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is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
Rheinmetall and metal components producer Fraen have formed a joint venture that will develop and manufacture military fuzes in the U.S. Rheinmetall said Monday it will own a 51 percent stake in Rheinmetall Fraen Fuzes and Fraen will hold the remaining 49 percent in the new JV.
Dan Schultz, president of Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary, told Defense One in an interview published Thursday about several helicopter projects including a potential $1.1B contract with the U.S. Marine Corps to build 12 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters.
Adam Clater, chief architect for North America public sector at Red Hat, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that federal agencies should advance information technology modernization and the initial step they need to do is avoiding proprietary or vendor lock-in arrangements when it comes to cloud adoption.
The General Service Administration plans to conduct a hackathon on June 19 in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and six other GSA locations to enhance the usability of some agency applications and improve customer experience, Fedscoop reported Friday.
A source selection statement issued by NASA Thursday shows that price and contract terms were the factors that helped Maxar Technologies win a  $375M contract to build and demonstrate a power and propulsion element for the agency’s proposed lunar Gateway space station, SpaceNews reported Friday.
John Kamensky, a senior fellow with the IBM Center for the Business of Government, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that the federal workforce should undergo retraining as several factors shape the future of work. Kamensky mentioned some of the forces that could change how work will be carried out in the future that were cited in an article published in Harvard Business Review.
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have conducted an endurance exercise to test the capability of a new surveillance radar to detect space debris. The Space Fence radar system released a “breakup alert†after it detected a large amount of debris fields from an anti-satellite test carried out by India to destroy the Microsat-R satellite at approximately 300 kilometers, Lockheed said Wednesday.
The Professional Services Council Foundation has issued a report that assesses the federal government’s adoption of artificial intelligence and identifies the opportunities and challenges agencies face when it comes to AI implementation. The report highlighted opportunities that AI offers to the government including reduction in backlog; optimization of resource allocation; accelerated decision making; fraud prevention; and extraction of insights from large amounts of data.
The U.S. Air Force has begun to assess whether it can integrate an artificial intelligence platform, Skyborg, into an F-35 or F-15EX fighter aircraft to enable pilots to control the Kratos Defense-built XQ-58 Valkyrie unmanned air vehicle and other drones, Defense News reported Wednesday. Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, told the publication Tuesday that the service is in talks with Lockheed Martin and Boeing on the plan to team fighter aircraft with drones through the Skyborg program.
Production of Mk48 torpedoes went on hiatus for 20 years and Science Applications International Corp. is now starting to manufacture the propulsion system and other afterbody sections of the submarine-launched weapon at its Bedford, Ind.-based facility under a contract with the U.S. Navy, Seapower reported Tuesday.
Lockheed Martin has started implementing Agile development process since August 2018 and is now set to deploy in the summer the software upgrade for the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 fighter aircraft, FCW reported Tuesday.
