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    BAE Inaugurates GPS Tech Center of Excellence in Iowa

    BAE Systems has opened a Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based facility that will house its GPS technology design, engineering and manufacturing operations and support business growth efforts. The company said Tuesday it invested $100 million in the construction of the new site, where its navigation and sensor systems business will be located. BAE’s new center of excellence […] More

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    Patent Office to Test IBM’s Intellectual Property Analysis Tech

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will host a project aimed at demonstrating an IBM artificial intelligence-based tool for the analysis of intellectual property data on inventions. The demo will center on the IBM IP Advisor with Watson platform, which includes the Watson Assistant AI technology and Watson Discovery for guided navigation and content insight […] More

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    Navy Taps Technica to Modernize Cybersecurity Risk Management Framework

    Technica has secured an other transaction agreement with the U.S. Navy to modernize the service branch’s risk management framework through a prototype application meant to enable integration and synchronization with day-to-day operations, configuration control and maintenance. Work is under the Information Warfare Research Project Consortium OTA, the information technology service management company said Monday. Technica […] More

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    USPTO Completes Pilot of Signature Automation Tech From Instabase, Satsyil

    A signature automation software that integrates technologies from Instabase and Satsyil has been selected for pilot tests by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The platform works to eliminate the need for manual matching of names and signatures in inventor oaths and reviewing of patent application documents, Instabase said Thursday. Instabase uses deep learning architecture […] More

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    Army Seeks Info on Integrated Logistics Services for Ground Combat Systems

    The U.S. Army is soliciting industry input for a contract it is planning to procure a range of logistics support for the Program Executive Office Ground Combat Systems. In a request for information notice on SAM.gov, the service branch said it is considering small businesses and other-than-small businesses to perform post-production sustainment logistics under the […] More

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    Micron Inks Community Investment Framework Following $100B New York Megafab Plan

    Micron Technology has signed a framework detailing its initial commitments to the community and workforce in New York where its semiconductor fabrication facility will be built using $100 billion in investments over a minimum period of two decades. The chip manufacturer said Thursday it is teaming up with Empire State Development to manage the Community […] More

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    Intelsat CEO Dave Wajsgras Sees Defense as Growth Driver

    Intelsat CEO Dave Wajsgras said he considers defense and mobility as key channels for future growth at the satellite communications services provider. “Having years of experience in defense, I can definitely help here,” he told Via Satellite in an interview. Wajsgras, a two-decade industry veteran who took the helm of Intelsat in April, shared his […] More

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    DARPA Funds Charles River Analytics’ Human-Machine Interface Modeling R&D

    Charles River Analytics looks to help the Department of Defense integrate human-machine interface modeling into the early design phases of artificial intelligence systems used in air and space operations. The company said Tuesday it received over $9 million in funding to develop modeling platforms under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Enhancing Design for Graceful […] More

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    Palantir, FDA Expand Supply Chain Analytics Partnership

    Palantir Technologies has booked a $22 million contract with the Food and Drug Administration to serve as the central operating platform for the agency’s initiative to ensure food supply chain resilience. The deal builds on Palantir’s existing partnership with the FDA for its 21 Forward program, which was created in 2020 to modernize approaches to […] More

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    Cherokee Federal Secures DHA Contract to Support Military EHR Implementation

    A Cherokee Federal business was tapped by the Defense Health Agency to provide services related to the implementation of the Military Health System Genesis under a $33.7 million award. Cherokee Nation Operational Solutions, which won a similar contract in 2020, is expected to perform work on the firm-fixed-price contract in various military treatment facilities outside […] More

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    CrowdStrike, Ernst & Young Strengthen Partnership on Cloud Services

    CrowdStrike is extending its partnership with Ernst & Young to provide cloud network security and observability services to their customers worldwide. The new agreement centers on using CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform to equip DevSecOps teams with Cloud Security and Observability to help prevent data breaches in on-demand computing, the company said Tuesday. EY currently utilizes CrowdStrike’s […] More