Government Technology

VLogic Systems has received an authority to operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based facility management software and advanced internet of things-based technology offerings. The Massachusetts-based company said Wednesday the Department of Veterans Affairs-sponsored ATO designation positions it to be an approved provider for federal agencies on the FedRAMP Marketplace. The […] More

NASA transmitted data from space to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California using a CACI International-built optical communications terminal on the Psyche spacecraft that was deployed as part of the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment. CACI said Thursday the space agency sent the space-based data to JPL at a distance of more than 200 kilometers […] More

Second Front Systems and Microsoft have joined forces to accelerate software as a service delivery for government agencies. Under the partnership, 2F said Tuesday it will integrate its Game Warden platform with Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud service to allow agencies to adopt innovative services faster and more securely while meeting government security standards. Tyler Sweatt, CEO of […] More

An annual Deltek study has found that government contractors consider artificial intelligence and machine learning their top priorities for technology investment as they intend to improve efficiency, save time and reduce operational costs. Deltek said Tuesday it surveyed nearly 650 GovCon leaders for the 2024 Clarity Government Contracting Industry Study and found that 34 percent […] More

Leidos and Elroy Air have secured approval to demonstrate the latter’s Chaparral autonomous vertical take-off and landing aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle – Expeditionary Logistics program. The MARV-EL flight test activities will take place in July at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in Yuma, Arizona, to demonstrate the ability […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel have delivered the Aurora exascale supercomputer to the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, providing researchers access to an artificial intelligence-capable system with a computing capacity of one quintillion operations per second. Aurora is built with the HPE Cray EX supercomputer and uses the HPE Slingshot high-performance fabric […] More

General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business unit has secured a contract from U.S. Special Operations Command to develop a new airborne battlespace awareness and defense capability for the MQ-9A Block 5 remotely piloted aircraft. ABAD will feature a next-generation software-defined radio-based electronic warfare system from BAE Systems and the AN/AAQ-45 Distributed Aperture Infrared Countermeasure System advanced […] More

Rocket Lab USA has started the test campaign for a new 3D-printed reusable engine for its Neutron medium-lift rocket at its test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The company said Monday the test campaign was initiated following the completion of the first full assembly of the Archimedes rocket engine. The Archimedes engine, […] More

The U.S. Army has demonstrated an integrated mission planning and airspace control software suite developed by General Dynamics‘ mission system division at the multinational Project Convergence-Capstone 4 force exercise. During the demonstration, soldiers used the Integrated Mission Planning and Airspace Control Tools software to plan a rotary wing mission and load mission data into a […] More

Maxar Intelligence and Lockheed Martin will streamline the purchase and delivery of geospatial products for the F-35 fighter jet’s flight simulation and training platform under a new agreement. Maxar said Monday the long-term agreement with Lockheed seeks to standardize licensing, pricing and requirements for its products, including Dynamic imagery basemaps and Precision3D Data Suite, as […] More

SAP National Security Services has received Impact Level 4 provisional authorization from the Defense Information and Systems Agency for its cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform. SAP NS2 said Thursday the DISA IL4 authorization allows it to deploy the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition ERP offering within the Department of Defense’s cloud environment to support enterprise […] More

Boeing demonstrated virtually the capability of its manned-unmanned teaming software to perform aerial refueling missions using a digital F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet and an MQ-25 Stingray drone. Boeing said Wednesday that a Super Hornet pilot tested the MUM-T software by sending commands to the MQ-25 drone to refuel the fighter jet during a demonstration […] More