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IBM plans to invest $240 million in the construction of a new artificial intelligence research laboratory that the company will operate in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company said Thursday its 10-year investment in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab will aid research efforts of scientists from both institutions. The partnership aims to further develop […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has received a potential $38.7 million order to supply tail rotor blades for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of CH/MH-53E helicopters. Sikorsky is scheduled to complete deliveries under the firm-fixed-price, sole-source order by Sept. 30, 2023, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Defense Logistics Agency‘s aviation unit is the contracting activity. MH-53E is based […] More
A new Unisys survey has found that 59 percent of federal information technology executives said they think IT modernization programs at their agencies have led to a rise in security challenges. Unisys said Wednesday it commissioned research firm Market Connections to poll 200 IT leaders at federal civilian and defense agencies and found that 43 […] More
Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a $38.6 million contract to develop incremental software that will work to increase the performance of the U.S. Air Force‘s advanced medium-range air-to-air missile system. The company will provide AIM-120D AMRAAM software to the military branch as part of the System Improvement Program 3- Engineering Manufacturing, Development program, the Defense Department […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s information innovation office has begun to seek research concepts in the areas of cyber, analytics and symbiosis that aim to provide the U.S. and its allies information advantage. A broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps says I2O is interested in unconventional research approaches that seek to make technology advancements […] More
General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has announced the inclusion of five additional companies to an industry team that will support Australia’s Project Air 7003 that seeks to build a medium-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft platform. Rockwell Collins‘ Australian arm, Airspeed, Ultra Electronics Australia, Quickstep Holdings and TAE Aerospace have joined Team Reaper Australia, General Atomics said Wednesday. Linden Blue, CEO […] More
Microsoft has launched its specialized storage account service in the US Gov Virginia region of the Azure Government cloud environment. Kyle Deeds, a program manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that the Blob Storage accounts feature has been enabled in three regions including US Gov Arizona and US Gov Texas. Blob […] More
Lockheed Martin and EchoStar have retrieved the EchoStar III communications satellite in a joint operation that culminated in its deactivation and relocation to a graveyard orbit. The satellite’s retirement was executed in line with Federal Communications Commission rules in response to an incident involving the satellite in July, Lockheed said Wednesday. EchoStar unveiled in early August that […] More
The Department of Homeland Security‘ science and technology directorate has awarded $8.6 million in contracts to five research and development projects that aim to help increase the security of mobile applications for the federal government. Recipients of the grants are Apcerto, Lookout, United Technologies Corp.‘s research center, Qualcomm and a Red Hat–Kryptowire team, DHS said Wednesday. The projects […] More
Science Applications International Corp. and Vazata have partnered to offer government agencies a cloud technology platform certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. SAIC can distribute Virtual Secure Cloud Platform, for which Vazata secured provisional authority to operate through FedRAMP, as part of the partnership deal, Vazata said Wednesday. The agreement also designates Vazata as the exclusive […] More
Troy Lahr, vice president of investor relations at Boeing, has been appointed as chief financial officer of the aerospace and defense contractor’s autonomous systems business in a move that takes effect Sept. 22. The Chicago-based company said Wednesday Lahr will also serve on the board of directors of Boeing and Lockheed Martin‘s joint venture United Launch Alliance. […] More
The Army Educational Outreach Program has kicked off registration for the military branch’s 16th annual eCYBERMISSION competition for students in grade six through nine. AEOP said Thursday the online competition, administered by the National Science Teachers Association, seeks to expand students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Student teams have an opportunity to compete on the state, regional […] More
