Blockchain firm Constellation Network has secured a contract to help the U.S. Air Force provide interoperability capability between legacy systems and newer data technologies.

The SpaceX-built Dragon spacecraft has returned to Earth following a delivery mission at the International Space Station, Space.com reported Wednesday.

NICE's inContact business has added a workforce optimization system to a cloud-based contact center offering that is certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The FedRAMP-compliant CXone platform now includes tools for federal agencies to evaluate the performance of government call center representatives and manage customer experience on a single desktop, the software company said Tuesday.

Simba Chain has been selected to demonstrate a blockchain technology prototype under a U.S. Air Force project that aims to monitor the security of components produced with 3D printing methods. The service branch will apply the Simba Chain platform to USAF's Supply Chain Additive Manufacturing Parts initiative, the company said Monday.

Veteran-owned recruitment marketing firm Viqtory has included Constellis in its list of Military Friendly Employers for 2020.

The University of New Hampshire has selected Raytheon to build a space-based hyperspectral sensor technology that NASA will send into a geosynchronous orbit to monitor coastal waters.

Ario Technologies, an augmented reality technology company based in Norfolk, Va., has raised $2M in an NRV-led venture round in support of the former’s efforts to expand its AR portfolio to domestic and international markets.

Cradlepoint will provide its cloud platform to all 50 states under a five-year contract with the National Association of State Procurement Officials.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a presolicitation to seek concepts that utilize semantic technologies to validate fraudulent media assets.

AT&T has added two new cell sites in Virginia for the FirstNet public safety network’s expansion in the region.

IBM has donated a computer cluster valued at $11.6M to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help further the university’s artificial intelligence research work, MIT News reported Monday.

Textron's aviation business and General Dynamics' Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. subsidiary have received separate contracts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to manufacture airplanes for use in environmental data-gathering missions.