Jane Edwards

Booz Allen Hamilton has launched a $100 million venture capital arm to speed up the development and deployment of commercial technologies designed to support the missions of federal agency clients. Booz Allen Ventures will invest in startups that are developing technologies in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning, defense, deep technology and cybersecurity, […] More

Lockheed Martin handed over to the Air Force Research Laboratory an airborne laser weapon system in February as part of AFRL’s Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator program, Breaking Defense reported Monday. The company developed the directed energy weapon, also known as the Laser Advancements for Next-generation Compact Environments or LANCE, under a contract awarded in […] More

Definitive Logic has helped the administrative resource center at the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service deploy a cloud-based application designed to enable over 40 shared service agency customers to automate the production of quarterly and annual close financial statements. The company said Monday it applied its data-driven approach and used the […] More

Rikki Singh, an associate partner at McKinsey & Co., said the management consulting firm launched a program in May to train and upskill product managers through an eight-part speaker series featuring product leaders. She said there will be 3 to 5 million new program managers worldwide by 2025 and the company believes upskilling and empowering […] More

U.K.-based Reaction Engines has kicked off testing of its high-Mach propulsion system under a contract with the Department of Defense.  The company said Thursday it started the testing campaign as part of the Foreign Comparative Testing Program, which seeks to discover, test and evaluate foreign technologies that could meet U.S. defense technical needs and emerging […] More

The Department of Defense is supporting 5G testing and experimentation projects at military installations through a $600 million program and the satellite industry is keeping an eye on such experiments and how DOD would further advance 5G amid the increasing integration of non-terrestrial networks into the 5G ecosystem, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Rick Lober, vice president […] More

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has announced the launch of a new initiative to advance agency efforts meant to address threats and risks posed by quantum computing to data and critical infrastructure. The Post-Quantum Cryptography Initiative will build on programs at the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Standards and Technology […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected the first batch of four encryption algorithms designed to resist an attack from a future quantum computer that could potentially break the security codes used to safeguard email software, online banking and other digital platforms. NIST said Tuesday the encryption tools will become part of the […] More