Army MAPS protest saga takes new twists
One protest dismissed, one refiled, and proposals are now due June 22. The protest issues swirling around the Army’s $50 billion MAPS vehicle have added a few new twists and turns. We reported earlier this week that the TechSur-Guidehouse Joint Venture had withdrawn its protest. This week, it refiled. Meanwhile, ICF International saw its protest dismissed […]
Commerce commits to funding incentives with 9 companies to spur quantum development
The letters of intent provide over $2 billion in funding from the CHIPS and Science Act to spur research and development in fault-tolerant quantum computing. The Commerce Department signed letters of intent with nine quantum computing and quantum foundry companies to provide funding from the CHIPS and Science Act to support innovation in quantum computing. Announced […]
SpaceX’s governance structure is built for one person: Elon Musk
ANALYSIS: The S-1 filing reveals a company where accountability flows up, not down. Elon Musk has a well-earned reputation for doing things his way, and the S-1 filing for taking SpaceX public reinforces that reputation. Unlike other large publicly traded companies, SpaceX eschews many of the safeguards used to hold corporations and their management accountable. First, […]
Navy turns to autonomous vessels to map the ocean floor
The Naval Oceanographic Office wants contractor-owned, operated USVs to fill data collection gaps. The Navy needs better maps of the ocean floor, but it doesn’t have the ships to capture the data. To solve that problem, the service wants to hire contractor-owned, contractor-operated vessels that can autonomously sail and collect bathymetric (200 meters to the ocean […]
A Ukrainian ground robot defended a position from Russian assault for six weeks
UGVs are beginning to replace infantry on Ukraine’s front lines. A single remote-controlled Ukrainian ground combat vehicle defended a “key intersection under constant adversary attack” for 45 days last summer, according to a 3rd Army Corps spokesperson who called it “Ukraine’s first fully robotic defensive operation of a position.” It likely won’t be the last. The […]
