Virgin Orbit’s Air-Launched Rocket to Carry 11 Small NASA Satellites
Virgin Orbit aims to help NASA bring 11 small satellites to space later this year as part of the second launch demonstration of an air-launched rocket.
Nichols Martin
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.
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L3Harris to Enter Air Force NTS-3 Spacecraft Fabrication Phase
L3Harris Technologies will move to build a satellite for position, navigation and timing system demonstrations after the company passed a critical design review with the U.S. Air Force. The Melbourne, Fla.-based defense firm can now begin the production of Navigation Technology Satellite-3 the service branch intends to launch into geostationary orbit sometime in 2022.
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AppTek Adds 41 Languages to Booz Allen’s Enterprise AI Marketplace;Â Josh Sullivan Quoted
AppTek has introduced 16 languages for automatic speech recognition and 25 for neural machine translation via Booz Allen Hamilton's enterprise artificial intelligence platform and marketplace. Booz Allen introduced the Modzy software offering in late 2019 for government and enterprise customers to access, deploy and manage AI models, AppTek said Thursday.
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USGS Selects Dewberry for Utah Mapping Project
Dewberry will map approximately 13,600 square miles of land across 12 counties in Utah under a mapping service contract from the U.S. Geological Survey. The company said Thursday it will collect and analyze data using a light detection and ranging system for the project area encompassing the counties of Cache, Carbon, Dagget, Duchesne, Emery, Grand, Morgan, Iron, Weber, Summit, Washington and Uintah.
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L3Harris Wins Potential $83M Contract to Build, Test Navy Wideband Satcom Modem
L3Harris Technologies has won a potential seven-year, $83.1M contract to develop, integrate and demonstrate an anti-jam modem intended for wideband satellite communications. The Navy Wideband Anti-Jam Modem contract, which has an initial value of $47.6M, includes options for the company to manufacture the hardware and perform engineering support work, the Department of Defense said Thursday.
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in Executive Moves, NewsFormer DoD Official Andrew Weber Joins Zeteo Tech Board
Andrew Weber – former assistant secretary for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs at the Department of Defense – has joined the board of directors at Sykesville, Md.-based biological mass spectrometer technology provider Zeteo Tech.
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HawkEye 360 Launches Regional Signal Awareness Service; Alex Fox Quoted
HawkEye 360 has introduced a service offering designed to help customers gain signal awareness across large regions with the use of radio frequency monitoring technology. The Regional Awareness Subscription service uses HawkEye 360's RFGeo platform to support radio signal identification, analysis and monitoring activities, the company said Tuesday.
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ASTRA Selected for Space Force’s Cloud Characterization Tech Project
The U.S. Space Force has tasked Atmosphere and Space Technology Research Associates to build and test a military-grade prototype technology intended to characterize Earth's clouds. ASTRA said Tuesday it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Pumpkin and Atmospheric and Environmental Research to develop the cloud characterization system.
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Woolpert to Help FAA-Backed Alliance Develop UAS Threat Response Guidance
Woolpert has been selected by the National Safe Skies Alliance to create a document that would guide airports on collaborative planning and response to address security risks from unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Tuesday it will produce a guidebook that will outline strategies for airport operators to assess, respond to and recover from UAS threats.
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in Executive Moves, NewsNuclear Energy Sector Vet Mano Nazar Named Operating Partner at AE Industrial Partners
Mano Nazar, former president of NextEra Energy's nuclear business, has been appointed an operating partner of AE Industrial Partners, a private equity firm that focuses on the defense and aerospace markets. He will concurrently serve as board chairman at BHI Energy, a portfolio company of AEI, the investment company said Tuesday.