Frank Kendall, secretary of the U.S. Air Force and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, has requested the service’s Scientific Advisory Board to examine the potential military applications of generative artificial intelligence, such as
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Applied Signals Intelligence, CACI, DRS Advanced ISR, Resonant Sciences and Roke USA have been selected by the Department of the Navy and U.S. Special Operations Command for the Joint Threat Warning System Directional Finding/Omnidirectional Antenna project. Under
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The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted 34-24 to pass a fiscal year 2024 bill that would fund the agencies and programs within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. The FY
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A study supported by the National Science Foundation yielded a novel method to significantly reduce the energy needed to control the temperature of photonic chips, a critical component of supercomputers and data
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The Department of Defense overestimated the value of U.S. military equipment it handed over to Ukraine in support of the latter’s defense efforts against Russian invasion by about $6.2 billion, Axios reported
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has proposed a new framework that would establish guardrails to ensure safety when it comes to artificial intelligence innovation. Schumer said the proposed Safe Innovation Framework
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President Biden has appointed Eric Beightel, a two-decade environmental and transportation industry veteran, as executive director of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council. He will succeed outgoing executive director Christine Harada, who
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The U.S. and India have launched a strategic partnership to expand the countries’ collaboration to advance defense technology and manufacturing innovations. The India-U.S. Defense Acceleration Ecosystem aims to build connections between American
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The Department of Agriculture and NASA have signed a memorandum of understanding to continue their partnership on multiple initiatives. The two agencies’ collaborative projects include student outreach programs to promote careers in
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A new Deltek analysis shows that federal government spending on cloud-based big data technology platforms dropped from $789 million in fiscal year 2020 to $539 million in FY 2021 but rose by
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