LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) used a company-owned Avenger MQ-20A unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to fly a military aircraft using an artificial intelligence (AI) pilot and an open architecture-based sensor system.

RAY ALDERMAN, VITA TECHNOLOGIES

If you have been a fervent reader of these Kill Web articles, you know that the Army has been connecting their sensors and weapons together into a tactical network under their IBCS initiative (Integrated Battle Command System).

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

The global missile defense system market will grow from $23.92 billion in 2022 to $31.32 billion in 2026, with increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) a big factor in the market over that period.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking proposals for its new Environment-driven Conceptual Learning (ECOLE) program, which intends to radically improve computational systems that analyze large amounts of multimedia by creating artificial intelligence (AI) agents capable of continually learning from linguistic and visual input.

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Palantir Technologies has won an $85.1 million contract to provide U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) with support for its prognostic and predictive maintenance and supply chain optimization efforts, the company announced in a statement.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched what it calls the Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction and Modeling (ASKEM) program, under which it chose multiple research teams -- sourced from universities and companies -- that will look into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches and tools to create, sustain, and enhance complex models and simulators for various use cases.

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

STEMBoard will manage U.S. nuclear stockpile data on behalf of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) nuclear enterprise under a new contract, the company announced in a statement.

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Global Spatial Technology Solutions has won a contract to provide advanced artificial intelligence-based services to predict and optimize the availability of military systems under Canada's Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program, the company announced in a statement.

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Artificial intelligence data infrastructure company Torch.AI won a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to provide software for a new cyber and insider threat analysis capability called the System for Insider Threat Hindrance (SITH), the company announced in a statement.

DAN TAYLOR, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

GHGSat has won a contract to provide commercial small constellation satellite products to NASA for evaluation of their suitability for advancing the agency's science and application goals, NASA announced in a statement.

RAMBUS

Overlooking thermal design in today’s truck-mounted advanced driver assistance systems can cripple performance, cause critical safety problems, and expose vehicle operators and vendors to liability. Technical leads for autonomous trucks should carefully review ADAS vendors’ thermal design to ensure it meets their performance, durability, and safety requirements.

ANALOG DEVICES

This article details performance measurements vs. predictions of a 16-chan- nel S-band direct sampling receiver design. The design is based on recently released direct sampling analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) clocked at 4 GSPS and sampling in the second Nyquist zone of the converter.