The FAA has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology [GD] a $99 million contract to help modernize the national airspace system (NAS) through work on its data, visualization, analysis and reporting system (DVARS). The FAA’s requirements define DVARS as needing to provide “ ...

Customs and Border Protection late last fall began testing and is now operating new fixed sensor towers in two new locations along the southwest border in Arizona, bringing the number of border miles covered by the Integrated Fixed Tower (IFT) system to around 200. The installations were completed ...

Customs and Border Protection says the use of facial recognition technology at an entry processing station at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York identified an impostor attempting to use a U.S. passport to enter the country on a flight from Mexico City. CBP says the technology, ...

Republican lawmakers who voted Thursday for a bill to fund the remaining fiscal year 2019 appropriations bills said they wish to learn exactly how President Trump plans to declare a national emergency to find additional funds for the border wall before making a judgment. The Senate passed H.J. Res. ...

MQ-25 & T-X. Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer on Friday said after a recent trip to Boeing’s facility working on the new Air Force T-X trainer, he thinks the MQ-25 unmanned carrier tanker will get some benefits from the Air Force development. “Hipping off of a trip that I know I took ...

U.S. Special Operations Command wants to make the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AC-130J gunship “more crew friendly” and to reduce crew size through artificial intelligence and machine learning, James Smith, the acquisition executive for SOCOM, told the 30th Annual Special Operations ...