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L3Harris Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to help prototype artificial intelligence and machine learning systems that will process large volumes of data from airborne and space-based assets.
Lockheed Martin CEO James Taiclet said the company plans to forge commercial partnerships in 5G as it works to help the U.S. military and allies adopt and field next-generation mobile networks, Defense One reported Monday.
General Dynamics' mission systems business has introduced a software-defined radio offering designed to help military customers transmit data from ground locations to aerial platforms.
PAE announced on Monday that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CENTRA Technology, an intelligence analysis service provider focused on providing mission-critical services for the intelligence community and other U.S. national and homeland security customers, for approximately $208 million in cash. The acquisition will specifically strengthen PAE’s intelligence, defense, and national and homeland security businesses.
Microsoft and Panasonic have partnered in an effort to help law enforcement organizations automate the process of editing sensitive content out of video files used as criminal justice evidence. Panasonic said Friday its IDguard identity redaction technology runs on the Microsoft Azure Government cloud platform and seeks to reduce manual editing on censorship tasks by 90 percent.
Xerox's PARC subsidiary will build additional solar-powered drifters under the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to collect ocean data using a floating distributed network. PARC produced 1,500 floating devices during the initial phase of DARPA's Ocean of Things program and aims to provide up to 10K compact units for the next round, Xerox said Thursday.
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has kicked off a prize competition that challenges participants to submit machine learning-based approaches to determine the location of audio or video recordings. The five-week submission period for NGA's Soundscapes competition runs through Nov. 27
Axiom Space hopes to hammer out an agreement for its maiden commercial flight to the International Space Station slated for launch in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2021, SpaceNews reported Friday.
Mark Bohannon, vice president of government affairs at Red Hat, has said the federal government should establish a long-term strategy for its remote workforce and drive cloud implementation to ensure continued operations following the pandemic.
The U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana, is seeking proposals for a system-of-systems prototype that could incorporate both ground and airborne components for autonomous flight safety management of hypersonic weapon systems.
Ashley Nicholson, former director of capture at Cognosante, has joined data analytics and virtualization company Virtualitics as director of federal sales. Nicholson will lead Virtualitics' efforts to help civilian agencies address big data challenges through the use of technology combining artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
