IvySys Technologies has received a potential $4.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory on behalf of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help create mathematical and computational strategies that can model adversarial activity. The DARPA Information Innovation Office’s four-year MAA program will use the new approaches in …

A Deltek analysis of the Defense Department‘s proposed fiscal 2018 research, development and procurement budget indicates that DoD is seeking approximately $2.4 billion per year to fund programs that include artificial intelligence and machine learning systems through fiscal 2022. Alex Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, wrote in a blog entry posted …

The European Space Agency has selected Airbus to be the prime contractor on a project to build a new satellite-based augmentation system that can support “safety of life” and other services across the aviation sector. Airbus said Friday it will help the agency produce EGNOS V3 in efforts to boost the performance …

Atlas Dynamics and Luxriot have teamed up to create drone-based products and services for first-responders, defense and security markets. Atlas Dynamics said Monday it will combine its autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle expertise with the Luxriot Evo Video Management Software to develop technologies that can impact the aforementioned markets. Ainars Svirskis, business …

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory expects to receive a neuromorphic supercomputer system from IBM in the summer to support the lab’s deep neural-network learning and information discovery tasks, Signal Magazine reported Monday. The machine will feature IBM’s TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System along with an end-to-end software ecosystem, pattern recognition and sensory processing tools. AFRL …

India-based investment firm Stellaris Venture Partners has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Cisco‘s investments unit, Live Mint reported Monday. The technology venture capital fund invests in business- and consumer-centric start-ups that offer analytics, cloud, enterprise application and Internet of Things products and services. Sameer Garde, president of Cisco …

Sonalysts, Systems Engineering Associates and Transtecs have won spots on a potential $49.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to build classrooms, laboratory environments and training systems. The Defense Department said Friday all three small businesses will vie for Waterfront Surface Trainers Program support orders from the Navy and the Philippine …

The Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center has inked a cooperative research and development agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to boost capacities for information sharing and analysis of vehicle cyber threats. Auto-ISAC said Thursday the partnership will look to provide vehicle cyber threat information access to the DHS National …

NASA and Lockheed Martin have evaluated the solar arrays of a future Mars robotic lander technology inside a clean room at the company’s facility in Littleton, Colorado. The space agency said Tuesday its Jet Propulsion Laboratory led the InSight evaluation process wherein the platform deployed its solar arrays while in a landed configuration …

The U.K. ministry of defense has formally accepted a BAE Systems-built River-class offshore patrol vessel designed to help protect the country’s territories and interests worldwide. HMS Forth will remain at the Scotstoun yard in Glasgow, Scotland for additional work before its commissioning at the Portsmouth Naval Base later this year, BAE said …

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a market research effort to explore potential industry sources of support services for IRS’ Information Technology Enterprise Program Management Office. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the agency wants to know the availability, capability and interests of companies to help the IT EPMO plan, manage and …

A Research and Markets report forecasts the worldwide market for targeting pods will experience a 6.61 percent compound annual growth rate in the next five years as military agencies increase aircraft procurement and modernization efforts. The targeting pods market’s value is projected to increase from $3.3 billion in 2017 to $4.5 billion by 2022, …

NTT Data will offer GDS360-built information protection and data security platforms to the former’s public sector client base as part of a multi-year teaming agreement. GDS360 said Wednesday its end-to-end products combine elements such as zero-knowledge encryption key management, user identity management, behavioral analytics and access audits to help clients meet …

The Welsh government has received a Jacobs Engineering Group-built virtual reality visualization environment which will be used to aid construction work on two sections of the South Wales-based A465 Heads of Valley highway project. Jacobs said Wednesday the VR platform adds to the company’s support for the A465 project which …

A Cisco-built cloud security offering has received an authority to operate at the moderate level from the program management office of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Nick Michaelides, vice president of Cisco’s U.S. federal sales organization, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the Cloudlock platform also met eligibility …