Xwing will showcase its uncrewed flight capabilities to the U.S. Army through a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research contract under the Army xTech SBIR Autonomy program that would enable its participation in live operational demonstrations to perform autonomous airlift and logistic missions. Autonomous technologies will bridge mission capability gaps to improve transport, force structure […]
The U.S. Army is seeking insights into kinetic capabilities that can shoot down unmanned aerial systems. According to a sources sought notice posted by Army Aviation and Missile Command, the counter-UAS solution must use a rapid-fire cannon that can automatically target and shoot down drones. The command’s ideal solution is a turreted system that can […]
Army Col. Richard Leach, director of intelligence at the Defense Information Systems Agency, said that artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies present advantages and threats to cybersecurity. Speaking at the Digital Protection Summit on Thursday, Leach said the growth of remote work during the global pandemic provided hackers with a new opportunity to access an […]
Gen. James Slife, newly confirmed U.S. Air Force vice chief of staff, said he will be turning to industry for assistance in using data more effectively to improve the service branch’s training, maintenance and other operations. Speaking at a recent AFCEA luncheon, Slife observed that many USAF databases are unorganized for generating service-wide solutions. He […]
The National Science Foundation is seeking proposals from academia and industry experts to advance protein design using artificial intelligence. Under the agency’s Use-Inspired Acceleration of Protein Design program, the NSF will award funding worth $40 million over three years to accelerate new protein design applications in various fields, including medicine and environmental protection, Nextgov/FCW reported. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate evaluated counter-unmanned aerial system technologies during two live demonstrations held in the summer of 2023. The first demonstration, held in July at Camp Grafton South in North Dakota, focused on drones that can be taken down using kinetic mitigation systems, which include lasers, projectiles, nets and […]
The Missile Defense Agency has completed the first Knowledge Point review of Lockheed Martin’s progress on the Next Generation Interceptor program, part of a ground-based missile defense network designed to protect the United States against long-range missile threats. According to Lockheed, KP1 was accomplished ahead of schedule in November following the program’s All Up Round […]
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., has raised potential areas for artificial intelligence legislation to further regulate the technology’s adoption. Speaking at the recent Federal News Network’s AI and Data Exchange webinar, Warner described President Joe Biden’s AI executive order as broad and needs further legislation like the proposed Federal AI Risk Management Act of 2023 that […]
Task Force Lima, a new unit handling the Department of Defense generative artificial intelligence adoption, is finalizing the release of a digital testbed for defense community trials and experiments on various AI solutions. U.S. Navy Capt. Manuel Xavier Lugo, the task force commander, said during a recent Chief Digital and AI Office event that the […]
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Astronautics Corporation of America a Phase 1 cybersecurity research contract to better understand the scope of aviation-related data and the underlying architectures that support the transmission and use of data. The contract will see Astronautics’s avionics cybersecurity assurance group working on identifying, categorizing and characterizing the data and data […]
