JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Much of the public thinks of artificial intelligence (AI) and summons images of machines hunting humans or monitoring their every move. Unfortunately, fear and paranoia often accompany tech revolutions - think heavier-than-air flight or commercial drones.

SALLY COLE, SENIOR EDITOR

Bringing artificial intelligence (AI) or "smarts" to the battlefield is already changing the way battles are fought; this technology will become increasingly critical in the future.

JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

In this podcast with Mike MacPherson, Vice President, Strategic Planning, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, he discusses the impact for the budget increase on the defense electronics industry and what applications -- radar, unmanned systems, electronic warfare, etc. This podcast is sponsored by the Avionics and Flight Ops show, the premier conference and exhibition for the international avionics and aviation electronics community. For information on attending the event, go to www.ae-expo.eu.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

DCS Corp. and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) teamed up to participate and win the Neurally Augmented Image Labeling Strategies (NAILS) challenge in Tokyo, an international machine learning research competition.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Brain Initiative (IEEE brain) in conjunction with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) are engaging with the scientific community with a newly developed web presence...

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

In partnership with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) officials launched the Fusion of Face Recognition Algorithms (FOFRA) prize challenge, which aims to improve recognition of face images through fusing the outputs of multiple algorithms applied to the same input imagery.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Cognitive-computing firm SparkCognition has signed a contract with DIUx [Defense Innovation Unit Experimental] to develop Stage 1 of what it calls "Project Quantum" to augment senior-level decisions quantitatively. DIUx is a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) organization focused on accelerating commercial technologies to the U.S. military.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials tapped Raytheon BBN Technologies - a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Co. - to explore artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to develop tools that may enable military planners to understand how cultural and other factors combine to cause conflicts. 

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) plans to deploy to the front lines new computer algorithms designed to extract objects of interest from massive amounts of moving or still imagery by the end of the year...

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The military market for artificial intelligence (AI) -- valued at $5.54 billion in 2016 -- is projected to reach $18.82 billion by 2025, according to a new study published by MarketsandMarkets... 

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Technology provider Polaris Alpha has won a $2.3 million subcontract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the agency seeks to develop new artificial intelligence (AI) tools for fast-changing battlefield environments.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Spaceflight Industries reports that its BlackSky division has garnered a two-year, $16.4 million cost-plus-prime contract with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to develop and deliver a cloud-based geospatial intelligence broker platform that will provide on-demand analytics, collection, and...

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded a prime contractor position on its 10-year Janus Geography contract to data management and security firm Altamira Technologies (McLean, Virginia).

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

KeyW Holding Corp. officials signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sotera Defense Solutions in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $235 million, inclusive of an expected $46 million net present value of acquired tax benefits.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officials selected SRI International to develop a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) system able to learn continuously and apply that learning to become better and more reliable at performing new tasks. 

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Lockheed Martin has announced a collaboration with data analytics firm SAS that aims to deliver next-generation analytics across Lockheed Martin's F-35, C-130J, and LM-100J military and civil aircraft programs.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

U.S. Navy officials extend a contract with Mikros Systems Corp. to continue to develop to Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) systems for the Navy's MK 99 Fire Control System (FCS). The follow-on contract is worth $2.5 million.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Engineers at BAE Systems will move to Phase 3 on the Adaptive Radar Countermeasures (ARC) project for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The contract modification brings the cumulative value of BAE Systems' ARC contract to $35.5 million.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has announced that it is collaborating with computing giant IBM on a novel brain-inspired supercomputing system powered by a 64-chip array of the IBM TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Aerospace and security company Lockheed Martin and IT/networking company NEC Corp. announced that Lockheed Martin will use NEC's System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT) in the space domain.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Oshkosh Defense, an Oshkosh Corporation, has won a $49 million contract from the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC) to integrate existing palletized load system (PLS) vehicles with scalable autonomous technology as part of the U.S. Army's Expedient Leader Follower (ExLF) program.

OSSI SAARELA, MATHWORKS

Space missions requiring higher levels of autonomy and greater precision in navigation are becoming increasingly prevalent, and vision-based sensing systems are acting as a technology enabler for these application types.