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The Aerospace Corp. has launched a study that aims to make position, navigation and timing services more resilient through the development of a user-device platform that will work to combine PNT signals from multiple sources. The nonprofit organization said Monday it will use an open-source method to develop a user-device system designed to collect PNT […] More
Quanergy Systems has acquired a software platform from a Raytheon subsidiary for integration with the former’s light detection and ranging sensor systems. Quanergy CEO Louay Eldada said in a statement released Monday the acquisition of the OTUS People Tracker software from Raytheon BBN Technologies is part of Quanergy’s “long-term roadmap for LiDAR integration into larger transportation […] More
A team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a five-year, $110 million award from the National Science Foundation to continue work on a project that aims to provide scientists and engineers access to computing resources. NSF said Tuesday principal investigators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will collaborate with other researchers from […] More
Lockheed Martin has handed a KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Thursday the service branch received on Aug. 18 its 50th Lockheed-built KC-130J aircraft, will be assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California. The KC-130J tanker is designed to perform aerial refueling operations for helicopters, tactical and tiltrotor aircraft […] More
Motorola Solutions has received a potential five-year, $9.1 million contract to install and maintain land mobile radio systems at two NASA-run facilities. NASA said Friday the firm-fixed-price contract has a base term of one year and four option years worth approximately $1.8 million and contains indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity components valued at approximately $7.3 million. The company will field and […] More
Reuters has unveiled a new tool that works to determine the likelihood of a candidate to win or lose the U.S. presidential election through analysis of voting patterns based on demographics and candidates’ levels of support in an online survey. The “States of the Nation” tool is backed by an online poll by Reuters and […] More
NASA has awarded grants to eight faculty researchers to perform research and development work on novel space technology platforms for up to three years. The space agency said Thursday the faculty members will receive up to $200,000 in annual funds as part of NASA’s Space Technology Research Grants program. NASA selected research proposals that seek […] More
Dragos has obtained $1.2 million in a seed funding round backed by cybersecurity startup accelerator DataTribe. Dragos will use the funds to establish a threat operations facility that will work to provide cyber threat detection services for industrial control systems and supervisory control and data acquisition platforms as well as develop technologies intended for ICS networks, the […] More
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Aptima two contracts worth $667,000 combined to expand the functionality of an information fusion platform designed to integrate data from various sources. Aptima and the Air Force Research Laboratory will collaborate to equip the TID-BIT system with additional functions that will work to help intelligence analysts determine the source […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has conducted a demonstration to test a network of more than 100 mobile tools designed to detect radioactive materials as part of the SIGMA program. DARPA said Tuesday the pocket-sized detectors developed through the SIGMA program worked to detect the intensity and location of radiation sources during the one-month […] More
Rockwell Collins and the U.S. Air Force have conducted a live flight test to demonstrate the data transfer functionality of a wideband high-frequency communications system. The company said Tuesday its WBHF system worked to relay data from a C-17 aircraft to a land-based station over a distance of at least 1,500 miles for a period of […] More
The Defense Department has given Battelle and an Astrotech subsidiary the go-ahead to develop the final prototype of a chemical detection tool as part of the third phase of DoD’s Next Generation Chemical Detector Multi-Sample Identifier Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction Program. DoD awarded a phase 3 contract to the team of Astrotech’s 1st Detect and Battelle after […] More
