Defense Executive

Computers

DARPA to boost additive manufacturing of critical structural parts by evaluating 3D printing at manufacture

April 17, 2024
SURGE seeks to rethink and accelerate distributed additive manufacturing of critical structural parts by developing ways to predict part life at build.
Computers

Charles River Analytics to develop machine-generated battle planning that works at the speed of computers

April 17, 2024
SCEPTER seeks analytics to produce machine-generated scenarios comparable to those of humans in planning real warfare as evaluated in simulation.
Computers

Military researchers to brief industry in May on ScAN artificial intelligence (AI) analog neural networks

April 16, 2024
ScAN will develop new analog neural network algorithms for inferencing accuracy; robustness; voltage and temperature variations; and scalability.
Uncrewed

Navy researchers pick General Dynamics to upgrade Black Pearl unmanned underwater vehicles with new payloads

April 16, 2024
The company also will build five uniquely modified Black Pearl-class UUVs, and provide UUV maintenance, at-sea operations support, and engineering.
Computers

Lockheed Martin to upgrade critical command and control system for U.S. ballistic missile defense system

April 15, 2024
The C2BMC key interface to the Ballistic Missile Defense System provides situational awareness of system status, coverage, and missile tracks.