Ball Aerospace Begins On-Orbit Trials for NASA Green Propellant Infusion Mission
Ball Aerospace has commenced on-orbit trials of the non-toxic AF-M315E propellant as part of NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission.
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Booz Allen’s Graham Gilmer: DoD Should Address Three Components to Accelerate AI Adoption
Graham Gilmer, a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, wrote in an opinion piece published Monday on C4ISRNET that the Department of Defense and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center have three components to consider to advance AI adoption and one is to build trust in AI platforms.
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Fincantieri Toughens Up Navy FFG(X) Frigate Offering With Extra Steel
Fincantieri has fortified its FREMM frigate design with the addition of hundreds of tons of steel in order to meet the U.S. Navy’s requirements for the FFG(X) guided-missile frigate development program, Defense News reported Friday.
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Johns Hopkins APL-Made Europa Mission Instrument Passes Critical Design Review
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has concluded critical design review of a science instrument that will support studies on Europa, a moon that orbits Jupiter.
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DARPA to Host Proposers’ Day for Software Adaptation Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking potential proposers on a project that aims to capture a programmer's intent and accelerate the process to update software for Department of Defense systems.
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GSA Seeks Industry Comments on Proposed E-Commerce Portal Implementation
The General Services Administration has asked industry for feedback on a proposed program to implement e-commerce portals to modernize the federal acquisition of commercial products and services.
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Lockheed’s Orion Launch Abort System With Northrop-Built Booster Completes Second Flight Test
Lockheed Martin and NASA demonstrated the capability of the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system through the Ascent Abort-2 test conducted Tuesday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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Space Development Agency Issues Space Security Architecture RFI
The Space Development Agency seeks industry input on the development and deployment of a new space defense architecture to support defense and communications goals.
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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.
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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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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.