Rocket Lab USA has unveiled a suborbital testbed launch vehicle it developed based on its flagship Electron reusable small rocket. The Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron, or HASTE, is scheduled for an inaugural flight from a launch site at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in the first half of this year, the company said […] More

In early 2022, the Department of Defense released its new technology vision, which identified 14 technology areas critical to maintaining U.S. national security in the transforming warfighting environment. Quantum, which represents just one of these areas, has reached its “second revolution,” as experts move to perfect this technology and harness its benefits. To accelerate the development […] More

Second Front Systems, a provider of software-as-a-service offerings to the federal government, has joined an Amazon Web Services program that seeks to assist global service providers looking to address the public sector’s compliance authorization requirements. Under the AWS Global Security and Compliance Acceleration program, Second Front Systems will provide access to its Game Warden platform […] More

Amazon Web Services is working to help health care organizations address workforce challenges through an accelerator program, Modern Healthcare reported Tuesday. AWS announced at a conference the selection of 23 startups for the program, which seeks to help business leaders improve their business model, cloud architecture and regulatory pathways over a five-week period. The company […] More

Fairbanks Morse Defense has introduced a program to help businesses and entrepreneurs further develop their emerging technologies with potential maritime defense applications. Selected participants for the FM Defense Accelerator program will work with the defense contractor’s mentors from the Technology Center of Excellence and gain access to technical experts, a global service network and other […] More

Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business, said the company launched a new unit, dubbed Ignite, to promote innovation and facilitate the maturation of technologies to accelerate the delivery of on-orbit capabilities to government agency customers, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. “What we’ve heard from the traditional customers is: ‘we need better technical […] More

Axellio will feature its company-developed defense and intelligence network platform technology as part of the new group that Catalyst Accelerator formed to support the defensive cyber operations of the U.S. Space Force. The company said Thursday it will collaborate with various stakeholders and demonstrate its technologies to investors, government and industry partners as a Defensive Cyber […] More

Federal agencies now have until June 20, 2024, to move paper-based records to an electronic environment as mandated by an Office of Management and Budget memorandum released in 2019. OMB Memo M-19-21 initially set a December 31, 2022 deadline for transitioning to electronic records and Paperless Innovations underscored the need to hasten digital recordkeeping implementation […] More

The Catalyst Accelerator has finalized its selection of eight small businesses that will join its new cohort to support defensive cyber operations for the U.S. Space Force. The companies are expected to present their disruptive technologies to investors as well as government and industry experts on June 1, the accelerator said Friday. USSF is looking […] More

Amazon Web Services has secured High authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based managed services offering. AWS Managed Services Accelerate is available to government clients in the GovCloud U.S. East and West regions and is designed to enable users to manage workloads at the FedRAMP High level, Amazon’s cloud computing […] More

A three-month startup accelerator program will be launched by Catalyst Accelerator in an effort to boost the efficiency of the U.S. Air Force’s digital model processing. Catalyst Accelerator’s operations in Ogden, Utah, is inviting applications from small businesses that can present technologies capable of streamlining the service branch’s Unified Certification Strategy, the accelerator said Tuesday. […] More

The Catalyst Accelerator looks to help the U.S. Space Force boost defensive cyber operations through commercial capabilities, and plans to launch its 11th cohort focused on identifying and automating cyber terrain mapping of complex platforms. The organization said topics of interest for the CADCO Accelerator are complex cyber network mapping, sensor placement optimization, network mission […] More