Jane Edwards

Leidos subsidiary Dynetics completed on Saturday its first test launch of a hypersonic test bed from Rocket Lab‘s launch complex at a spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The inaugural launch was conducted as part of the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed program awarded by Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane under the […] More

Intel has unveiled a new silicon chip designed to support quantum computing research efforts. Tunnel Falls is a 12-qubit device fabricated on 300-millimeter wafers and leverages Intel’s gate and contact processing methods and extreme ultraviolet lithography, the company said Thursday. The company also partnered with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland, […] More

A team of researchers at IBM demonstrated the capability of a quantum computer to generate accurate results at a scale of more than 100 quantum bits using novel error mitigation techniques. IBM said Wednesday the error mitigation techniques were developed to address the noise or disturbances that cause errors in the computations of quantum computers. […] More

The State Risk and Authorization Management Program has added Paperless Innovations’ cloud-based procurement management platform Actus to the authorized product list after the offering passed the audit by third-party assessment organization Earthling Security and received authorization from the StateRAMP program management office. Earthling Security said Wednesday it assessed the Actus platform in Amazon Web Services […] More

A Capgemini Research Institute study has found that 73 percent of aerospace and defense companies have a long-term roadmap in place for digital twin technology, up from 57 percent of A&D organizations surveyed in 2021. The institute said Thursday it surveyed 150 A&D organizations in April and found that such entities said they plan to […] More

The U.S. Air Force has designated the aircraft that Boeing is building under NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project as the X-66A. X-66A is an X-plane meant to help the U.S. achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as stated in the White House’s Aviation Climate Action Plan, the space agency said Monday. An industry […] More

Google Cloud has submitted its security package for Department of Defense Impact Level 5 in a machine-readable format, called Open Security Control Assessment Language, via the government’s web-based application eMass. OSCAL represents security control assessments developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and is meant to automate security assessments and facilitate the sharing […] More