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Naomi Cooper

is a full-time writer for ArchIntel, a division of Executive Mosaic, and a contributor for ExecutiveBiz. She covers emerging technologies, technology innovation, contract awards, partnerships and market expansion stories in the government contracting industry.

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  • in News, Space

    Lockheed’s Eric Brown Talks Regulatory Roadblocks in Supplying Defense Space Tech to Allies

    Eric Brown, vice president for mission strategy and advanced capabilities at Lockheed Martin, said policy and security requirements are hindering U.S. defense companies from addressing the increasing demand for space technologies from international military customers, SpaceNews reported Monday. “We’re seeing greater collaboration among nations from a military and operational perspective. But frankly, policy and security […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    BigBear.ai to Continue Developing Army’s Global Force Information Management System

    BigBear.ai will continue its work with the U.S. Army to develop a global data platform designed to help commanders make informed force structure decisions. Under the six-month, $8.5 million contract extension, BigBear.ai will collaborate with Deloitte, Appian and Ignite IT to build the Global Force Information Management system that will serve as the service’s enterprise-wide […] More

  • in News

    DIU Seeks Mitigation Tech to Reduce 5G Co-Channel Interference

    The Defense Innovation Unit has issued a commercial solutions opening seeking technologies to minimize C-band co-­channel interference between satellite communications and 5G systems. DIU said it is looking to prototype a mitigation system that will work to isolate received satcom signals in the presence of 5G radio frequency interference to produce sustainable, high-quality satcom signal […] More

  • in Artificial Intelligence, News

    LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Haywood Talcove Warns Against AI-Backed Financial Fraud

    Haywood Talcove, CEO of the government group at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, has joined other experts in raising concerns about using artificial intelligence to carry out financial fraud, Yahoo Finance reported. Talcove said the use of AI in financial fraud activities is what finance experts call “crime 3.0,” citing the technology’s ability to evade detection. “The […] More

  • in Artificial Intelligence, News

    DOE Opens Partnership Opportunity for Tech Development to Flag AI-Generated Text

    The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is seeking industry partners to develop and commercialize its new system that uses public key cryptography to detect artificial intelligence-generated text. According to a notice on SAM.gov, LLNL’s new invention can be used to validate human-generated content by producing an anonymized digital signature attached to the text […] More

  • in News

    DARPA Aims to Develop Novel Tunable Optical Materials for Fast-Switching Applications

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled a new program to develop novel tunable optical materials operating across multiple spectral ranges in the visible and mid and long-wave infrared electromagnetic spectrum bands. DARPA said Wednesday the Accelerating Discovery of Tunable Optical Materials program seeks to use advancements in artificial intelligence to discover and develop […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    DOE Extends Constellis Business’ Savannah River Site Support Services Under $1B Contract; Terry Ryan Quoted

    A Constellis business will continue maintaining security and safety at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina under a potential 10-year, $1 billion contract. Centerra will manage safeguards and security measures for aviation operations, information security, law enforcement, material transportation security and coordination, protective force, physical protection and program management functions at […] More

  • in Artificial Intelligence, News

    Microsoft Offers Azure OpenAI Service for Government Agencies

    Microsoft Azure Government users can now access generative artificial intelligence capabilities designed to support a range of use cases, from enhancing productivity to generating data-driven insights to meet mission needs. The Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service uses a new architecture that provides government agencies with secure access to large language models in Azure Government’s commercial environment, […] More

  • in News

    NPS Foundation Recognizes AT&T With 2023 Corporate Partner of the Year Award; Lance Spencer Quoted

    AT&T received the 2023 Corporate Partner of the Year recognition for supporting the Naval Postgraduate School’s education, research and applied technology requirements. The award comes three years after NPS entered into an agreement with AT&T to research and develop 5G at Sea and edge computing-based maritime platforms to support defense, national security, shipping and other […] More

  • in Artificial Intelligence, News

    CACI, Raytheon BBN Among Contractors Selected for DARPA’s AI Algorithm Development Framework Program

    CACI International and a Raytheon Technologies subsidiary are two industry participants in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks algorithmic tools capable of performing decision-making tasks in a challenging scenario such as combat triage. DARPA said Tuesday four teams will support the development of a framework for building trustworthy artificial intelligence algorithms under […] More

  • in News, Space

    Terran Orbital-Built Spacecraft Navigates Cislunar Orbit

    A moon-orbiting spacecraft Terran Orbital built for NASA has completed its primary mission to navigate the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit and has captured images of the moon. The company said CAPSTONE performed initial demonstration tests of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System, an autonomous navigation software platform that helps the vehicle to determine its location without […] More

  • in C4ISR, News

    Northrop-Built C2 System Deployed by US Allies in Baltic Region; Rebecca Torzone Quoted

    Northrop Grumman has trained military personnel in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia to use a company-built system for managing counter-small unmanned aerial platform operations. The Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control system aligns the three Baltic states’ collective short-range air defense and C-sUAS capabilities with the U.S. European Command’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Plan, […] More