The Space Development Agency has issued a broad agency announcement to solicit new systems, technologies and capabilities to upgrade future tranches of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a U.S. military sensing, custody
Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., have introduced the AI Grand Challenges Act, which would require the National Science Foundation to hold prize competitions for artificial intelligence innovations. The legislation
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Telos Corporation has opened 12 new sites for the Transportation Security Administration PreCheck program, which allows enrolled travelers expedited screening through airport security. The new enrollment centers in California, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi,
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The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has selected four startups to develop synthetic data generation capabilities for protecting privacy and mitigating security threats. Betterdata, DataCebo, MOSTLY AI and Rockfish
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The National Science Foundation has awarded over $6 million in research funding across seven projects to advance digital twin technologies for biomedical applications. The grants will help develop mathematical models for virtual
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President Joe Biden has signed into law the Building Chips in America Act of 2023, which seeks to simplify the national government’s permitting procedures for microchip manufacturing projects. The legislation intends to
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The Federal Acquisition Service should closely scrutinize pricing when consolidating multiple award schedule contracts to secure the lowest cost for government agencies, according to the General Services Administration’s Office of Inspector General.
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The U.S. Navy needs to better manage the risks associated with its project to acquire 12 Columbia class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines for $130 billion, according to the Government Accountability Office. In
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new program seeking to automatically translate obligations, permissions and prohibitions, known as deontic concepts, into logical programming language. The Human-AI Communications for Deontic
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The defense chiefs of the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have announced the winning companies of the first AUKUS Electronic Warfare Challenge. Launched in March, the competition aimed to identify
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The Department of Defense has started the groundwork to construct a concrete shield structure for the Project Pele transportable nuclear reactor at Idaho National Laboratory. Beginning In 2025, workers will build the
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