Jane Edwards

Raytheon will begin installing worldwide the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System’s monitor station receivers in August. “The modernized receivers give GPS OCX the ability to receive and decrypt all GPS III military and civil signals, a critical capability the current system doesn't have," Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services segment, said in a statement published Monday.

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In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community's venture capital arm, and Sysdig have entered into a strategic partnership to field a new platform designed to provide government agencies control and insight as they adopt multicloud, containers, Kubernetes and other modern information technology platforms.

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Wes Kremer, who took over as president of Raytheon’s missile systems business on March 30, told the Arizona Daily Star in an interview published Sunday that a lot of the company’s weapons development programs are “threat-driven.”

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Splunk surveyed over 1.3K information technology managers and found that 77 percent of IT respondents in the public sector said finding and utilizing dark and grey data should be considered a top priority, FedScoop reported Thursday. The survey showed that 76 percent of respondents claimed lack of senior-level support at their agencies was a challenge to using dark and grey data.

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Blue Origin’s lunar lander at a press conference held Thursday in Washington, D.C., Bloomberg reported Friday. The Blue Moon lander has an internal spherical power tank atop four landing pads and is powered by liquid hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cells.

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The Department of Energy and ExxonMobil have signed a 10-year agreement to research and develop technologies designed to reduce emissions from petrochemicals and fossil fuels production. DOE said Wednesday ExxonMobil will invest up to $100M over a decade in the department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and National Energy Technology Laboratory to advance the development of platforms meant to enhance energy efficiency and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

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In-Q-Tel and Tamr have formed a strategic partnership that seeks to help government agencies address data unification challenges with the use of a machine learning-based technology. IQT said Wednesday it will help the company further develop and field its patented enterprise software platform Tamr Unify, which uses machine learning and human expertise to unify data across multiple silos to generate insights.

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