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Share this article Share this article DENVER and WASHINGTON, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Valid Eval, a provider of secure SaaS platform solutions that help manage complex group evaluations with transparency, efficiency and accountability, announced today it was awarded the SBIR Phase III contract through the General Services Agency (GSA) to implement large-scale evaluation services for the Department of Defense (DoD) Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology [A...

Operator Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the VMware Q1 FY 2022 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] After the speakers presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Mr. Paul Ziots, Vice President of Investor Relations. Thank you. Please go ahead. Paul Ziots -- Vice President of Investor Relations Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to VMwares first quarter fiscal yea...

Russia’s T-14 Armata Tank: The U.S. Militarys Worst Nightmare? A hotcars.com report makes a number of comparative claims without addressing, incorporating or even discussing the available details about Abrams modernization. There is a lot of information available about the various technologies and attributes built into Russia’s T-14 Armata tank regarding key features such as weight, speed, fuel efficiency, power, active protection and weaponry.  A report from hotcars.com says the T-14 has...

Brig. Gen. Eric Little took over as commander of White Sands Missile Range Thursday morning, May 20, 2021 morning during a Change of Command Ceremony at the installation.

by Tyler Durden Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 10:20 PM Dozens of autonomous war machines capable of deadly force conducted a field training exercise south of Seattle last August. The exercise involved no human operators but strictly robots powered with artificial intelligence, seeking mock enemy combatants.  The exercise, organized by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a blue-sky research division of the Pentagon, armed the robots with radio transmitters designed to simulate a weapon fi...

M1 Abrams: This Tank Is Old (But There Is Nothing Like It On the Planet) There are several key variables that likely continue to inform Army plans to preserve its heavy Abrams tank for decades into the future. Robots, Optionally-Manned Tanks, highly networked lightweight armored vehicles and armed reconnaissance ground drones are all capturing massive amounts of attention from Army futurists and weapons developers for understandable and appropriate reasons.   Yet meanwhile, an interesting and...

US Army aviation exercise unveils unprecedented progress as service preps for future war Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah — Aircrew in the back of a Black Hawk helicopter performing an air assault mission typically have limited information on the status and layout of a landing zone. But a two-weeklong exercise in the Utah desert gave those aboard three UH-60L helos unprecedented intelligence as they raced to their objective. The c...

Texas A&M University-Central Texas celebrated the graduation of 17 cadets in their ROTC program who officially received their promotions as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army in a ceremony at the university on Monday. Each of the new Army officers was promoted by loved ones before receiving the traditional “First Salute” by an enlisted military family member or friend. After receiving the salute, the new lieutenants presented a silver dollar to the person who gave them their first sa...

Red Cross Calls for Limits on Autonomous Weapons Experts said the group’s unique stature might get governments to the negotiating table at last. The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for new international rules on how governments use autonomous weapons, warning that such weapons will pose new challenges for international humanitarian law in the future and bring “significant risks of harm to civilians and combatants alike,” Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, sai...

I am Vanessa Guillén Act reintroduced: ‘We must save those who are saving our lives’ The bill would take cases of sexual assault outside the military chain of command over a year after Guillén, a Houston native, went missing from Fort Hood. Mayra Guillen, second from left, and Lupe Guillen, second from right, sisters of 20-year-old murder victim U.S. Army Private First Class Vanessa Guillen, speak outside on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 13, 2021, during an event to reintroduc...