CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Raytheon BBN has developed a new capability to search text and speech from low-resource languages using English search terms. The tool was developed and demonstrated over four years under the IARPA Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language, or MATE…

The future USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28), the Navy’s 12th San Antonio class-amphibious transport dock ship, completed Acceptance trials, Jan. 31.

Acceptance trials consist of integrated testing to demonstrate the capability of the platform and installed systems across all mission areas to effectiv…

WASHINGTON — U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday met with his counterpart Chief of the French Navy Adm. Pierre Vandier at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 31.

The two leaders discussed mutual strengths, the importance of the NATO Alliance, and how to advance interoperabili…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Collins Aerospace has successfully demonstrated a ready-now Mission Systems solution to support the operations of Air Launched Effects (ALE) from Army Aviation’s Enduring and Future Vertical Lift (FVL) fleet.

Comprised of an air vehicle, multiple payloads, and a Mission Syst…

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — The 374th Airlift Wing supported Japan Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers assigned to the 1st Airborne Brigade in operation Airborne 22, Jan. 25–26.

Airborne 22 is the largest annual static-line personnel jump and cargo drop exercise between the U.S. Air Force and JGSDF…

The past years have seen an unprecedented rise in the volume of data streams that circle the globe. Terrestrial communications infrastructure is quickly expanding worldwide to meet the ever-growing demand. However, terrestrial fibre-based networks depend on intrinsically point-to-point implementatio…