SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – August 27, 2025 – Quantum infrastructure software company Q-CTRL today announced it has won two awards under DARPA’s Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) program valued at A$38M (US$24.4M) to augment Q-CTRL’s quantum sensing technologies for use cases in military vehicles. Q-CTRL will develop quantum sensors for navigation of airborne, maritime, and ground-based quantum navigation augmented by […]
National Labs, DOE and DOD Research Organizations Finalists for R&D 100 Awards
August 14, 2025 by
More than a dozen national laboratories and research organizations of the Department of Energy and Department of Defense are among the 158 finalists for R&D World Magazine’s annual R&D 100 Awards. More details can be found here. Finalists include: Sandia National Laboratories NASA National Atomic Research Institute Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory […]
OpenAI Wins $200M Contract Targeting Defense Department Efficiency
June 17, 2025 by
OpenAI announced it has won a $200 million, one-year pilot project contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to help DOD “identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data, to supporting […]
OpenAI Wins $200M Contract Targeting Defense Department Efficiency
June 17, 2025 by
OpenAI announced it has won a $200 million, one-year pilot project contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to help DOD “identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data, to supporting […]
Parallel Works Unveils ACTIVATE Security Platform, Achieves DoD IL5 Provisional Authorization
April 29, 2025 by
CHICAGO – April 29, 2025 – Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for hybrid multi-cloud computing resources, today announced the launch of ACTIVATE High Security Platform, a hybrid, multi-cloud platform for national security workloads. Simultaneously, Parallel Works announced that the platform has achieved Impact Level 5 (IL5) Provisional Authorization (PA) at the Department of Defense […]
IonQ Awarded $5.7M for DOD Quantum System Design
August 6, 2024 by
COLLEGE PARK, MD – AUG. 6, 2024 – IonQ announced today it has won a contract through a competitive solicitation with the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) to design a first-of-its-kind, networked quantum computing system for the Department of Defense (DOD). The first phase of the project – awarded at $5.7 million […]
Rescale Receives Success Memorandum from Defense Innovation Unit for HPC Modernization Program
July 2, 2024 by
San Francisco – June 27, 2024 – Cloud HPC company Rescale announced the successful completion of an HPC Modernization Program prototype evaluation for the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). As a result, DIU has issued Rescale a Success Memorandum, making it possible for DoD organizations seeking compute power for mission needs to contract with Rescale […]
DOD to Leverage Intel Foundry’s Advanced Process Technology
April 22, 2024 by
DOD has awarded Phase Three of its Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes – Commercial program to Intel Foundry. This means RAMP-C customers can manufacture prototypes on Intel 18A, the company’s most advanced process technology. Although Intel and DOD did not disclose the dollar….
Startup Partners with Princeton on DARPA In-Memory AI Chip
March 6, 2024 by
An AI startup co-founded by a Princeton University professor has won an $18.6 million DOD grant to develop an in-memory chip built to deliver faster, more efficient AI inference processing. AI technology company EnCharge AI has announced a partnership with Princeton University supported….
DOD Announces $238M CHIPS and Science Act Awards for Microelectronics Hubs
September 20, 2023 by
The U.S. Department of Defense today announced the award of $238 million in CHIPS and Science Act funding for eight Microelectronics Commons regional innovation hubs. This is the largest award to date under the act, which was passed in August 2022 and provides roughly $280 billion for research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States.
