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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.
Maxar Technologies has provided the Australian defense department with 3D data suite and satellite imagery meant to inform military decision-making process and enhance situational awareness in support of national defense and intelligence missions. The company said Thursday its 3D Surface Model for the Australian agency is designed to show terrain and surface features and textures […] More
Microsoft was named as founding member of the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center, an organization that fosters exchanges of intelligence on security threats faced by the space industry. The company will share its global threat insights to help the space community secure critical infrastructure and expand cybersecurity expertise, Tom Keane, corporate vice president for […] More
Northrop Grumman has conducted another flight test of its wideband sensor technology designed with an open mission systems architecture to support electronic warfare, sensing, communications and early warning radar systems. The Terracotta active electronically scanned array exhibited simultaneous performance of both active and passive modes for radio frequency identification, the company said Tuesday. Paul Kalafos, […] More
Raytheon Technologies‘ research center and two of the company’s business units are exploring approaches to better manage heat loads for aircraft engines as the U.S. military works to define next-generation fighter requirements. Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney partnered in an effort to develop power and thermal management systems that may have potential applications to […] More
PavCon, a woman-owned small business, partnered with Amazon Web Services to build an artificial intelligence-based predictive maintenance platform for the U.S. Air Force. PavCon’s CRiSTL platform works to detect and repair anomalies in aircraft equipment before problems occur using AI and data analytics hosted in AWS GovCloud (US), which can accommodate Impact Level 5 mission-critical […] More
Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the U.S. needs to increase its investments in advanced computing, including artificial intelligence and applications used to analyze large data volumes, in order to compete with China, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday. “If there were an area I would point to […] More
Mitre has introduced an open-source tool that seeks to help organizations ensure that their threat intelligence and tactics, techniques and procedures are aligned with the ATT&CK knowledge base, a framework of tactics and techniques used by threat defenders to classify cyberattacks and assess and organization’s risk. The ATT&CK Workbench enables users to create, explore, annotate […] More
Iridium Communications has made its satellite network-supported L-band broadband service class offering available for use in government, maritime and mobile land operations. The company said Tuesday its Certus 200 service can now deliver up to 176 Kbps of internet transmission speed for maritime and land-mobile applications via a lightweight antenna. The broadband service, designed for […] More
Kymeta will provide eight connectivity terminals to the U.S. Army’s Armored Brigade Combat Team for a pilot program that will focus on testing on-the-move communications equipment for military applications. The company said its u8 technology, an electronically controlled antenna that can support low Earth orbit and geostationary satellite constellations, will be integrated into and tested […] More
Clarifai, an artificial intelligence company, has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with a directorate under a U.S. Army command to work on a large-scale electro-optical/infrared data labeling effort. The Army will evaluate the capability of AI-powered Clarifai Scribe Labeler to produce training data in support of the development of night vision and […] More
Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $13 million contract to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyze and process biological data. The company said Tuesday it will perform scientific computing and bioinformatics services to support CDC’s Office of Advanced Molecular Detection. Work under the contract will include information technology, data management, high-performance computing […] More
Oshkosh Defense will establish a site in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to facilitate the development of a new fleet of delivery vehicles for the U.S. Postal Service. The company will add more than a thousand members to its workforce for the facility’s operations and expects on-site suppliers to hire more personnel for the Next Generation Delivery […] More
