Shield AI has acquired Heron Systems for an undisclosed sum to further expand its artificial intelligence engineering and reinforcement learning capabilities. Heron Systems is a software company founded in 1993 and is known for developing an AI pilot that emerged undefeated against a human Air Force F-16 fighter pilot in five rounds of simulated air...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected three teams of researchers led by BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) to produce low-latency, low-power, event-based infrared cameras as part of the Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics program. “Event-based cameras operate under ...
Terence Emmert, acting deputy undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense, was selected by Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting and branding government and government contracting (GovCon) executives of consequence, as a recipient of a 2021 Wash100 Award for the first time in his long federal ca...
Federal acquisition processes must be on the cutting edge of technology to stay operable and efficient. Federal leaders have worked to modernize their acquisition systems to increase the adoption rate of innovative solutions, including information technology (IT), cloud and other critical emerging technologies. Agencies need to continue to implement...
General Atomics, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Blue Origin have received contracts to conduct risk reduction efforts for the first phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aiming to build and demonstrate nuclear thermal propulsion technology. The three companies will aim to design propulsion systems and spacecraft concepts for ...
Federal acquisition processes must be on the cutting edge of technology to stay relevant and efficient. Federal leaders have worked to modernize their acquisition systems so as to increase the adoption rate of innovative solutions, including information technology (IT), cloud and other emerging technologies. Agencies must continue to implement new a...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have teamed up on a program to advance the domestic production of structured application specific integrated circuit platforms for defense electronic systems. Intel said Thursday it will collaborate with the University of Florida, Texas A&M University and University of Maryla...
Since its inception in 2019, the Space Development Agency (SDA) has continually worked to develop and modernize architecture concepts, systems designs, innovative technologies and emerging capabilities to enable leaders across the space domain to leverage next-generation space capabilities that increase warfighters’ lethality, maneuverability and ...
Stacy Kubieck, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s Mission Solutions, acted as the moderator for an expert panel discussion during Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 SDA Forum on March 4th, 2021. The following panelists discussed SDA’s multi-year plan to create cutting edge satellite constellation networks to provide U.S. militar...
SEAKR Engineering has won a two-year, $60.5 million contract to further develop supercomputing processing hardware in the next phases of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aiming to integrate commercial technology into small military satellites. DARPA will initially obligate $8.06 million to the Centennial, Colorado-based space elec...
