By Garrett Reim2021-07-27T19:58:00+01:00
Heron Systems, the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) software that beat a US Air Force (USAF) F-16 pilot 5-0 in the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) AlphaDogfight trials last year, has been acquired by Shield AI.
Shield AI is a venture-backed startup located in San Diego, California. The company say it is “applying self-driving car technologies to military aircraft”. The firm is developing software to control swarms of autonomous unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned submarines. It is also developing a small autonomous quadcopter that would be air-dropped by a small fixed-wing UAV over a battlefield.
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Perspecta to develop cyber tools and solutions for MARFORCYBER 06 May 2021 (Last Updated May 6th, 2021 12:49)
Perspecta has secured a single award task order to develop cyber tools and solutions for the US Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command (MARFORCYBER).
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MARFORCYBER is a functional formation of the USMC to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattack. Credit: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.
The two-year contract has been awarded by the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific.
It represents new work for the company and has a cumulative value of $17.9m.
MARFORCYBER is a functional formation of the US Marine Corps (USMC) to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattack.