Jane Edwards

Sierra Nevada Corp. and Israel-based BIRD Aerosystems have agreed to offer airborne missile protection systems to the U.S. Department of Defense, foreign military sales customers and other international commercial clients. BIRD’s family of AMPS platforms complies with the Army’s Modular Open System Approach and works to protect warfighters and aircraft from radar-guided missiles and other […] More

A developer of plasma-based satellite propulsion systems for government and commercial aerospace and defense customers has received an investment from Veteran Ventures Capital through the investment firm’s Veteran Fund I. The capital infused into Phase Four marks Veteran Ventures’ fourth investment, the investment firm said Thursday. “Their technology stack and propulsion product lines are aligned […] More

Intellian Technologies has launched a research and development center in Rockville, Maryland, and announced plans to invest $100 million in efforts to conduct research and build satellite communications technology platforms. The company said Wednesday the Advanced Development Center will house top tech industry talent focused on developing satellite user terminals and phased array antennas. With […] More

A 22-pound 5G satellite built by Barcelona, Spain-based startup Sateliot launched on April 15 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Space.com reported Tuesday. The Sateliot_0 orbital data relay, also known as the Groundbreaker, is the first of over 250 satellites that will make up a constellation in low […] More

General Motors and South Korea-based Samsung SDI plan to make an investment of more than $3 billion to establish a new facility in the U.S. to produce battery cells for electric vehicles. The companies expect the manufacturing plant to be operational by 2026 with over 30 Gigawatt hours of battery cell capacity, according to a […] More

Caveonix has launched its next-generation hybrid cloud governance platform designed to protect applications built on containers, three-tiered architecture and cloud-native services. Caveonix Cloud 5.0 works to provide actionable insights to users using its DefenseBot technology and artificial intelligence and automate enterprise governance, risk and compliance to help standardize processes and model scenarios, the company said […] More

Maxar Technologies is preparing to launch in the summer of 2023 the first two of the six imaging satellites planned for the WorldView Legion constellation, SpaceNews reported Monday. “It’s been more about finalizing all of the preflight checks, completing the flight software and getting all of our last testing before we go downrange and put […] More

Jonathan Moneymaker, CEO of BlueHalo and a previous Wash100 awardee, said the Space Rapid Capabilities Office under the U.S. Space Force will be the first customer of the company’s mobile electronic phased array antenna in support of the Satellite Communications Augmentation Resource program, SpaceNews reported Saturday. According to Moneymaker, the BlueHalo antenna, dubbed Badger, is […] More

Carahsoft Technology will start offering digital identity management and verification platforms from Okta and Socure to public sector customers through its reseller partners and contract vehicles. Carahsoft said Thursday government customers can gain access to Socure’s ID+ Platform identity verification and fraud prevention tool, Okta Universal Directory identity management offering, Okta Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication and […] More

James Clevenger, director of government sales at Hughes Network Systems, said there are three key takeaways from a recent event attended by state information technology leaders in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and one of those is that government agencies are initiating efforts to be more agile by adopting emerging technologies to meet their enterprise objectives […] More