SYRACUSE, N.Y. Defense research and development company SRC, Inc. won a $24 million contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop next-generation embedded artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities across ground, air, and space domains.

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Defense's Secure Communications business unit won a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to advance Halo, its multilink, multiband, multi-orbit hybrid satellite communications (SATCOM) antenna.

POWAY, Calif. General Atomics won a $99.3 million contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for work on what it calls a “hybrid-electric propulsion ducted fan next-generation intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance/strike unmanned aerial system,” which it calls GHOST. 

HOUSTON. Hughes Network Systems reports that it will collaborate with Eutelsat America Corp. and OneWeb Technologies Inc (EACOWT) -- operating in combination as a wholly owned independent U.S. proxy company and subsidiary of Eutelsat Group -- to develop an enterprise-grade OneWeb capable low-Earth orbit (LEO) modem transceiver circuit card assembly (CCA) intended to support EACOWT’s contract with L3Harris Technologies for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) Call 003 program.

DENVER, Colo. and ASHBURN, Va. Security and space services provider Voyager announced it will partner with space-based cloud services provider LEOcloud on a project to advance edge-computing technology in space with a focus on neuroprocessing technology.

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) reports that two teams have been chosen to compete in the 2024 AFRL Commander’s Challenge, which seeks solutions to the threats to troops posed by slow-moving, high-altitude, aerial adversaries.

SAN DIEGO. BAE Systems has been awarded a $48 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to further advance the Insight system, an advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) exploitation and resource-management system that uses machine learning (ML) and autonomy-based solutions to help analysts process massive volumes of complex data and quickly translate it into actionable intelligence.