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Booz Allen Hamilton has completed the acquisition of Liberty IT Solutions for $725 million in an effort to enhance the former’s ability to deliver end-to-end digital offerings and expand its digital transformation portfolio. Liberty will now operate as a Booz Allen company and integrate with its Civilian Services Group led by Executive Vice President Kristine […]

Amazon Web Services has selected 10 startup companies from the U.S. and Europe to study and develop space-based cloud technologies that have the potential to be applied to spacecraft launch and delivery, electronics and robotics, spacecraft hardware and software as well as earth observation efforts. The companies will receive up to $100,000 each in AWS […]

Phase Four, an El Segundo, California-based satellite propulsion startup, has secured a $26 million investment following the conclusion of a Series B funding round led by venture capital firm New Science Ventures. Beau Jarvis, CEO of Phase Four, said in a statement published Friday the new capital will be used to boost its production capability […]

Ingalls Shipbuilding, a Pascagoula, Mississippi-based division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, launched on Friday the future Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), which is the first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the U.S. Navy. HII said Friday DDG 125 will be equipped with Raytheon Technologies-built AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar arrays to provide the ship with ballistic […]

Dan Ives, a technology and media analyst at investment firm Wedbush Securities, said an increase in federal spending on cybersecurity platforms amid recent cyberattacks and a new executive order to strengthen the U.S. government’s cyber defenses could lead to an increase in mergers and acquisitions in the cybersecurity space, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. […]

General Electric‘s aviation business has announced the airworthiness qualification of the F110 engine sump cover that was additively manufactured as part of the pathfinder Pacer Edge program between the company and the U.S. Air Force. The F110 part’s Engineering Change Proposal approval from USAF marked the first time a 3D printed engine component was quaified […]

The U.S. Navy has received a Northrop Grumman-built electronic warfare system the military service will test at the Surface Combat Systems Center located on Virginia’s Wallops Island. Northrop said Friday its first AN/SLQ-32(V)7 Block 3 delivery under the branch’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program follows the completion of system integration and qualification testing efforts. The […]

London-based cybersecurity company Arqit has launched a consortium of public and private sector organizations from seven countries, including the U.S., in an effort to bring satellite-based quantum encryption technology to the worldwide government sector. The new alliance — which has representatives from the U.K., Canada, Japan, Austria, Belgium and Italy — centers on the Federated […]

The General Services Administration seeks market information on support services to continuously operate a tool that the agency uses to manage real estate leases. The GSA Real Estate Exchange or G-REX platform requires continued operation to secure and modernize environments for on-premise testing, integration and production activities, the agency said Thursday in a SAM.gov notice. […]

Researchers at the General Atomics-operated DIII-D magnetic fusion research facility conducted “Super-H Mode” high-performance regime experiments to evaluate approaches to regulating heat and particle flow at the fusion reaction edge, and results show a pathway for excess heat removal from future power plants. General Atomics, a national user facility for the Department of Energy’s Office […]