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.
Read More »Xendee Awarded DoD Microgrid Resilience Design Support Contract
Xendee has been awarded a contract to develop a standardized design and modelling platform for the Department of Defense to increase resilience and security of microgrid systems at installations. The company said Tuesday it aims to help DoD use renewable energy, sustain critical activities and survive a power outage through an integrated microgrid infrastructure.
Read More »Mario Coracides Appointed Vectrus Enterprise Operations SVP; Chuck Prow Quoted
Vectrus announced on Thursday that Mario Coracides has been appointed senior vice president of enterprise vectrus operations. Coracides will provide leadership for a primary dimension of the business, which includes business advisory and program initiatives.
Read More »AWS, Arizona State University Open Innovation Center for Cloud-Based Smart City Dev’t
Amazon Web Services and the Arizona State University opened a new facility that will house efforts to harness cloud computing for the development of community-focused smart technologies.
Read More »Maxar, NASA Finish Preliminary Review of Asteroid Exploration Spacecraft Design
Maxar Technologies has completed a preliminary design review of spacecraft being developed to help NASA explore the metallic 16 Psyche asteroid for the first time and gain insight into how planet Earth formed.
Read More »Arizona State University, AWS to Support Smart City Development
Arizona State University and Amazon Web Services have partnered to address community limitations in the Phoenix area through the use of cloud technologies. The partnership will establish the ASU Smart City Cloud Innovation Center to support smart city designers, generate options for technology alternatives, boost economic development and facilitate distribution …
Read More »Intel Joins Arizona Public-Private Consortium for Autonomous Vehicle Safety
The state of Arizona has selected Intel to be a founding partner of a public-private consortium that aims to ensure the safety of automated vehicles. Intel said Thursday it will support the Institute for Automated Mobility in efforts to develop policies, identify research priorities and sponsor ancillary studies. The company intends to work with …
Read More »DARPA awards autonomous cybersecurity research contracts to STR, Arizona State University
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded an $8.7 million contract to Systems Technology and Research and a $7.5 million contract to Arizona State University to support DARPA’s Harnessing Autonomy for Countering Cyberadversary Systems program. DARPA received 30 offers for the project via a competitive acquisition process under an open broad agency …
Read More »Executive Spotlight: An Interview with Teresa Carlson, VP of Worldwide Public Sector at Amazon Web Services
ExecutiveBiz spoke with four-time Wash100 recipient Teresa Carlson about Amazon Web Services’ current offerings and output from the AWS re:Invent 2017 conference. On topics ranging from innovation in cloud computing to hyperscale in the public sector, here’s what she had to say: “We’ve seen our government customers use the cloud …
Read More »Navy Selects Charles River Analytics to Identify, Assess Bots on Social Media
Charles River Analytics has been awarded by the U.S. Navy a potential $2 million contract to perform analysis and identify “bots” on social media networks under an Office for Naval Research program. The Composable Hybrid Approach to Recognizing Bots and their Influence in Social Media Analysis or CHARISMA program aims to distinguish and assess risk, threats …
Read More »NASA-Backed Mission Aims to Shed Light on Interstellar Medium
NASA has picked a potential $40 million science mission that aims to measure emissions from the cosmic material – interstellar medium – that can be found among stars in order to generate data for use in research into the Milky Way galaxy. The Galactic/Extragalactic [Ultralong-Duration Balloon] Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory mission …
Read More »Charles River Analytics-Led Team to Develop Automated Cyber Attack Prediction System for IARPA
Charles River Analytics has secured a potential $10.5 million contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to help IARPA develop an automated system to forecast impending cyber attacks. Charles River Analytics said Tuesday it will lead an interdisciplinary team of professionals from Battelle, Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary, Assured Information Security, Arizona State …
Read More »NASA Selects 8 Universities to Participate in Small Spacecraft Projects
NASA has chosen eight university teams to work with the agency’s engineers and scientists on two-year projects to develop new small spacecraft technologies. The space agency said Saturday these collaborations aim to create small, lightweight spacecraft that could support science, exploration and space operations. NASA chose from a variety of submitted proposals …
Read More »DOE to Fund 14 Window Coating Devt Projects Through SHIELD Program
The Energy Department has awarded $31 million in total funds to support 14 window coating and windowpane development projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s Single-Pane Highly Insulating Efficient Lucid Design program. DOE said Monday ARPA-E’s SHIELD program seeks to retrofit single-pane windows through the development of novel window coatings …
Read More »MDA Subsidiary an Industrial Partner on Potential NASA Discovery Mission
A subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will support the research efforts of NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other institutions on the asteroid Psyche as an industrial partner on a potential Discovery mission. MDA said Thursday Space Systems/Loral will participate in work on concept design studies with Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator on the project and director …
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