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    DMI Welcomes Gary Wang as CTO; Rocky Thurston Quoted

    Gary Wang has joined DMI as chief technology officer, a role in which he will guide the organization’s technology vision and strategy. His work as CTO will support the company’s efforts to innovate and help clients achieve their business and mission goals using DMI’s technology offerings, the Bethesda, Maryland-headquartered enterprise announced on Tuesday. “With years of experience […] More

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    Video Interview: DCSA Director William Lietzau Talks Trusted Workforce 2.0

    Today, the United States federal government is undergoing a massive effort to reform the personnel security process and create a single vetting system that can serve the entire public sector.  Work to advance that initiative, called Trusted Workforce 2.0, is underway at the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, and in a new video interview, DCSA Director William […] More

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    General Motors, Mitre Promote Use of Telemetry Data for Automotive Safety Research

    General Motors and Mitre have jointly released a paper on how vehicle telemetry data can be used to generate insights on advancing automotive safety. The paper focuses on enabling automakers, fleet operators, city planners, transportation safety researchers and other members of the global transportation sector to collect, process and analyze telemetry data to support automotive […] More

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    L3Harris Receives DOD Awards for Advancing Industry Security, Counterintelligence Capabilities

    L3Harris Technologies has received recognition from the Department of Defense for its commitment to maintaining industrial security excellence and strengthening U.S. counterintelligence capabilities. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency selected L3Harris’ Space & Airborne Systems facility as one of 19 recipients of the James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award, the company said Thursday. […] More

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    GA-ASI’s Mojave Drone Conducts 1st Take-Off, Landing on Dirt Surface

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems division demonstrated the short-takeoff and landing capabilities of its Mojave unmanned aircraft system during a series of flight tests on a dirt strip in California. Mojave conducted take-offs in as little as 586 feet and performed short landings on unimproved surfaces in as little as 335 feet, GA-ASI said Thursday. The […] More

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    Navy, Sofar Ocean Partner on Ocean Data Collection Tech Research

    San Francisco-based technology startup Sofar Ocean and the U.S. Navy’s Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command have identified three potential areas of collaboration to help the service branch expand data gathering and weather forecasting capabilities. Both parties formalized a five-year cooperative research and development agreement through which several Navy organizations will explore use cases for the […] More

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    ARPA-H Issues Solicitation for Scaling Health Applications Research for Everyone Program

    The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has released a broad agency announcement for a program that seeks to transform innovations from other domains into health care platforms that can be scaled to larger application areas. The Scaling Health Applications Research for Everyone program calls for interested stakeholders to demonstrate technical feasibility and develop a […] More

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    Lockheed Eyes Increased Production of SDA SmallSats With New Assembly Facility

    Lockheed Martin unveiled a 20,000-square-foot manufacturing site that will be used to assemble small satellite programs and technologies. The company announced Friday the facility at its Waterton, Colorado, will help expedite the delivery of Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites to the Space Development Agency. Lockheed is currently working to complete more than 50 Transport Layer […] More

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    Parry Labs Secures Army Awards for Aviation Mission Computing Environment Development

    The U.S. Army awarded Parry Labs two task orders to help implement a modular open systems approach to the service branch’s aviation hardware and software operating environments. The contracts are part of the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium MOSA agreement, the company said Thursday. The project involves deploying an Aviation Mission Computing Environment for future […] More

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    Caveonix’s Kaus Phaltankar on Steps Businesses Should Take to Comply With Data Privacy Laws

    Kaus Phaltankar, co-founder and CEO of Caveonix, said several U.S. states are implementing data privacy laws to protect sensitive information from being compromised and businesses need to take into consideration a number of measures to ensure compliance with such regulations. Companies looking to comply with data privacy laws should have a better understanding of the […] More

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    Army OKs Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle Program’s Transition to Full-Rate Production

    The U.S. Army has cleared the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle program’s entry into the full-rate production phase but has yet to award the FRP contract to BAE Systems, Defense News reported Friday. A spokesperson for the Army’s program executive office ground combat systems said the AMPVs are compliant with the required specifications and that issues detected […] More

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    12 Companies Advance to Phase II of NASA’s SBIR Ignite Program

    Twelve small businesses and startup companies were awarded Phase II grants under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Ignite program. The pilot initiative advanced all projects that received Phase I awards in 2022, which specialize in areas including climate resilience, solar energy, additive manufacturing and recycling, NASA said Friday. SBIR Ignite was created to attract companies […] More