The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released a guidance proposal on Monday highlighting the importance of humans in technology innovation and invention. According to the USPTO’s guidance, inventorship analysis should focus on human contributions as generative AI and other AI tools play a greater role in technology innovation. Focusing on human contributions would ensure that […]
The U.S. Central Command has concluded a weeklong sprint to develop counter one-way unmanned aerial system capabilities. Sandtrap, a special event within the Department of Defense’s recurring Bravo hackathon series, saw coders prototype technology to improve cUAS process speed and accuracy, CENTCOM said Friday. The command explained that hosting coders at headquarters allows internal subject […]
UT-Battelle, operator and manager of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has purchased for ORNL a fleet of AgEagle Aerial Systems’ eBee X and eBee TAC drones, both government-approved unmanned aerial vehicles. ORNL’s Autonomous Systems group uses drones to improve its data collection for environmental and national security research in remote places. The […]
The National Science Foundation has allocated $35 million in research funding to seven teams advancing agricultural technologies and improving food and nutrition security. Among the selected projects is CropSmart, an artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled digital twin project led by George Mason University designed to provide on-demand, decision-ready solutions for users’ cropping goals using end-user […]
The Government Accountability Office is questioning the reliability of the Department of Homeland Security’s artificial intelligence use case inventory after identifying an incorrect entry. DHS officials confirmed to the watchdog that one cyber use case, a predictive model for sharing cyberthreat information, was wrongly added to the initial list, FedScoop reported. GAO wrote in a […]
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has granted Sunnyvale, California-based generative artificial intelligence technology firm Alan AI “Awardable” status in the CDAO Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. The company’s marketplace offering is a generative AI assistant that facilitates a wide range of workflow applications through user-friendly text and voice interfaces and AI decision-making […]
HII subsidiary Enlighten and the U.S. Coast Guard have collaborated to achieve “authority to operate” status on the service’s Surveyor integrated data environment platform. Enlighten helped the Coast Guard fortify the integrated data environment’s security, ensuring it could protect sensitive data needed by the service’s operations. It also allowed the service to have better access […]
The U.S. Congress and the Department of Defense are slated to review the AeroVironment Switchblade 600 attack drones as part of the Pentagon’s Replicator program, sources familiar with the matter revealed. According to the sources, the Switchblade 600 passed the initial assessment for the loitering munitions capability set after being tested during the U.S. Army’s […]
Defense solutions researchers from the AUKUS military alliance of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States followed up their initial work on artificial intelligence-powered drones in April 2023 with the testing of robotic vehicles in battlefield conditions. According to Kimberly Sablon, principal director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s trusted AI and autonomy and […]
SparkCognition Government Systems announced that it has entered into a Master Government Aggregator agreement with Carahsoft Technology to deliver artificial intelligence-enabled security solutions to the public sector. Carahsoft will make SGS’s Visual AI Advisor solution for government users through its reseller partners and government contracting vehicles. The Visual AI Advisor uses computer vision, deep learning […]
