The artificial intelligence tools and applications taking over the government and commercial technology landscapes today are some of the fastest growing in history. As AI continues its impressive trajectory and captures the interest of public and private sector leaders alike, new opportunities and challenges are emerging. To get a better grasp of the current AI […] More

In-Q-Tel has made a strategic investment in Fiddler to help the Palo Alto, California-based artificial intelligence platforms developer further advance its explainable AI tool development efforts. Fiddler also announced its participation in FinRegLab’s research to assess the fairness and transparency of machine learning models.

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Scientific Research Corp. has awarded Curtiss-Wright a contract to supply flight data and cockpit voice recording devices as part of a project to modernize the joint U.S. Air Force and Navy trainer fleet. Curtiss-Wright said Wednesday it will equip the T-6 Texan II military trainer aircraft with an updated version of the Fortress CVR25 recorder system.

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Joel Brunson, who holds more than 30 years of leadership experience, has joined Jazz Networks to serve as CEO of the firm’s federal business.

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Mobile technology firm Monkton has unveiled its Mission Mobility platform intended to help agencies build apps through the company's app-development offerings and a range of commercial technology.

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Verizon has led an effort to help a Defense Department agency migrate to a unified communications system that works to help users integrate voice, instant messaging, conferencing and video communications through a single platform. The telecommunications firm collaborated with Ribbon Communications, Black Box and Visioneering to advance the DoD agency’s transition to the UC platform, […] More

A team of scientists from IBM‘s research arm and Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has demonstrated an example of quantum computers’ advantage over standard computers. The scientific team published the results of its “Demonstration of quantum advantage in machine learning” study in the Nature Quantum Information journal, IBM said Wednesday. Researchers found that a quantum algorithm could identify an unknown string of bits using […] More

Iridium Communications eyes the possibility of launching by 2018 a satellite system that monitors an aircraft’s global positioning system transponder to help broadcast flight information in real time, CBS News reported Friday. “A global surveillance system can track that airplane down to the second and help you find it very quickly,” Iridium CEO Matt Desch told the news station. Existing systems […] More

Thales‘ in-flight entertainment and connectivity business and others in the aviation industry are eyeing broadband pipes for the transmission of non-safety Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System operational data, Runway Girl Network reported Thursday. Seth Miller writes that the transfer of ACARS data over broadband could present a potential threat to the in-flight connectivity system’s security. Dominique Giannoi, […] More

Pragmatics has received several task orders worth a total of at least $1 million to provide the U.S. Air Force with Enhanced 911 systems under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – 2 vehicle. The company said Monday it will engineer, test and integrate E911 systems for Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Joint […] More

Jonathan Moneymaker oversees areas such as corporate strategy, business development, capture and legislative affairs in his role as chief strategy officer at Altamira Corp., the company that formed out of the Invertix–Near Infinity merger last year. A former business unit general manager from Boeing, Moneymaker’s GovCon career includes leadership roles in mergers and acquisitions such as Anonymizer‘s combination […] More

Boeing‘s subsidiary Insitu will start to perform testing and development work on the propulsion system for the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle following Orbital Corp.‘s delivery of the first engine. Orbital said Tuesday that the internal-combustion engine was built specifically for small unmanned aircraft systems such as the ScanEagle. Terry Stinson, chief executive and managing director of Orbital, said the company will now move […] More