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  • Air Force Issues RFI on Directed Energy Tech for Future Counter-UAS Demo
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    Air Force Issues RFI on Directed Energy Tech for Future Counter-UAS Demo

    The U.S. Air Force seeks information on the availability of directed energy weapons technology that can support an upcoming counter-unmanned aircraft system demonstration. The service branch said Tuesday its Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office will use data collected from the request for information as part of market research analyses under the Air Force Directed Energy […] More

  • Salesforce to Invest $50M in K-12 Computer Science Education
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    Salesforce to Invest $50M in K-12 Computer Science Education

    Salesforce has pledged to invest $50 million and one million volunteer hours over five years in K-12 computer science education across the U.S. The company said Tuesday its Salesforce.org charity arm will offer 10 free Salesforce software subscriptions to all eligible public K-12 schools nationwide. Salesforce.org also plans to grant $1 million to nonprofit organization Code.org to help increase […] More

  • Belfer Center’s Melissa Hathaway to Discuss Cybersecurity in UN University-Hosted Conversation
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    Belfer Center’s Melissa Hathaway to Discuss Cybersecurity in UN University-Hosted Conversation

    Melissa Hathaway, a senior adviser at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will participate in a United Nations University-hosted conversation on cybersecurity to be held on Oct. 4 in Tokyo, Japan. Hathaway will discuss the current cybersecurity landscape and establishment of a universal framework for voluntary norms of behavior in cyber […] More

  • Roger Krone to Discuss Leidos’ Opioid Awareness Campaign at COMMIT!Forum
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    Roger Krone to Discuss Leidos’ Opioid Awareness Campaign at COMMIT!Forum

    Leidos CEO Roger Krone will discuss the company’s efforts to help address opioid abuse at the COMMIT!Forum, an event for corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioners scheduled to take place from Oct. 10 to 12 at MGM National Harbor in Maryland. Clay Stamp, an adviser to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, will join Krone in the discussion and […] More

  • Telos Report: 83% of Federal Employees, Contractors Support Mandatory Implementation of NIST Cyber Framework
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    Telos Report: 83% of Federal Employees, Contractors Support Mandatory Implementation of NIST Cyber Framework

    A new report by cybersecurity company Telos says 83 percent of federal employees and contractors support a mandate to implement the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Cybersecurity Framework across federal agencies. Telos said Tuesday the 2017 Public Sector Cyber Risk Management Report includes 257 responses from the attendees of Amazon Web Services‘ Public Sector Summit in June. President […] More

  • Hydroid Demos New Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
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    Hydroid Demos New Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

    Kongsberg Gruppen‘s Hydroid subsidiary has demonstrated the capacity of an unmanned underwater vehicle to collect signals intelligence and launch an unmanned aerial vehicle during an in-water exercise. REMUS 600 UUV conducted a threat mission scenario at the U.S. Navy‘s Advanced Naval Technology Exercise that took place in Newport, Rhode Island last month, Hydroid said Tuesday. The platform was equipped with […] More

  • Boeing’s Australia Subsidiary Develops Virtual Reality Simulator for CST-100 Starliner
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    Boeing’s Australia Subsidiary Develops Virtual Reality Simulator for CST-100 Starliner

    Boeing‘s Australia-based subsidiary has developed a virtual reality training platform for the CST-100 Starliner crew transportation spacecraft that the company currently builds for NASA. The VR trainer was created in Brisbane and is designed to provide an interactive, real-time simulation of the Starliner capsule, Boeing said Tuesday. The company added that the VR platform will supplement its […] More

  • Navy Receives 5th Freedom-Variant LCS From Lockheed, Fincantieri Marinette Marine
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    Navy Receives 5th Freedom-Variant LCS From Lockheed, Fincantieri Marinette Marine

    Lockheed Martin and naval shipbuilding company Fincantieri Marinette Marine  have delivered a fifth Freedom-variant littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy following the completion of  acceptance trials. The Navy accepted delivery of its future USS Little Rock and the service branch is scheduled to commission the new warship later this year, Lockheed said Monday. LCS9 received the highest […] More

  • Humanetics Secures DoD Grant for Anti-Radiation Drug Development
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    Humanetics Secures DoD Grant for Anti-Radiation Drug Development

    Humanetics has received a $3.8 million grant from the Defense Department to produce solid dosage forms of a drug currently in clinical development as a medical countermeasure for lethal toxicities related to radiation exposure. Th company said Tuesday it will further develop the BIO 300 drug for potential use by soldiers and first responders at high risk […] More

  • Polaris-ARA-Neya Systems Team to Offer Army Multimission Ground Vehicle Platform
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    Polaris-ARA-Neya Systems Team to Offer Army Multimission Ground Vehicle Platform

    Polaris Industries, Applied Research Associates and Neya Systems have forged an alliance to offer a multimission ground vehicle platform designed for infantry units through the U.S. Army‘s Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport program. Team Polaris’ MRZR X platform will feature ARA-built unmanned systems technology and Neya Systems-made autonomy behavior module, Polaris said Monday. The alliance seeks to help increase mobility […] More

  • NIST Picks 21 Small Businesses for Tech R&D Grants
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    NIST Picks 21 Small Businesses for Tech R&D Grants

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology will award approximately $3.9 million in total grants to 21 small businesses to research and develop novel technology platforms. NIST said Monday it selected the companies based on their submitted proposals that seek to address challenges across several technology areas such as collaboration and partnership; precision measurements; systems; data […] More

  • Industry Commends DoD Memo on Cloud Migration Effort; ViON’s Rob Davies Comments
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    Industry Commends DoD Memo on Cloud Migration Effort; ViON’s Rob Davies Comments

    Some industry executives have welcomed a Defense Department memorandum that seeks to accelerate the migration of the agency’s information technology systems to the cloud, MeriTalk reported Monday. “There’s a ton of innovation that’s available to the government and it just needs someone to take a risk,” said Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at […] More