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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Strategic Technology Office has initiated an effort aiming to further understand and address the gray-zone of conflict, an area between peace and warfare wherein hostility is difficult to identify. Under the Collection and Monitoring via Planning for Active Situational Scenarios or COMPASS effort, DARPA seeks to construct software that makes use of stimuli-response […] More
A new Accenture survey indicates that 54 percent of adults aged 18 and older across six countries have expressed interest to adopt artificial intelligence systems used by the government to deliver public services. Accenture said Thursday it polled 6,000 citizens in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Germany, France and Singapore through an online survey performed from October through […] More
Cherokee Nation Technologies has won a potential five-year, $55 million order from the Defense Health Agency to provide health surveillance support for the Defense Department. DoD said Thursday the company will help maintain existing infrastructure; respond to inquiries from medical and health authorities; and analyze, interpret and disseminate information on the status, trends and determinants of the […] More
Northrop Grumman will support information technology modernization and transformation activities at the Social Security Administration under a potential 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded in August 2017. The company said Thursday it seeks to help SSA update and engineer software, manage data and database and secure IT platforms through the IDIQ re-compete award. Northrop, CGI’s federal business and Leidos hold positions on […] More
Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, has said cybersecurity extends across ground, aerial, maritime and space domains and has made an impact on how the military performs its missions. Wajsgras, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, talked at the 2018 Boston Conference on Cyber Security and discussed the ubiquity of cyber in several […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary and Romaero have signed a partnership agreement with the goal to encourage Romanian defense companies to support in-country assembly and maintenance of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Romaero said Wednesday Lockheed authorized the Bucharest-based aerospace company to host a regional center that will assemble, equip, customize and maintain the multimission aircraft in Central Europe. Eric Schreiber, a […] More
Orbital ATK has received the green light to begin development work on NASA’s land remote sensing satellite designed to gather space-based images and data that can support agriculture, disaster relief and land use mapping research efforts. The company said Thursday the approval came after it completed a critical design review, which showed that the Landsat […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, cited the importance of communications to the U.S. military during a panel discussion Wednesday at the Satellite 2018 conference, National Defense reported Thursday. “There is no mission that takes place in the United States military that isn’t enabled by communication. It is the […] More
Boeing has made an investment in Fortem Technologies through its ventures arm to help the Salt Lake City, Utah-based company advance the development of radar platforms for unmanned aerial vehicles. Fortem has developed a radar system, TrueView, that works to help drones detect and avoid other aerial objects and perform package delivery, cargo transport, infrastructure inspections […] More
The Center for a New American Security has formed a task force to study how the U.S. government can address national security risks from artificial intelligence. CNAS said Thursday Robert Work, former deputy secretary at the Defense Department, will co-chair the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security alongside Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s School […] More
AECOM‘s URS Federal Services subsidiary has received a potential three-year, $33.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for two military organizations and a task force. Work covers responsive and real-time ISR support to overseas contingency operations of the U.S. Central Command, Naval Forces Central Command and Commander Task Force […] More
A Boeing subsidiary has partnered with Accenture, Oracle and Mannai to build an enterprise resource planning and logistics management information system for Qatar’s armed forces under a five-year contract. Boeing said Wednesday its Tapestry Solutions business will provide the GOLDesp maintenance, repair and overhaul software platform while Oracle will supply its E-Business suite for integration into the ERP/LMIS platform. GOLDesp is designed […] More
