A consortium launched in March to advance research into the novel coronavirus using supercomputers has approved 78 COVID-19 research proposals and has been running 68 projects as of July 1, Nextgov reported Wednesday.

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Textron’s Bell subsidiary has partnered with nine other companies to manufacture a helicopter prototype in pursuit of the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program.

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Ball Aerospace has handed over to the University of Arizona a low-heat leak tank designed to support a NASA balloon mission throughout its entire flight.

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A guided missile interceptor developed by Raytheon’s missile systems business and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as well as supported by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has been approved by the Department of Defense to undergo initial production efforts.

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Executive Mosaic, the leading executive media and events company in the government contracting “GovCon” industry, announced the 2020 winners of the highly coveted and prestigious Wash100 Award. The full list of winners and more information about the award can be found on Wash100.com. 

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Accenture has partnered with representatives from the financial sector to launch the Digital Dollar Foundation focused on analyzing the feasibility of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency.

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Northrop Grumman has handed over the 500th unit of a fire control radar system for the F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft.

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A team consisting of Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary is slated to conduct ground-based propulsion testing for its SB-1 Defiant compound helicopter after the aircraft completed its first three flights, Rotor and Wing reported Friday.

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Alongside Capital One, the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO) announced the 50 fastest growing companies owned and led by women across a wide variety of industries in the Charlotte, N.C. area during the 12th annual awards ceremony on May 2nd. More

Boeing has unveiled an unmanned aerial system that uses artificial intelligence to support “smart teaming” with existing manned military aircraft. The company said Wednesday the new Boeing Airpower Teaming System is designed to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations and electronic warfare missions.

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Airbus’ defense and space business has launched at the Farnborough Airshow an unmanned aerial vehicle designed to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Airbus said Monday it also opened the first production facility for the Zephyr S High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite UAV and named it after Zephyr inventor Chris Kelleher. Sophie Thomas, head of the Zephyr […] More

QTS Realty Trust and Relus Cloud have partnered to provide Amazon Web Services migration support to customers that aim to implement a hybrid colocation strategy for information technology operations. The partnership seeks to help clients migrate to the cloud through a managed service meant to simplify the process for managing workloads in the AWS environment, […] More