A team of researchers supported by quantum information company Infleqtion at the University of Colorado has made an advancement in quantum navigation by combining quantum sensing with machine learning to demonstrate a quantum-enabled accelerometer designed for use in positioning, navigation and timing. The software-configured accelerator exhibited a reduction in sensor volume greater than a factor […] More

Leidos has secured a potential 66-month, $53 million task order from the U.S. Navy to study warfighters’ performance in air, water and special warfare settings and help increase their survivability in the mentioned environments. The company said Wednesday it will collect and analyze data, perform statistical analysis as well as provide computer programming and scientific reporting […] More

A joint venture between Atlas Research and Prometheus Federal Services has received a task order to help the Veterans Health Administration develop an organizational transformation plan for a program office focused on providing workforce development training resources and services to agency personnel. Titan Alpha will perform work to support VHA’s goal of transforming its employee […] More

NASA has selected Mercury Systems to provide solid-state data recorders to support mineralogy research missions aimed at assessing the impact of mineral dust on the Earth’s temperature.

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Dr. Lisa Porter, former deputy undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense, has returned to the Riverside Research board of trustees, the company reported on Monday. Porter has nearly 25 years of experience in the defense and technology industries and is currently the co-president and co-founder of LogiQ.

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Jacobs has partnered with NASA to help develop, test and deploy equipment to support a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to repair a large-scale instrument designed to detect antimatter particles in outer space.

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Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Vencore, has said the company’s applied research work would help differentiate Perspecta from other government information technology services contractors, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. Curtis will become CEO of Perspecta that will operate as a publicly traded company under the ticker symbol “PRSP” once DXC Technology completes by […] More

Assured Information Security has won a potential two-year, $47.9 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force researchers investigate cyber assessment tools designed for telecommunications systems. The Defense Department said Friday the company will support the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Investigation of Next-Generation Network Operations and Vulnerability Assessment Technology effort, or INNOVATE. AFRL received two offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract […] More

Leidos has received an initial task order under a potential 87-month, $47 million contract to develop sensing technology as part of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Electro-Optical Combined Hyperspectral Imaging, Infrared Search and Track, and Long Range Imaging program. The EO-CHIL program aims to counter anti-access and area denial threats environments with the use of extended-range […] More

Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary will collaborate with a team at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Michigan to carry out a space mission to study the sun. SSL said Monday the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment aims to launch a small satellite constellation designed to explore how solar energetic particles are accelerated and emitted into interplanetary […] More

NCI has been awarded a $9 million contract with CDO Technologies to extend the company’s information technology support for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory site in Rome, New York. NCI will work to engineer communications and computer core services, develop applications and test the cyber research network under the contract, the company said Wednesday. The contract […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has finished the critical design review of an atmospheric pollution measurement tool that the company is developing for NASA under the agency’s Earth Venture Instrument program. NASA plans to integrate the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution instrument into a commercial satellite to measure Earth’s ozone, nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde concentrations over […] More