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    NVIDIA Expands Compatibility of Omniverse 3D Platform to Advance Scientific Research

    NVIDIA has made upgrades to its Omniverse 3D design platform to enable collaborative workflows in research and development projects conducted by government laboratories and defense companies. The technology company said Monday NVIDIA Omniverse is now compatible with various scientific computing visualization tools and facilitates batch workloads processed in its A100 and H100 Tensor Core graphics […] More

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    Former DOE Data Chief Emery Csulak to Lead Cybersecurity Compliance Efforts at Boston Government Services

    Emery Csulak, former chief data officer of the Department of Energy, has announced via LinkedIn his transition to Boston Government Services, where he will be focused on enterprise cybersecurity. As virtual chief information security officer and director of cybersecurity compliance at BGS, Csulak will be responsible for creating a cybersecurity maturity model certification team to […] More

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    Red Cat Board Adds Former Assistant Defense Secretary Mary Beth Long

    Mary Beth Long, former assistant secretary of the Department of Defense, has been appointed to the board of directors at Red Cat Holdings. In a statement published Monday, Red Cat CEO Jeff Thompson said Long’s insights will be critical to the company. “She’s a deeply knowledgeable expert in international security and defense strategy, especially relating […] More

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    Cubic Subsidiary to Begin Full-Rate Troposcatter Production for Marine Corps; Anthony Verna Quoted

    A Cubic business division has moved to the full-rate production phase of an acquisition program that will provide the U.S. Marine Corps a next-generation communications system designed to transmit microwave radio signals across the troposphere. Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions will manufacture the X-band tropospheric scatter technology, as part of a potential $325 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

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    Raytheon Subsidiary, Labor Department to Launch Student Apprenticeship in Texas

    Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business is collaborating with the Department of Labor to start a registered apprenticeship program for students at Collin College in McKinney, Texas, in an effort to bridge skills gap in the state. The program will be launched in 2023 to provide on-the-job training for manufacturing positions such as assembly technician, […] More

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    DHS Taps 2 Startups to Develop Video-Based Threat Detection Platforms

    The Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate has awarded two startup companies other transaction contracts to develop systems for monitoring potentially anomalous events in video footage. Flux Tensor of Kansas and Lauretta AI of Massachusetts respectively secured phase one awards worth $199,833 and $198,000 for the Securing Soft Targets project under the first […] More

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    2022 International Stability Operations Association Summit to Focus on Global Security Alliances

    More than 350 officials representing the U.S. government, military, non-governmental organizations, education sector, federal contractors and small businesses are expected to attend the International Stability Operations Association’s 16th annual summit on Nov. 17 and 18. This year’s conference will focus on how global stability operations providers are affected by issues amid situations in Ukraine and […] More

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    Army-Run National Ground Intell Hub Requires Cloud Adoption Tech Support

    The U.S. Army is seeking information from vendors on their capabilities to support a cloud adoption requirement at the National Ground Intelligence Center in Virginia for fiscal year 2023. NGIC needs technical support to migrate the Army’s military intelligence systems to the IC Information Technology Environment Cloud infrastructure, according to a sources sought notice posted […] More

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    Parsons Recognized for Military Veteran Employment Programs; Carey Smith Quoted

    Parsons has received several accolades for its initiatives to employ military veterans and LGBTQ+ individuals in active service. Specifically, the company was granted the HIRE Vets Medallion Award by the Department of Labor and was included in the GI Jobs Military Friendly Employers and the Military Times Best for Vets Employers lists, Parsons said Friday. […] More

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    SAIC Earns Several Recognitions for Driving Veteran Employment; Nazzic Keene Quoted

    Science Applications International Corp. has been included in Forbes magazine’s 2022 America’s Best Employers for Veterans for its efforts to hire and provide benefits to former U.S. military servicemen. The recognition is one of the awards received by SAIC this year for supporting transitioning soldiers through initiatives such as its Military/Veterans Employee Resource Group, the […] More

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    General Atomics UAS Shows Uninterrupted Connectivity in Multi-Orbit Satcom Demo; Hughes’ Rick Lober Quoted

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business, SES and Hughes Network Systems combined their technologies to conduct a higher data rate transmission of a multi-orbit satellite communications system. A demonstration event was held on Oct. 20 to show the resilience and capability of unmanned aerial vehicles to maintain high workload and mission-critical connectivity in congested and contested […] More

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    DARPA Seeks Info on RF Power Beaming Tech for Small UAS

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office issued a request for information as part of its plan to explore the use of radio frequency power beaming and relay in small unmanned aerial systems. The project is part of DARPA’s Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay program, which aims to enhance energy distribution and performance in […] More