Intel, Chinese Organizations Parter to Explore Internet of Things

Intel is partnering with the Beijing Municipal Government and the Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences to establish a joint lab to explore the Internet of things, Intel announced Wednesday. 

Intel said the three organizations plan to invest $31.7 million for research and development over the next five years.

The organizations are launching the China Intel Internet of Things Joint Lab in…

State Dept Uses Social Media Crowd for Manhunt Exercise

The government is exploring the impact of social media in law enforcement situations, Federal News radio reports.

The State Department recently co-sponsored a mock event to see if the general public could locate and photograph a group of individuals scattered around five cities including Washington, New York, London, Stockholm and Brathislava, Slovakia.

TAG Challenge participants only had photos of fictional…

GE, MIT, DARPA to Research Military Vehicle Production Processes

General Electric is partnering with a leading technology college and the Defense Department’s research arm to research processes for designing and manufacturing military systems and vehicles.

GE and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will develop a crowd-driven ecosystem for evolutionary design platform through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s vehicleforge.mil program.

Qing Cao, principal investigator from GE’s global research unit, said…

L-3 Forms R&D Partnership With Two College Labs; Les Rose Comments

L-3 Communications is partnering with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland to conduct technology research and development projects.

Les Rose, president of the company’s Reston, Va.-based Stratis unit, said he hopes the alliances will enhance the company’s standing in the national security market.

Stratis said it plans to target research and development projects in the private and public…

ATK, NASA Test Deep Space Exploration Booster; Fred Brasfield Comments

ATK and NASA completed the first test of a space launch system booster for a new phase of space exploration, the company announced Tuesday. 

The aerospace and defense firm said it completed the flight control test 1 for the space agency’s space launch system booster program March 28 in Utah. 

Fred Brasfield, vice president for the company’s next-generation booster program, said NASA…

Northrop Laser Defense System Moves Up a Grade on Govt Measurement

Northrop Grumman Corp.’s laser defense system technology has reached the sixth level of a nine-level government measurement system, the company announced Monday. 

The All Semiconductor Airborne Laser Threat Terminator system went through a series of thermal, vibration, shock and field tests.

The system also had to meet a set of performance benchmarks.

Gordon Stewart, laser systems vice president and general manager,…

NASA Sells Software Patents for Commercializing Tech Development

NASA put three sections of its Goddard Space Flight Center software patents up for auction on March 29, Wired reports. 

The space agency put software development patents, autonomic computing and autonomic safety systems patents up for grabs at the ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction.

NASA sold the development patents for $75,000, according to Wired.

The sold group includes technologies for creating software,…

Northrop Delivers F-35 Fuselage to Lockheed From New Assembly Line Approach

Northrop Grumman Corp. has delivered the 70th F-35 center center fuselage to the fighter jet’s prime contractor Lockheed Martin, the company announced Monday.

This fuselage is the first produced using the integrated assembly line approach at the company’s Palmdale, Calif., site.

Michelle Scarpella, F-35 program vice president, said this approach is a new way of business for her company.

The Falls Church,…

Kratos Rockets Used for NASA Jet Stream Experiment

NASA has launched an Oriole rocket produced by Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc.’s rocket support services business unit.

The company NASA launched five rockets total from Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. as part of a high-altitude jet stream experiment.

Once launched, the rockets released chemical tracers which resembled while clouds in order to gather information about…

Pentagon Using Big Data to Uncover Cyberespionage

The government launched a big data research and development initiative Thursday.

The Defense Department, which among five agencies involved in the initiative launch, plans to pursue projects for autonomous systems.

The Pentagon will also allocate part of the $250 million investment for big data research toward developing methods to decode foreign secrets, NextGov reports. 

As part…