Aptima will equip the U.S. Navy with a data-driven tracking and training management system designed to support surface warfighter readiness through the collection and synthesizing of sailor performance and qualifications information. The Surface Combat Systems Training Command placed a delivery order for the Aptima-made Surface Training and Readiness Management System to help assess, monitor and […] More

Roger Edwards, managing director and co-founder of Gem City Business Solutions, has been appointed as chief commercialization officer of an Aptima subsidiary focused on commercializing early-stage technologies. He will oversee all aspects of commercialization in his new role at Aptima Ventures, building on the company’s research and development portfolio for the Department of Defense, Aptima […] More

An Ohio-based startup company of Aptima will further develop technology the Air Force Research Laboratory designed to monitor the safety of aircraft maintainers who work in tight spaces. AFRL said Friday its 711th Human Performance Wing transitioned the Confined Space Monitoring System prototype to Sentinel Operational Security for final development, demonstration and potential commercialization under the Small Business Innovation Research program.

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Aptima and Arizona State University have secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create artificial intelligence agents to facilitate human-AI interaction in military operations.

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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Aptima two contracts worth $667,000 combined to expand the functionality of an information fusion platform designed to integrate data from various sources. Aptima and the Air Force Research Laboratory will collaborate to equip the TID-BIT system with additional functions that will work to help intelligence analysts determine the source […] More

Woburn, Massachusetts-based human centered technology engineering company Aptima has received a $12.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a virtual training environment for the military branch’s Distributed Common Ground System operations. Aptima said Wednesday the DCGS virtual training system will be built to help the Air Force produce actionable intelligence from a global network of systems and sensors. “By simulating the […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Aptima a $12,425,604 contract to develop a virtual training environment for use in Air Force Distributed Common Ground System operations. Aptima will provide geospatial intelligence full motion video, high altitude imagery, synthetic aperture radar imagery, electro optical imagery and infrared imagery to DCGS sites, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

Five companies have secured 18-month grants from the U.S. Army to continue developing prototypes of mission critical technologies as part of the second phase of the Small Business Innovation Research Program. The service branch said Thursday it awarded up to $1.7 million to each SBIR participant to support the transition of artificial intelligence and machine […] More

Twelve companies have each received a $750K grant to support the U.S. Air Force’s space technology needs, Space News reported Tuesday.

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The U.S. Army has selected ManTech International for the next phase of a collaborative effort to develop a Persistent Cyber Training Environment prototype as part of an other transaction agreement with the National Security Technology Accelerator.

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Hologic has received a one-year, $4.1 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services to further develop a test that works to detect Zika virus in donated blood. The company’s Procleix Zika Virus Assay is designed to detect for up to seven days the presence of ribonucleic acid linked to the mosquito-borne virus […] More

Massachusetts-based medical technology developer Hologic has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a device the company developed to help clinicians detect Zika virus infections. Hologic said Friday its Aptima molecular diagnostic assay is designed for qualitative detection of ribonucleic acid from the mosquito-borne virus in human blood samples. The assay is based on the company’s Panther system that works to […] More