BEN HILBURN DEEPSIG, INC. & MANUEL UHM ETTUS RESEARCH/NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS (NI)

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling significant leaps in science and technology, including the fields of digital signal processing (DSP) and radio frequency (RF) systems. Methods nominally labeled as "AI" have been applied to radio systems for decades, but...

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Lockheed Martin's AlphaPilot Innovation Challenge has officially launched through the HeroX platform and is accepting applications in the U.S. and around the world, officials announce. Deadline for entires is February 28, 2019.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency selected Raytheon for two Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contracts to develop advanced data automation, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The contracts have a potential combined total value of up to $600 million.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) have developed for the first time an analytic model to show how groups of people influence individual behavior.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has launched the Machine Common Sense (MCS) program to explore recent advances in cognitive understanding, natural language processing, deep learning...

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded DECISIVE ANALYTICS Corp. (DAC) a contract to implement semantic machine learning algorithms for the Advanced Geospatial Analytics program.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Training-services company Zen Technologies USA (Washington, D.C.) will partner with Paladin AI (Montreal, Canada) to develop technology that brings adaptive training to combat training systems.

MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are launching a new program called Photonics in the Package for Extreme Scalability (PIPES), which aims to enable future system scalability by developing high-bandwidth optical signaling technologies for digital microelectronics.

SKYSCALE

Modern genomics is characterized by rapid production of vast amounts of raw sequencing data (sequencing reads) using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and the equally massive computing requirements for conversion of that data into useful results.