Robert Lightfoot, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space as well as a two-time Wash100 Award winner, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about his strategic growth goals as EVP with the company as well as his insights into addressing the challenges of federal talent recruitment and the business side of innovation during the latest Executive Spotlight interview. “At Lockheed Martin […] More

Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Jim Brinker, president and general manager of Intel’s federal business arm, as an inductee into the 2022 edition of the Wash100 Award for supporting the company’s semiconductor-focused efforts and promoting collaborations with industry partners and government agencies. This marks the third consecutive Wash100 Award for Brinker. Visit Wash100.com to cast your votes […] More

Rocket Lab will construct a complex for the rapid production, assembly, integration and launch of its next-generation, 8-ton payload class reusable rocket in Wallops Island, Virginia. The launch service provider said Monday the 250,000-square-foot Neutron Production Complex will feature capabilities for manufacturing and refurbishing the Neutron rocket and managing its liftoff, landing and on-orbit operations. […] More

Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure global at Microsoft, said the company will work with several industry partners under the second phase of a Department of Defense-sponsored program that seeks to advance the development of secure microelectronics and semiconductors for defense and national security applications using commercial innovations. Keane wrote in a blog post […] More

ABL Space Systems plans to use the $200 million fresh capital it raised in a Series B financing round to scale the manufacturing of its R1 rocket and support research and development of future low-cost launch vehicles and systems. The El Segundo, California-based rocket builder said Monday its existing investor syndicate led and joined the […] More

A Xator subsidiary has received a $46.8 million contract to build a multimodal biometric system to support vetting procedures at State Department facilities worldwide. InCadence Strategic Solutions will help the department’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer implement the Ares biometric technology and the Diplomatic Security Identity Assurance System under the 10-year contract, Xator said […] More

Thomas Hutton, former CEO of Cadence Aerospace, has been appointed to fill the same role at Gamma Aerospace, a Mansfield, Texas-based manufacturer of airframe and flight components. He will be responsible for overseeing the company's aerospace leadership team and for driving its efforts to achieve growth and transformation, Gamma Aerospace said Wednesday.

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Microsoft has teamed up with 11 companies to develop a technology platform that could help ensure the security of microelectronics design and manufacturing using the Azure cloud service.

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Rocket Lab has announced that it will try to recover its Electron rocket’s first stage using a parachute system during its next mission that is slated for launch in mid-November. 

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NVIDIA has developed a synthetic environment that deploys virtual sensor data to help train driverless cars, C4ISRnet reported Saturday.

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Spaceflight has entered into an agreement with Hypergiant SEOPS to support the deployment of small customer satellites from a Northrop Grumman spacecraft docked at the International Space Station as part of a ridershare service.

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency requests for information on high cadence analytic and data services. NGA said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice it seeks input on technologies designed to plan collections across satellite constellations and perform analytics on large amounts of data to generate high cadence geospatial intelligence.

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