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The Missile Defense Agency has requested companies to submit concepts for a “Sea-Based Terminal Future Interceptor” that counters hypersonic missile threats. The agency is asking industry players for technologies for a layered defense based on a multi-mission terminal-phase interceptor that functions with midcourse weapons to combat future hypersonic attacks. Interested organizations are required to provide descriptions […]

Systems Planning and Analysis has announced that it will support Science Applications International Corporation’s work on the Navy’s hypersonic weapons program as a subcontractor. SAIC is the prime holder of a five-year $63.5M contract to support the Global Deterrence and Defense Department at Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Indiana, the company said. “Conventional Prompt […]

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. announced that it has flight-tested the Sparrowhawk small unmanned aircraft system in a captive carry configuration. According to AS-ASI, the Sparrowhawk is a launch and recovery aircraft designed with a focus on the Advanced Battle Management System’s attritableONE technologies. “Sparrowhawk extends and multiplies MQ-9-based sensors, reduces manpower and increases ISR […]

The Cyber Innovation Center, an innovation partner of the Air Force Global Strike Command, has selected Honeywell to develop a minimum viable prototype that will inform how the AFGSC will protect its mobile assets from small unmanned aerial systems. Honeywell will perform work under a contract award resulting from Strikewerx’s Mobile C-sUAS Swarming Defeat Challenge […]

The Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System Office has completed demonstrating the capabilities of prototype counter-unmanned aerial systems solutions. Clear Align, ELTA and Anduril are among the businesses that signed up their prototypes for the demonstration. The solutions featured at least four sensor types: electro-optical and infrared cameras, radars and radio-frequency scanners. The C-UAS prototypes could […]

The U.S. Army has awarded Enveil a contract to provide secure artificial intelligence capabilities for Project Linchpin. The Army initiative aims to develop an AI and machine learning operations pipeline to support the modernization efforts of the Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors. Under the Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovation Research […]

The Defense Innovation Board has held a closed-door meeting to discuss the challenges impacting military drones, as confirmed by DIB members Michael Mullen and Charles Phillips. The discussion identified critical shortcomings in current uncrewed systems, including high costs, susceptibility to electronic warfare disruption and subpar battlefield performance, DefenseScoop reported. Michael Bloomberg, who leads the board, […]

The multi-agency Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee and the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council, comprising private entities, have jointly developed guidelines for banks and financial institutions’ safe adoption of cloud technologies, particularly for small companies.  Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an FBIIC member, noted that the U.S. financial system is […]

Government experts said streamlining data is the key to the secure adoption of generative artificial intelligence for various federal applications. Speaking at an ATARC panel Thursday, Chakib Chraibi, the chief data scientist at the Department of Commerce’s National Technical Information Service, said unstructured data brings cybersecurity challenges, including data poisoning, hallucination and prompt injection that […]

The Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking research proposals that maximize the benefits offered by artificial intelligence in advancing technologies and techniques for next-generation target-tracking solutions. Under the advanced research announcement on Thursday, the AFRL seeks new algorithms, techniques and methods for 3D pixel and point cloud processing; ingestion and processing of GPS, inertial navigation […]