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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory provided a preview of their novel off-board sensing station as part of the service branch's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program. The XQ-67A sensing drone underwent high-speed taxi tests in preparation for flight trials that were originally set for the first half of fiscal year 2024.
Anduril Industries introduced a new line of imaging and targeting sensors designed for autonomous air vehicles and other airborne combat applications. The company on Thursday launched its Iris family of sensors, which features its proprietary Computational Pixel Imager technology.
Oracle has obtained FedRAMP High authorization for over 16 of its new cloud infrastructure services for government customers. The company announced Wednesday that it also added nine features to existing cloud products with FedRAMP High certification, including Cloud Guard Threat Detector, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps and OCI Identity and Access Management.
Microsoft has added its Azure OpenAI service to its Azure Government cloud services platform, said Candice Ling, Microsoft Federal's vice president of strategic missions and technologies and winner of the Wash100 Award. In an article posted Tuesday, Ling said the company intends to apply for FedRAMP High certification as well as Department of Defense Impact Level 4 and 5 authorizations for Azure OpenAI.
Partnerships with the IT industry can help higher education institutions not only in their core operations but also in guarding intellectual property and other data and analytics, according to Tim Boltz, sales director at Carahsoft. In a blog published Monday, Boltz provided highlights of the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference held in October, which included sessions about cyber risk management and cyberinfrastructure in academic research.
The U.S. Department of State has approved a proposed $150 million sale of AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles to the government of the Netherlands. The sale includes 386 units of AGM-114R2 as well as technical assistance from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command's Security Assistance Management Directorate, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced Friday.
Zero trust is increasingly becoming a critical component of cybersecurity as threats resort more to data-centric attacks, said Garrett Yee, General Dynamics Information Technology's vice president and general manager for the U.S. Army and defense agencies sector. In an interview with Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International, Yee shared his short- and long-term outlook for zero trust and how artificial intelligence is impacting tactical decision-making.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Serco Inc. a $90 million follow-on contract to continue implementing IBM's TRIRIGA software at the maintenance and installation systems division of the U.S. Air Force Program Executive Office for Business Enterprise Systems. The potential five-year contract includes a base performance period of one year and four one-year option periods, the company said Wednesday.
ManTech and Trust Stamp are combining their capabilities to create a privacy-first identity management technology powered by artificial intelligence. Trust Stamp announced Monday that it entered into a teaming agreement to integrate its Irreversibly Transformed Identity Token into ManTech's analytics and other product offerings.
The Space Systems Command chose Northrop Grumman's Passive Refueling Module as the first preferred refueling standard for its satellites. Northrop said Monday that the system is a result of its agreement with SSC and the Defense Innovation Unit and is part of the Geosynchronous Auxiliary Support Tanker contract.
The State Department cleared a proposed $500 million sale of eight UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters and its components to the government of Croatia. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency gave Congress the required certification for the proposed foreign military sale, which will be fulfilled by lead contractor Sikorsky, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin.
The General Services Administration selected Guidehouse as its consultant for carbon pollution-free electricity acquisitions. The agreement enables GSA to obtain services ranging from retail and wholesale electricity market price analysis to procurement strategies compliant with Executive Order 14057, which focuses on clean energy-related job creation.
