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IBM has won a $14.8M contract to deliver a neural inference system and complementary support services for the U.S. Air Force. Under the contract, the company will study, design, develop, test, integrate, document, implement and deliver the Northpole neural inference machine, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will take place in San Jose, Calif., through […] More
CACI International has received a six-month, $66.4M task order from the General Services Administration to continue information technology support services for the U.S. Army‘s reserve component automation system. The company has provided RCAS sustainment, program management, infrastructure integration, technical services to the Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems over the past five years through […] More
Raytheon plans to demonstrate a deployable version of its approach and landing guidance system at two of the U.S. Air Force’s F-35 operation facilities in 2019, Military.com reported Wednesday. The company aims to show the U.S. Air Force the ability of the Joint Precision Approach and Landings System to guide pilots in landing in austere […] More
Raytheon has used agile development practices in efforts to integrate new features into the baseline software of the U.S. Air Force’s Air and Space Operations Center Weapon System, Flightglobal reported Wednesday. The company added functions for targeting, battle damage assessment and logistics applications, among other things, into the software to link previously disconnected systems, as […] More
Lockheed Martin has integrated modern signals intelligence mechanisms into the U.S. Air Force’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system using agile development approaches. The company said Tuesday it modernized the Distributed Common Ground System to support airmen in performing intelligence operations worldwide, as well as allow the ISR platform to provide centralized processing and remote support services. […] More
Rockwell Collins will develop and provide communications technologies that would complement the integration of a new situational awareness system into the U.S. Air Force‘s KC-135R aircraft. The company said Monday it will perform the first ever permanent integration of Link 16 communications into a legacy tanker aircraft as part of the Real Time Information in […] More
BAE Systems will work to further advance the U.S. Air Force‘s gallium nitride semiconductor technology under a joint effort with the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said Monday it will transfer the semiconductors to the Nashua, N.H.-based Advanced Microwave Products Center for scaling into 6-inch wafers in a move to reduce costs and increase […] More
Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon‘s intelligence, information and services business, has said the company uses a crowd development approach to identify innovation partners and new technologies such as artificial intelligence. “We are leveraging the power of the crowd,” Probert wrote in an article published Friday on Breaking Defense. He noted […] More
The Commerce Department‘s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is requesting for industry input on artificial intelligence technologies and approaches that can be applied to support the agency’s patent search and examination activities. USPTO is in need of applications that would widen information searches, classify information, increase the validity of search results, summarize information and notify users when […] More
The U.S. Air Force Materiel Command is sourcing for potential contractors to provide 360 units of Lot 17 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range. The AFMC would also require the contractor to provide sustainment services that support the operational safety, suitability and effectiveness of the missile, the U.S. Air Force said Thursday. Services for the JASSM weapon system would include telemetry instrumentation […] More
Fluor has partnered with IBM to develop big data analytics and diagnostic tools to track the status of engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction megaprojects in real time. Fluor said Thursday it leveraged IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence and analytic technologies to produce the EPC Project Health Diagnostics and Market Dynamics/Spend Analysis tools. The predictive analysis systems […] More
The Missile Defense Agency and Japan’s maritime self-defense force demonstrated the interceptor function of a Raytheon-made missile during a recent flight test near Kauai, Hawaii. Japan’s JS Atago launched Raytheon’s Standard Missile-3 Block IB unit to intercept a ballistic missile target with the support of the U.S. Navy, Raytheon said Wednesday. The test confirms the ship’s compatibility with […] More
