The Defense Department's advanced research arm is seeking industry input for a program designed to create systems that continually learn new information, much like living organisms, and apply these lessons to new situations.
C4ISR Watch
April 19, 2017 |
The Defense Business Board has launched a study examining how technology can help the workforce increase efficiency and reduce related costs. The board will meet Thursday to discuss the effort.
April 19, 2017 |
The Army is conducting a "bottom-up review" of the force to determine the appropriate composition and distribution of the intelligence corps, according to the service's deputy chief of staff (G-2).
April 17, 2017 |
The Pentagon's advanced research arm will hold a proposers' day this week for a program that seeks to help decision makers better understand complex social behaviors by developing testbeds for social science modeling methods.
April 11, 2017 |
Air Force Air Combat Command's airborne networking industry day to be held Wednesday will explore ways to incorporate cloud-based airborne networking into future families of systems, as well as to drive current networking efforts that exist between services, to join initiatives already underway in other services and create new ones altogether.
April 10, 2017 |
Radar warning receiver technology that was questioned in a recent Government Accountability Office report is expected to be mature enough to integrate into Sikorsky's HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter in 2018, the Air Force said last week.
April 07, 2017 |
Air Force officials report they are ahead of schedule in working through the service's war-planning software's remaining problems, after issuing a critical change report and editing the program's schedule baselines last fall.
April 06, 2017 |
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- Lockheed Martin and the Air Force completed shipment of the new Space Fence radar to Kwajalein Atoll in March and plan to begin installation at the radar site this month.
April 06, 2017 |
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- The recent name changes of two high-profile organizations working to align the space interests of the Defense Department and intelligence community are not merely cosmetic, but indicate their evolution from experimentation and tactics development hubs to centers supporting national-level space operations, according to a military official.
April 06, 2017 |
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO -- Air Force Space Command plans to partner with the service's Rapid Capabilities Office to more quickly field an Enterprise Space Battle Management Command and Control system.
April 06, 2017 |
The Pentagon's advanced research arm is seeking industry's input for a program designed to better interpret and analyze events in the face of "noisy, conflicting and potentially deceptive" data, according to a new notice.
April 05, 2017 |
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said Wednesday a continuing resolution that lasts until October would delay the service's $6.9 billion engineering and manufacturing development contract for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization, due in 2018, for at least five months.
April 04, 2017 |
The Pentagon needs to improve its data collection and storage efforts in an aim to ensure valuable information is preserved for the future, members of the Defense Innovation Board said today during a public meeting.
April 04, 2017 |
The Army on March 30 awarded Lockheed Martin a full-rate production contract for the Q-53 counterfire target acquisition radar system.
March 31, 2017 |
The Army's Common Infrared Countermeasure program -- an effort led by Northrup Grumman to outfit U.S. military helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft with a next-generation defense against infrared-guided missiles -- is a $2.6 billion endeavor to buy more than 1,000 missile warning and countermeasure systems, congressional auditors reveal in a new report.
Navy sending defective Growler to Boeing for evaluation after pilots report 'physiological episodes'
The Navy is in the process of sending a defective EA-18G Growler back to Boeing for evaluation because of "physiological episodes" being reported by pilots at a base in Washington state.
March 17, 2017 |
Inside the Navy
The U.S. military needs to invest heavily in automation and machine learning to protect its networks from adversaries relying on the same technologies, according to one of the Navy's top cyber commanders.
March 17, 2017 |
Rockwell Collins said this week it has received an agreement from the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, through which the company will provide "an open source aggregation framework to enable cross-platform data link communications on mobile devices for Windows and Android."
March 16, 2017 |
Inside the Air Force
A degraded B-52 radar could have implications for the performance of the Air-Launched Cruise Missile, the Air Force told Congress in a recent report explaining its reasons for pursuing a non-developmental replacement for the aging radar system.
March 16, 2017 |
Inside the Air Force
The Air Force may focus on improving intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability as the subject of its 2018 enterprise capabilities collaboration team study, according to the Air Force Research Laboratory's top planner.