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Boeing has concluded its work to install a new imagery tool in F-22 Raptor training simulators at the U.S. Air Force’s mission training centers. The Constant Resolution Visual System installed on 20 training simulators works to provide F-22 fighter pilots with a 360-degree view of the flight environment, Boeing said Friday. Boeing partnered with the service branch to […] More
Battelle and SMT have forged an alliance to further develop and commercialize a tool that works to detect cloned or counterfeit electronic chips. Battelle said Thursday its Barricade platform consists of a hardware and software system that works to verify the authenticity of an integrated circuit based on the chip’s electrical signatures and classification algorithm […] More
Scientists at IBM Research have developed a new process that could help advance the adoption of carbon nanotubes as a semiconductor material used to produce computer chips and other devices. IBM said Thursday the new process works to scale down transistor contacts to less than 10 nanometers without affecting the performance of carbon nanotubes. “As silicon technology nears […] More
A United Launch Alliance-built rocket launched early Friday morning to mark the 100th mission carried out by the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. An Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to carry the Morelos-3 communications satellite into space, William Graham writes. The Atlas V contains an RL10 engine-powered Centaur upper stage, […] More
Cubic‘s global defense segment has been awarded a contract to build a live, virtual and constructive tool for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing. Cubic said Thursday it will perform contract work on the LVC system intended for airborne combat training under the Secure LVC Advanced Training Environment Advanced Technology Demonstration program. AFRL’s […] More
Raytheon has completed the deployment of a weather data tool at over 140 offices of the U.S. National Weather Service across the country and several territories. The Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System II has visualization and data analysis tools that work to help forecasters predict the weather, Raytheon said Thursday. “The development and rollout of AWIPS […] More
Microsoft has made its Azure ExpressRoute cloud integration service available to users of the software company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Yousef Khalidi, Azure networking engineer at Microsoft, wrote in a Microsoft blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute service is designed to establish private connectivity between on-premises data centers and Azure cloud computing platform without the […] More
General Atomics will receive $9.7 million in funds from the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration under a cooperative agreement to produce commercial supplies of molybdenum-99 medical isotopes in the U.S. Mo-99 serves as the parent isotope of the radioisotope technetium-99m used in nuclear-based diagnostic imaging procedures, General Atomics said Wednesday. The company will collaborate with […] More
The U.S. Army has issued a solicitation in search of design proposals from industry for a new engine to replace General Electric-built T700-GE-701C/D engines that run on UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache helicopters, the Army website reported Tuesday. The Improved Turbine Engine Program is designed to equip Apache and Black Hawk aircraft with 3,000 […] More
Leidos and Boundless have forged a strategic alliance to further develop and market open-source geospatial software and cyber defense tools and services. The partnership will allow Leidos to use Boundless’ OpenGeo Suite geospatial platform to update its proprietary systems with open-source applications and support its integration initiatives that seek to address intelligence and national security efforts, Leidos […] More
Chris Young, senior vice president and general manager of Intel‘s security group, has said in an interview that regular software updates could help safeguard connected automobiles from potential cyber attacks. “When you find vulnerabilities or things that are wrong, the sooner you can respond and update your software on the device, the better the overall protections […] More
ICF International has won two contracts worth $36 million combined from the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services to provide database management support and continue work on a study. One potential four-year, $31.2 million recompete contract calls on ICF to continue its provide data collection, training and data analysis for the HUD Policy Development […] More
