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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.
Lockheed Martin will hand over to the U.S. Navy another training system for the Sikorsky-built CH-53K King Stallion heavy lift helicopter. The CH-53K Containerized Flight Training Device will provide a virtual environment to enable U.S. Marine Corps aviators to train on external lift operations and other heavy lift missions, Lockheed said Wednesday. “Marine pilots have […] More
The Defense Innovation Unit and the office of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment have announced the addition of several small unmanned aircraft systems to the Department of Defense’s cleared list of drones as part of the second iteration of the Blue sUAS project. The approved drones are Intense Eye V2 from Blue […] More
Dean Bellamy, executive vice president of national security space at Redwire, said the government should prepare for “maneuver warfare” in the space domain by advancing the development of more agile and resilient satellites. Bellamy, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on SpaceNews that satellites are critical to U.S. […] More
NASA has awarded nearly $27 million in Phase II Sequential funding to six companies under the Small Business Innovation Research program to continue to develop technology platforms for lunar science and exploration and for unmanned aerial vehicles that could help address wildfires. The six small business awardees were selected for the Sequential awards after maturing […] More
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched its Frontier supercomputer designed to help researchers accelerate scientific discoveries. Frontier is the world’s first exascale computer composed of 74 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cray EX cabinets that include 9,400 Advanced Micro Devices-powered nodes and 90 miles of interconnect cables, ORNL said Wednesday. “Exascale computing is […] More
KBR has received a potential $20 million contract to help the U.S. Geological Survey deploy, repair, operate and maintain its domestic and international seismographic systems. The company said Wednesday its team of engineers and scientists will install and operate the USGS component of a digital network of over 150 geophysical and seismological sensors worldwide, dubbed […] More
A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary has launched a wearable device and SIM technology designed to help the military, government agencies and other organizations meet the communications and situational awareness needs of their workforce. NexGenTrac Watch from Raytheon Blackbird Technologies uses the data service of NexGen Global SIM to deliver emergency signaling, mission-critical communications and personnel accountability […] More
Spire Global and Ursa Space Systems have teamed up to merge their capabilities and help U.S. federal agency clients track illegal activity in the maritime domain. Spire will provide automatic identification system data and combine it with synthetic aperture radar imagery sourced by Ursa Space to help detect and monitor “dark” ships that may be […] More
LMI has received a three-year task order to support the logistics and medical component of thJoint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense. Pete Pflugrath, executive vice president of markets and growth at LMI, said in a statement published Monday the company is thrilled to support the JPEO-CBRND mission by facilitating the […] More
SpaceX has received certification from the U.S. Space Force to launch classified intelligence, surveillance and early-warning satellites using previously flown first-stage boosters on its Falcon Heavy rocket, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The certification issued in June allows the company to use the recyclable side boosters in launching national security missions and the service branch said one […] More
Howard Porter, corporate director and senior vice president of contracts at CACI International, said the company’s contract management system has become a centralized platform for data that CACI uses to facilitate its decision-making processes, Federal News Network reported Thursday. “Our contract system is really the front-end system for our company,” said Porter. “It feeds our […] More
Boeing and Nammo, a Norway-based aerospace and defense company, fired a ramjet-powered projectile from a cannon during a test held in late June in Norway. “We believe the Boeing Ramjet 155, with continued technology maturation and testing, can help the U.S. Army meet its long-range precision fires modernization priorities,” Steve Nordlund, vice president and general […] More
