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NASA to Launch 12 Payloads for Lunar Research, Demonstrations
NASA will launch 12 science and technology payloads in an effort to study more of the Moon’s surface as the agency prepares for more lunar trips by 2024.
Deloitte’s Marc Mancher on Federal Robotic Process Automation Adoption
Marc Mancher, a principal at Deloitte, said federal agencies have been slow to adopt robotic process automation and are more likely to scale bots horizontally into new use cases, FedScoop reported Monday.
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SRI International Gets DARPA Contract to Develop Chemical Threat Sensors for Urban Areas
SRI International will create sensors that can detect potential chemical threats in urban areas under an $11.6M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
ManTech Gets OTA for Army Cyber Training Environment; Kevin Phillips Quoted
The Department of Defense has awarded ManTech International a potential three-year, $21M other transaction agreement to further develop and incorporate prototype capabilities for the U.S. Army’s Persistent Cyber Training Environment.
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Karem, Northrop, Raytheon Team to Develop Tiltrotor Prototype for Army’s Reconnaissance Aircraft Program Under $738M Army Contract
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have partnered with Karem Aircraft to develop a prototype tiltrotor aircraft for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program under Karem’s $738M Army contract, Rotor and Wing reported Monday.
Semantic AI Unveils Enterprise Data Intelligence SaaS Platform
Software developer Semantic AI has introduced its Cortex Enterprise Intelligence Platform designed to visualize structured and unstructured data sources to support on-premises and cloud operations.
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CACI To Build Virtual Infrastructure Testing Methods Under Air Force Contract
CACI International has received a five-year, $34.8M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop technologies and approaches that will demonstrate and assess the efficiency of virtual infrastructure.
Nick Weir: In-Q-Tel Advances AI Through SpaceNet Project
Nick Weir, a data scientist at In-Q-Tel and challenge manager for SpaceNet project, told Federal News Network in an interview published Monday how IQT’s CosmiQ Works laboratory leverages artificial intelligence through the SpaceNet initiative.
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Harris, L3 All-Stock Merger Completed to Form L3Harris Technologies; Christopher Kubasik, William Brown Quoted
The all-stock merger between L3 Technologies and Harris Corp. has been completed to form L3Harris Technologies (LHX), the new company announced on Monday. L3Harris is officially the sixth largest defense company in the United States worth approximately $17 billion in revenue with over 50,000 employees. The company also announced the details regarding its own leadership, the board of directors and organizational structure.Â
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FBI Vet Eric Welling to Joins Accenture as Senior Security Exec
Eric Welling, former deputy assistant director of the cyber division at the FBI, has been named senior security executive at Accenture, CyberScoop reported Friday. He will manage the company's North America Incident Response Command Center, which analyzes cyber threats and provides security support to customers.