Israeli defense contractor Elbit recently announced that its American subsidiary, Elbit Systems of America, has received a firm-fixed-price contract with a ceiling of approximately $471 million over a 10-year period to equip F-16 aircraft of […]
The Underwater Multi-Sensor (UMS) test pool at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) recently underwent renovations and upgrades. UMS is a 9-million gallon (~35,000,000 liter) freshwater test pool that provides an […]
Researchers from the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan School of Engineering are examining ways to redesign how electricity is distributed within power grids. Their research proposes a power system operation that would consist of multiple […]
Delivery drones are now capable of delivering supplies to marines in combat, allowing emergency food and ammunition deliveries in a short amount of time. The autonomous drones can carry 60 pounds (~ 27 kilos) of […]
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded L3Harris Technologies a multi-million dollar contract to develop a software platform that will make it easier for analysts to use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify objects […]
Penn State will launch a new, multi-unit research center this spring – The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence – with the goal of promoting the thoughtful development and application of AI and […]
Exyn Technologies – a spinoff of the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory – has introduced a new mission behavior for military surveillance and reconnaissance missions called Scoutonomy. Built on […]
The US Navy has awarded Ameresco a task order for a $58 million energy resilience project at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY). Ameresco will build upon existing infrastructure to provide a high level of redundancy […]
Researchers from the University of California Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine, in partnership with Chenega Healthcare Services, LLC and MedCognition, have been awarded $1.2 million from the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium to study the potential […]
The US Department of Defense has launched its artificial intelligence strategy emphasizing that the United States – and its allied partners – must adopt AI to maintain its strategic position to prevail on future battlefields […]
Researchers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane) have released Crane’s first open source project to provide warfighters with more advanced systems. The open source software project was developed to support the […]
The European Defense Agency (EDA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are partnering on two new projects that will explore unknown or potentially hazardous environments: using drones to monitor disaster-stricken regions or toxic spill sites; […]
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