A digital transformation team within Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has established an advanced visualization engineering facility in Palmdale, California, to provide a virtual environment for advancing engineering development. The Virtual Prototyping team's new Virtual Engineering Environment features computer-aided software and tools, including a large format PowerWall display system, to enable engineers to design, manufacture and test systems and processes virtually, Lockheed said Thursday.

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Auterion, the builder of software-defined computing platforms for drones and autonomous systems, has completed the transfer of its corporate headquarters from Moorpark in South California to Arlington, Virginia, a move that brings the company closer to private and public sector clients, particularly federal agencies and defense-related customers. In a press release Wednesday, Lorenz Meier, CEO of Auterion, said, "Being physically closer to our customers allows us to provide more responsive support and collaborate more effectively."

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Carahsoft Technology will serve as public sector distributor for cybersecurity research and advisory support provider TAG Infosphere under a new partnership between the two companies. Carahsoft said Wednesday that through its Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2, National Association of State Procurement Officials ValuePoint and OMNIA Partners contracts, and with the help of reseller […] More

HII and Amazon Web Services will expedite the development and delivery of next-generation sea power technologies, digital shipyard transformation projects, commercial space initiatives, warfighter training readiness and other mission-critical capabilities to defense and intelligence agency customers under a three-year strategic collaboration agreement. HII said Wednesday Todd Borkey, the company’s executive vice president and chief technology […] More

Kathryn Van Vleck, a business development executive with over 15 years of industry experience, has been named vice president of capture excellence at ASRC Federal, according to her LinkedIn profile. She joined the Reston, Virginia-headquartered information technology services company from V2X, where she served as an executive director for more than five years. Prior to […] More

Carahsoft Technology will distribute the security and compliance products of Australian software developer Prophecy International to its government clients under a partnership agreement. Prophecy’s Snare security data engine offerings are designed to bolster government systems against cyber attacks and help agencies meet audit requirements and security standards, Carahsoft said Tuesday. “Given the escalation of cyber threats and […] More

Leidos and Elroy Air have secured approval to demonstrate the latter’s Chaparral autonomous vertical take-off and landing aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle – Expeditionary Logistics program. The MARV-EL flight test activities will take place in July at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in Yuma, Arizona, to demonstrate the ability […] More

T-Rex Solutions has secured a five-year, $52 million prime contract from the Department of Education’s Office of the Chief Information Officer to support the Portfolio of Integrated Value-Oriented Technologies program, a project that aims to integrate and secure the department’s information technology services. The IT firm said Tuesday it will develop a crucial part of the […] More

Digital asset adoption continues to grow exponentially, and pending Treasury regulations will establish governance for how this asset class should be reported on for tax purposes. As the digital asset industry awaits final regulations, TaxBit is among the firms working at the intersection of industry and government to provide solutions to enterprises, exchanges and agencies […] More

Effective data categorization makes it possible to easily determine which information is essential to a given operation or decision, making the process “pivotal” to federal agencies undergoing transformation driven by an evolving technological landscape, according to Pragyansmita Nayak, chief data scientist at Hitachi Vantara Federal. Effective categorization also brings the added benefits of improving stakeholder […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel have delivered the Aurora exascale supercomputer to the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, providing researchers access to an artificial intelligence-capable system with a computing capacity of one quintillion operations per second. Aurora is built with the HPE Cray EX supercomputer and uses the HPE Slingshot high-performance fabric […] More

BAE Systems has hosted a hackathon to advance geospatial intelligence technology in a bid to improve artificial intelligence-enabled missions. The company said Monday the event is part of its Mission Advantage Program and includes leading AI and data fusion companies such as Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft. Participants demonstrated GEOINT capabilities, with companies identifying services and frameworks to […] More