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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, produces articles on the federal government's technology and business interests. The coverage of these articles include government contracting, cybersecurity, information technology, health care and national security.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Northrop Grumman to prototype an artificial intelligence technology that would integrate with augmented reality platform to assist helicopter pilots in performing their tasks. The company will work with the University of Central Florida to develop the Operator and Context Adaptive Reasoning Intuitive Assistant under DARPA’s Perceptually-enabled Task […] More
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Lightsense Technology’s drug detection device to law enforcement organizations using its government contracts. DrugDetect-M1 is a light-based sensing device designed to help law enforcement officials detect the presence of opioid threats, Carahsoft said Monday. Public sector entities may now access DrugDetect-M1 through Carahsoft’s contracts with NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide […] More
CAES has partnered with Lattice Semiconductor to qualify and distribute the latter’s field-programmable gate array for use in space systems. The Arlington, Virginia-based electronics manufacturer said Monday Lattice’s radiation-resistant Certus-NX-RT and CertusPro FPGAs will be added to its space product portfolio and offered as reconfigurable processing systems for future satellites. The Lattice-made FPGAs build on […] More
Three individuals and two teams will split $150,000 in prizes following their win in the xView3 competition that the Defense Innovation Unit hosted to seek an open-source algorithm for detecting dark vessels engaged in illegal fishing. DIU said Monday it partnered with Global Fishing Watch to facilitate the three-month contest, challenging 1,900 participants in 67 […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed the first delivery of an F-16 aircraft to the U.S. Air Force under a program to sustain the jets and provide associated life cycle support for the fleet. The company said it worked on and eventually sent back the F-16 unit to USAF as part of the F-16 Sustainment Depot program, […] More
CACI International will deliver 40 optical communications terminals for inter-satellite links to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under a $16.3 million contract awarded to SA Photonics, which was acquired by the Reston, Virginia-based defense contractor in December, Space News reported Saturday. The terminals are envisioned to facilitate data transfer for the Department of Defense’s […] More
Twelve companies have each received a five-year contract with a maximum value of $39.4 million for construction work at Virginia-based NASA sites and potentially other locations. Work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will primarily take place at Langley Research Center and Wallops Flight Facility, with the potential of being conducted at other sites, NASA said Friday. […] More
Carahsoft Technology will distribute Talend’s Data Fabric platform to help government agencies meet data privacy and quality requirements in support of U.S. citizens. The partnership between the two companies aims to assist federal, state and local agencies in pursuing digital transformation and enhancing use of data to augment citizen-facing services, Carahsoft said Thursday. Talend Data […] More
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has added new automation and optimization features to the Earth observation service chain of an orchestrated satellite ground system. The company said Thursday its Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Service Chain or EO/RS SC now works to automate service delivery tasks for the OpenSpace Platform, a fully virtualized ground system. […] More
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has chosen Microsoft’s Azure Quantum cloud ecosystem to speed up the scheduling of spacecraft communications. The company’s Azure Quantum team created a product designed to address JPL’s scheduling issues associated with the Deep Space Network, which NASA uses to communicate with spacecraft, Anita Ramanan, a senior software engineer for the Azure […] More
Datadog has secured clearance under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a platform offering designed to help government customers monitor information technology applications as they transition to cloud infrastructure. The Department of Veterans Affairs acted as the company’s sponsor agency for FedRAMP authorization of its cloud observability platform at the moderate impact level, […] More
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has partnered with Australia-based Hypersonix Launch Systems to demonstrate a 3D printed hypersonic drone powered by a hydrogen scramjet engine. The autonomous DART AE drone with a fifth-generation SPARTAN engine will use high-temperature materials and is the team’s proposal to the Australian government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative, Kratos said Tuesday. Kratos […] More
