Noblis has received a patent for a technology designed to collectively optimize autonomous machines performing cooperative actions together. The nonprofit said Tuesday its Noblis Orchestrated Autonomy technology allows autonomous machines to plan
Pam Coleman, associate director of performance and personnel management at the Office of Management and Budget, said the government’s first pulse survey gathered workforce-related input from about two million civilian respondents across
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The Department of Commerce (DOC) has produced a report about how its agencies ran technology transfer activities in fiscal year 2020, including projects related to space weather and air quality. The “Annual
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who was a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, has declared the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) as a Center for Industrial Technical Excellence (CITE), highlighting DMEA’s role as a core
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Emily Blanchard, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, has been appointed to serve as the State Department’s chief economist. Blanchard will help the department analyze the economic factors of foreign policy and
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Rae Ann Meyer, formerly the deputy manager of Marshall Space Flight Center’s Science and Technology Office, has been named the center’s associate director. Meyer will oversee day-to-day business operations, decision making and
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The Department of Energy has issued $35 million in funding awards to 158 small business-led projects that will focus on developing technologies designed to promote clean energy and limit climate change impacts.
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U.S. Cyber Command will run a virtual event to present the 84 newest member institutions of its Academic Engagement Network, an effort to fortify a workforce of cyber professionals. The event, which
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The Cyberspace Solarium Commission, which stood up in 2019, will soon shut down but then revive as a nonprofit this year, Defense One reported Wednesday. Mark Montgomery, the commission’s executive director, told
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The Department of the Navy has extended the response deadline of a request for information notice on counter-unmanned aircraft system products that can boost the Marine Air Defense Integrated System‘s lethality. Parties
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James Hursch, a member of the Senior Executive Service who has worked on foreign military financing efforts, has rejoined the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to serve as director. Hursch worked on the
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