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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Hear about the latest product and service offerings from the government contracting industry’s leading providers. The Government Technology News section highlights developments in aerospace, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, defense, C4ISR, cloud, hypersonics, and space.
Sepio Systems has broaden its partnership with Merlin Cyber‘s investment arm in an effort to market the hardware access control company’s zero trust technology designed to provide federal agencies with full physical layer visibility. Merlin Ventures will help deploy to federal customers Sepio Systems’ Hardware Access Control-1 software, which was developed to enable government’s maximized […] More
The Department of Defense’s Cyber Crime Center has teamed up with Looking Glass on a pilot program that is aimed at outlining a defense company’s security vulnerabilities and providing recommendations on how to address them amid increasing cyber attacks, Nextgov reported Friday. The Krystal Ball program will provide insight into the cybersecurity posture of a […] More
Northrop Grumman has delivered the spacecraft bus of a future navigation satellite being built by L3Harris Technologies for the U.S. Space Force to help the service branch in reducing interference to position, navigation and timing capabilities. Air Force Research Laboratory said Thursday the ESPAStar-D bus is designed to provide communications, critical subsystems and payload-mounting structures […] More
Unanet announced on Monday that the company has entered into a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) agreement with MPF Federal, a government contractor (GovCon) supporting a wide range of federal agencies including the Department of Defense (DOD), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and others. “MPF Federal has proven itself to be an invaluable support […] More
Verizon and the U.S. Marine Corps demonstrated the former’s 5G-based Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response prototype vehicle at the service’s installation in California, Nextgov reported Friday. “At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar this week, we demonstrated THOR’s ability to enable a fully-operational 5G network that allowed: autonomous robot communication to a self-driving battery delivery vehicle, video […] More
AeroVironment and NASA plan to design a hexacopter for using data from demonstrations of the Ingenuity robotic helicopter on Mars, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The partnership is exploring a new six-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle concept, dubbed Mars Science Helicopter, with a maximum payload capacity of 5 kilograms. “We’re trying to look at the science applications: what […] More
Bell Textron is now shifting focus to an upcoming U.S. Army aircraft program of record competition in summer after ending the three-year flight testing of its V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft. The Textron subsidiary said Thursday that it would start working on the weapons system and subsystem designs of its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft candidate. Bell […] More
Two flight software products from Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, now conform to standards of the Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment, also known as the FACE Consortium. Collins said Thursday its Mission Flight Management Software and Localizer Performance and Vertical Guidance Calculator have been FACE-certified following the completion of an independent verification and […] More
Merlin Cyber has made a new online resource available to federal agencies in an effort to help them comply with an executive order focused on improving defense against hackers. The EO Resource Center will detail the requirements outlined in the White House directive and recommend various commercial technologies that can help agencies meet them, the […] More
A Zoom Video Communications platform has achieved a Department of the Air Force authorization to operate with conditions to support the service’s communication and collaboration activities at Department of Defense Impact Level 4. The ATO-C approval will enable the Air Force to conduct IL4 meetings with contractors, system integrators and federal agencies through Zoom for […] More
Curtiss-Wright will take part in a multidisciplinary team working on the Secure Automation for Advanced Reactor Innovation initiative aimed at developing digital twin technologies to be installed in nuclear power plants. The University of Michigan-led Project SAFARI is one of the nine programs under the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s Generating Electricity Managed by Intelligent Nuclear […] More
For its latest Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz had the opportunity to speak with Steven Bilby, president of Cherokee Federal, about the significant growth and success the company has had in the federal sector, recent contract wins, the drive for IT solutions, including unmanned capabilities, data and other emerging technology as well as the importance of […] More
