Colin Demarest
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Arlington, VA, United States
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US Army taps RTX for $117 million infrared sensor deal
The new contract is the culmination of "many years of research and development on what is an extremely complex" topic, an Army official said. → Read More
Autonomous drones may help Air Force slash aircraft inspection times
"A preflight inspection right now can take up to four hours," a Near Earth Autonomy official told reporters. "We can do it in 30 minutes." → Read More
Lockheed bests General Dynamics for Army long-range jammer contract
Under the new arrangement, Lockheed will build a prototype of the Terrestrial Layer System-Echelons Above Brigade at its facility in Syracuse, New York. → Read More
Garciga expected to be next US Army chief information officer
Leonel Garciga currently serves as the director for information management within the Army’s G-2 intelligence directorate. → Read More
Six questions for Mark Kitz as he swaps Army program executive offices
In an interview, outgoing PEO IEW&S boss Mark Kitz reflected on Army electronic warfare and provided an update on an AI pipeline known as Project Linchpin. → Read More
Kitz to succeed Potts at US Army battlefield communications office
While Mark Kitz is leaving PEO IEW&S for PEO C3T, he's staying put at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. → Read More
Randomly received a smartwatch? Don’t turn it on, investigators warn.
The Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division warned the devices may contain malware that could jeopardize personal info, passwords and more. → Read More
RTX wins $118 million Army order for drone target sensors
The latest edition, known as CSP v3, will feature “several enhancements over the previous version,” according to a PEO IEW&S official. → Read More
Raytheon injecting Collins Aerospace unit with $2.7 billion JADC2 jolt
Raytheon in September was named to the U.S. Air Force’s ABMS Digital Infrastructure Consortium alongside four other defense industry heavyweights. → Read More
Intel from NRO, NGA included in Trump’s alleged misuse of defense docs
The documents Trump is accused of mishandling contained details concerning nuclear weapons, military capabilities and activities in foreign countries. → Read More
Epirus, DroneShield combine on UAS-roasting air defense
Epirus earlier this year won a $66 million contract with the U.S. Army. → Read More
Meet Amelia, the US Navy’s conversational AI tech-support tool
Should AI-powered Amelia not be able to answer a question or fix a problem, it's capable of forwarding the matter to a live agent. → Read More
US cyber experts sent to Latin America on ‘hunt-forward’ mission
“We had our first defend-forward mission, a hunt-forward mission, in SOUTHCOM just recently, which is amazing.” → Read More
Senators plan briefings on AI to learn more about risks
Public attention paid to AI and its offshoots skyrocketed following the November rollout of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. → Read More
Q&A: Maxar execs discuss US Army simulation, Project Maven
C4ISRNET reporters interviewed a pair of Maxar Technologies leaders on the sidelines of the GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis. → Read More
Air Force official’s musings on rogue drone targeting humans go viral
A "thought experiment" from the service that went viral highlights the possible dangers that could come from giving autonomous drones too much power. → Read More
Multiple companies could win work on US Army’s Project Linchpin AI
Through Project Linchpin, the service intends to deliver artificial intelligence capabilities across the intel, cyber and electronic warfare worlds. → Read More
US Army may ask defense industry to disclose AI algorithms
"It's not to get at vendor IP," Young Bang said. "It's really about, how do we manage the cyber risks and the vulnerabilities?" → Read More
Swarms of AI-fueled drones, vehicles track targets in AUKUS tests
More than 70 military personnel and contractors participated in the experiment, part of the AUKUS Advanced Capabilities Pillar, or Pillar 2. → Read More
US Army receives mixed signals from industry on ‘radio as a service’
The Army has hundreds of thousands of radios — too many to quickly and cost-effectively modernize given security deadlines and international competition. → Read More