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 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 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 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 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 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract to Exiger and MetalMiner to develop technology enhance supply chain resilience and national security. The award is in line with the Open Price Exploration for National Security program, which aims to increase transparency in critical commodity pricing, supply demand and capacity forecasting, Exiger said. Under […]
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has announced the signing of a statement of intent for U.S.-Singapore cooperation in defense data analytics and artificial intelligence deployment. Signed by the Department of Defense’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer and Singapore’s deputy defense secretary for technology, the SOI will promote ethical AI use and interoperability of U.S. […]
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 […]
Three Democratic senators have asked the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the big tech companies for their artificial intelligence consolidation activities, which involve hiring talents and getting access to products from AI startups without formally acquiring them. In a letter to the FTC and the DOJ, Sens. […]
