The U.S. Agency for International Development has released the initial list of funding recipients under a $30 million competition that seeks to develop methods and tools for counter-Zika virus efforts. USAID said Tuesday it received almost 900 proposals worldwide for its Combating Zika and Future Threats: A Grand Challenge for Development and chose only 21 submissions across such categories as vector […] More

Orbital ATK has performed a hot-fire test on the updated first stage propulsion system of the Antares rocket with RD-181 main engines at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. NASA said Wednesday the test sought to assess the performance of the integrated first stage — including new engines, modified Stage 1 core, avionics, thrust vector control and pad fueling systems — in an operational environment. The Antares engineering […] More

Lockheed Martin will continue to develop a small unmanned aircraft system that works to adapt to various maritime operations under a $4.6 million contract. The company has begun to build a Vector Hawk drone with fixed-wing, collapsible-wing and tilt-rotor configurations, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. Jay McConville, Lockheed Martin director of business development for unmanned solutions, said Vector Hawk’s canister deployment and launch functions work […] More

Boeing has chosen aerospace engineering firm Dynetics to provide a thrust vector control exhaust gas heat exchanger and three structural simulators for the NASA Space Launch System program. Dynetics said Wednesday it will manufacture the flight hardware and simulation platforms for the SLS core stage at its Huntsville, Alabama facility, and then deliver the systems […] More

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new small unmanned aerial vehicle that the company built to be waterproof and to function with autonomous flight, landing and fail-safe features. “Vector Hawk” weighs four pounds, has a four-inch vertical profile and a software-defined radio that works to help carry out mobile mesh networking tasks, the company said Tuesday. “The Vector […] More

FireEye Inc. has launched a new subscription-based cyber defense offering for customers to identify threats and respond to attacks. The FireEye Managed Defense technology is designed to combine a continuous monitoring system, threat intelligence and context from the FireEye Security Platform, the company said Tuesday. Yanek Korff, vice president of FireEye Managed Defense, said the fresh […] More

FireEye has launched a new cybersecurity product that is built to help users detect threats to computer networks and respond to security incidents in a short period of time. The Endpoint Threat Prevention suite is designed for use with FireEye’s security platform and features IT tools that FireEye acquired through its $1 billion acquisition of Mandiant, […] More

Tony Cole serves as vice president and global government chief technology officer at FireEye, where he works with public sector agencies and other systems integrators to gain knowledge of the global cyber threat landscape and adapt enterprise approaches to address the threats. The former U.S. Army officer and Symantec business development leader addresses security conferences […] More