The U.S. Army Engineer and Development Center (ERDC) has awarded a $3.8M contract to US Ignite to design and deploy a ‘Smart Installation and Community Dashboard’ at Fort Benning in Columbus, GA. The Dashboard is […]
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded a $15.4 million contract to Areté Associates for the further development of the Pushbroom Imaging LiDAR for Littoral Surveillance (PILLS) system. PILLS is a compact lightweight light detection […]
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a broad agency announcement for the In the Moment (ITM) project. ITM seeks to develop the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies […]
Owls are known to be excellent predators, in part due to their ability to fly quietly and stealthily. Researchers from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJU) are examining owl wings in hopes of applying that knowledge to […]
Project Vermeer is a collaborative effort between the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the U.S. Naval Research Department to test the use of synthetic kerosene as a fuel source for all platforms – from remotely […]
Autonomous systems researchers at the University of South Australia (UniSA), Flinders University, and Australian defense company Midspar Systems have reverse engineered the visual systems of hoverflies to detect drones’ acoustic signatures from almost four kilometers […]
DARPA has awarded contracts to Raytheon BBN and to the University of Southern California (USC) for its Quantum Benchmarking program. The program will seek new methods of measuring the long-term utility of – and best […]
The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded a contract modification to Leidos to install the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) shipboard sonar undersea warfare systems aboard Navy combat vessels. Lockheed Martin’s AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 is designed to search […]
The Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded a $252 million eight-year contract to Northrop Grumman Mission Systems for the Next Generation Targeting Handheld System (NGHTS). NGHTS combines target location, laser spot imaging, and laser target […]
DARPA has launched its Robust Optical Clock Network (ROCkN) program with the aim of creating optical atomic clocks to improve time synchronization. ROCkN expects to replace GPS atomic clocks with practical, super-accurate optical atomic clocks […]
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