PsiQuantum will further develop the photonic approach to quantum computing under a $22.5 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said Wednesday it will work with AFRL to design, develop and produce quantum photonic chips at GlobalFoundries’ semiconductor foundry in Malta, New York. Quantum photonic chips can process and control qubits based […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will expand the workforce of its SRE Birmingham arm and invest in its advanced concepts engineering facility over the next five years to drive business growth. The company said Tuesday it will hire 76 engineers, technicians and support staff to add to its current 140-employee count and further contribute to […] More

AI SpaceFactory and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida have released their design for their proposed 3D-printed lunar outpost called LINA. The company said Thursday design work on LINA is being carried out under NASA’s 2020 Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity project called Relevant Environment Additive Construction Technology. AI SpaceFactory is the previous winner of NASA’s […] More

PAR Technology‘s federal business arm will provide the Air Force Research Laboratory with counter-small unmanned aircraft system software and hardware under a potential eight-year, $490.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the AFRL Information Directorate. The company said Wednesday its PAR Government Systems subsidiary will design, prototype, test, integrate and support C-sUAS technologies as part of the […] More

A lightweight system was introduced by Charles River Analytics, with funding support from the U.S. Navy, to allow kayaks to autonomously collect parameter data in coastal environments. The company said Tuesday its Modular Oceanographic Autonomous Navigating Assessor, developed under a $500,000 Navy contract, works to measure bathymetry, water column constituents, benthic properties, hyperspectral radiometry and […] More

The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded Dewberry a potential five-year, $850 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to procure a wide range of products and services in support of the agency’s geospatial activities. The company said Friday it will perform airborne lidar, interferometric synthetic aperture radar, geophysical surveys, elevation-derived hydrography and other support services required by USGS’ National […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Assured Information Security a potential $95 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the third phase of its development of an enterprise-scale system that uses antifragile concepts to execute the enterprise software. Under the Antifragility Workstation for Resiliency effort, the Rome, New York-based company will expand the antifragility techniques built in the […] More

BAE Systems is looking to introduce miniature spectrometers for microsatellites to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gather high-resolution weather and climate data, SpaceNews reported Monday.

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Xerox's PARC subsidiary will build additional solar-powered drifters under the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to collect ocean data using a floating distributed network. PARC produced 1,500 floating devices during the initial phase of DARPA's Ocean of Things program and aims to provide up to 10K compact units for the next round, Xerox said Thursday.

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Google Cloud has entered into a five-year agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE) to provide access to a variety of Google Cloud technologies to help the department scale research efforts and drive innovation across DOE national labs and field sites, the company announced Thursday. "Our work with Google Cloud is helping us reduce the friction and pivot to innovation," said  Rocky Campione.

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SRC helped General Atomics' aeronautical systems business integrate and test an embedded computing architecture with an MQ-9 Reaper drone as part of an Air Force Research Laboratory effort to facilitate autonomous missions.

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Rich Uhlig, a senior fellow at Intel, wrote in an editorial published Tuesday that the company is advancing research on emerging technologies to improve learning and virtual work experiences, speed up pathogen surveillance and protect privacy in health data sharing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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