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    Industry's help needed in artificial intelligence (AI), cyber warfare, and information security
    Computers

    Wanted: new enabling technologies in artificial intelligence (AI), cyber warfare, and information security

    John Keller
    Dec. 11, 2024
    Project seeks capabilities in information and computer technologies able to surprise adversaries and maintain advantages for national security.
    The Mercury HDVR avionics high-definition video recorder is for high-speed data and video recording of flight incidents and mission data.
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    Electronic warfare (EW) and spectrum warfare are the focus of upcoming industry briefings by the Air Force
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    DARPA SAFE-SiM should enable faster-than real-time simulation and modeling for military CONOPS
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    Cockpit of Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet
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    Air Force researchers are focusing on technologies that support hardware and software for high-assurance, trusted, and secure computers.

    Defense Executive

    The Analog Devices ADXRS645 is a high performance angular rate sensor with vibration immunity for use in high temperature environments, with acceleration and vibration rejection.
    A Navy EA-18G Growler aircraft flies over the Pacific Ocean during Exercise Valiant Shield 22 in June 2022.
    The RTX Raytheon Next-Generation Jammer Mid-Band airborne electronic warfare system operates at advanced ranges and can jam separate targets simultaneously.
    A Tomahawk Black IV cruise missile launches from the fast-attack submarine, USS Pasadena (SSN-752)
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    Air Force Extreme Computing program focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for C4ISR
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    Landsat uses large dish antennas to receive imaging data from orbiting satellites
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    The ocean comes alive with vivid greens and yellows as phytoplankton blooms, offering a source of alternative energy.
    Power

    DARPA asks University of Maryland for energy harvesting for electric power to drive remote ocean sensors

    John Keller
    Dec. 2, 2024
    University will choose input materials like dissolved organic matter, phytoplankton, and zooplankton to help convert these to electrical power.
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    The DARPA COOP program seeks to guarantee that software runs correctly
    Trusted Computing

    Peraton Labs, Vanderbilt, and Galois to ensure trusted computing software for safety-critical applications

    John Keller
    Dec. 2, 2024
    COOP seeks to develop secure design and development tools to guarantee that software is running correctly by ensuring device physics is correct.
    A common hypersonic glide body launches in 2022 in its first test for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army, which will field the common hypersonic missile.
    Computers

    DTS to build common hypersonic glide bodies for U.S. hypersonic strike weapons in $670.5 million contract

    John Keller
    Nov. 27, 2024
    DTS is working with Lockheed Martin Corp. to support integration and prototyping of the new common hypersonic glide body.
    The ESSM Block 2 radar-guided missile is for shipboard air defense
    Sensors

    Navy asks RTX Raytheon for ESSM Block 2 radar-guided shipboard air-defense missile booster sections

    John Keller
    Nov. 27, 2024
    ESSM shipboard air-defense munition is a medium-range, semi-active homing missile that makes flight corrections via radar and midcourse data uplinks.
    An F-35B Lightning II aircraft launches from amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli (LHA 7) during a 2022 exercise.
    Sensors

    Lockheed Martin prepares to build batch of F-35 combat jets, avionics, and sensors in $869.9 million deal

    John Keller
    Nov. 26, 2024
    The aircraft has a 25-millimeter Gatling gun and can carry advanced air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, smart bombs, and conventional bombs.