to support the Biden administration’s executive order on the safe deployment and development of artificial intelligence. The Army Cyber Command described the new tool as “a prototype platform that, once productized, will revolutionize security monitoring of IT systems,” improving the capability to detect malicious cyber […]
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division is testing a DGX H100 artificial intelligence computer’s full capability to help its personnel analyze voluminous data more rapidly than a regular processing tool. Called Naval Gold Standard AI Computer, the workstation is located at the NSWCDD’s Innovation Lab for AI machine learning tasks and complex graphics processing, […]
NASA and its industry partners are testing a generative artificial intelligence capability that could have access to the agency’s sensitive internal data in the future. Jeff Seaton, chief information officer at NASA, said the agency expects to have the large language model rated at a Federal Information Security Modernization Act Moderate level by mid- to […]
