JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Welcome to our September Resource Guide, which for the sixth straight year is at least 100 pages - a rare feat in print publishing today. So thank you, loyal readers and advertisers for all your loyalty and support. 

MOHAMED BERGACH, KONTRON

Leveraging advanced data center computing techniques holds the promise of delivering powerful ways to solve complex defense mission challenges. Deep learning is an increasingly popular technique that can be used to process very large data sets. 

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Commercial computer technology continues to influence military mobile computing requirements as warfighters demand that their field equipment have the same functionality and capability as their personal devices. 

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Lockheed Martin and Drone Racing League (DRL) announced an innovation competition at Tech Crunch 2018, challenging teams to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology that will pit an autonomous drone in a race against a pilot-operated drone and win.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Raytheon BBN Technologies is developing a neural network that explains itself for the Defense Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Explainable Artificial Intelligence program (XAI).

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Sensor-technology company FLIR Systems has made a strategic investment and will partner with CVEDIA, Singapore-based developers of machine-learning applications used to equip sensor systems with artificial intelligence (AI).

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) entered into an Education Partnership Agreement (EPA) to encourage and strengthen studies in the scientific disciplines.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded a contract worth $14.5 million from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to develop a system that improves the accuracy of predicting a range of geopolitical events, including elections, conflict, and disease outbreak.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

HRL Laboratories and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) are teaming to develop what could be a breakthrough in machine-learning architecture for autonomous systems.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

SparkCognition and Boeing officials announced they will be collaborating to deliver unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM) solutions.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at the Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) selected Booz Allen Hamilton to provide an Enterprise Machine Learning Analytics and Persistent Services (eMAPS) solution that will enable...