The U.S. Navy has awarded a $13.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract to Advanced Acoustic Concepts for the procurement of the Common Acoustic Simulation Environment Fidelity Implementation system to support P-8A and MH-60R operators. The Defense Department said Monday CASE-FI works to provide tactical operational flight trainers and weapons tactics trainers updated anti-software warfare tactical environment platforms. The Naval Air Warfare Center […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Advanced Acoustic Concepts a $27.5 million contract modification to support the mission software package for Littoral Combat Ships. AAC will help the Navy fabricate, test, install, trouble shoot and maintain LCS mission modules, the Defense Department said Friday. Work under the modification will occur in Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania and is scheduled to be completed […] More

NASA has awarded $100,000 Phase 1 contracts for 13 selected proposals under its Innovative Advanced Concepts program that works to invest in the development of innovative aerospace technologies. The selected Phase 1 projects seek to develop technology for future aerospace missions and address requirements for priority areas that aim to explore beyond low-Earth orbit, Mars and asteroids, NASA said Saturday. […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started soliciting concepts that could be developed into new technologies to enable warfighters to defend and protect space systems from adversaries as part of the space superiority topic of DARPA’s Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government Systems program. Interested offerors for the space superiority technical domain may […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started soliciting concepts that could be developed into new technologies to enable warfighters to defend and protect space systems from adversaries as part of the space superiority topic of DARPA’s Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government Systems program. More

The Air Force Research Laboratory has started soliciting information on technical approaches and concepts to evaluate, adapt and redeploy artificial intelligence models in the battlespace during missions. AFRL is interested in potential use cases of AI models within Air Force systems that would catalyze the need for the battle management of AI process, according to […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking concepts focused on enhancing designs, components, production and processing for next generation antenna, the first topic under its Bringing Classified Innovation to Defense and Government Systems program.  The objective is to explore new antenna designs that offer substantially boosted performance or a significant reduction in size, weight, […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry for concepts on information systems and electronic communications that can support troops operating in jungle environments. DARPA said May 7 in a SAM.gov notice its SQUad Intelligent Robotic Radio Enhancing Link or SQUIRREL is meant to provide small military units boosted situational awareness in forest operations.

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The U.S. Air Force has released a request for information on artificially intelligent technologies capable of providing critical infrastructure security and enabling base defense operations while building off of the service branch's existing facility defense concepts.

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Advanced Reactor Concepts, General Atomics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will collectively receive a total of $70.4M in funds from the Department of Energy to mature their nuclear reactor concepts as part of the fiscal year 2020 iteration of a technology demonstration program.

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William Conley, chief technology officer of Mercury Systems, has been named to the board of advisers at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Defense Concepts and Technology in Washington, D.C.

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Joe Richard, a mission manager at Raytheon Technologies, has said that organizations should consider investing in cyber resilience capabilities to improve systems’ capacity to withstand sophisticated attacks while preventing data loss and downtimes.

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