The U.S. Army is offering a $25 million contract for the development of wearable sensors with the capability for the pre/very early symptomatic detection of COVID-19 infection. The Request for Project Proposals (RPP) is offered […]
The Space and Missile Systems Center’s special programs directorate of the U.S. Space Force has announced that its new version of a ground-based communications jammer – The Counter Communications System Block 10.2 (CCS) – has […]
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 […]
Researchers at the University of Central Florida have received a $500,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to develop a portable detection system that could help firefighters and others accurately detect blazes and […]
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded separate $1.6 million contracts to Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. and Signature Science LLC for the development of new kinds of biological sensors that can detect […]
Nalu Scientific, which specializes in advanced integrated circuits, and Space Micro, which is focused on satellite electronics, have been selected for funding by the U.S. Air Force in a program designed to help the agency […]
The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded General Motors (GM) a total of $9.1 million as part of its 2019 fiscal year award funds – $2 million of which is explicitly related to research and […]
Researchers led by Andrew Rae of the University of the Highlands and Islands Perth College in Scotland have developed and flown the first aircraft powered by variable-buoyancy propulsion. The ‘Phoenix’ demonstrator aircraft uses a technology […]
The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has chosen Rockwell Collins to provide its latest-generation Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receiver (DIGAR) for its Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve F-16 aircraft operating in contested, […]
A recently approved directive by the U.S. Navy has formally elevated electronic warfare and the underlying electromagnetic spectrum to the status of a “warfighting battle space” equivalent to its sea, air, land, space, and cyber […]
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