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Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, has asked Congress for $79.8 million in his fiscal year 2022 unfunded priority list to fund testing of new terminal prototypes that can connect with multiple commercial constellations. The requested amount would continue testing of SpaceX and OneWeb low-Earth-orbit satellite […] More
Iridium Communications is participating in a series of field exercises that aim to demonstrate the satelite communication capabilities of a range of applications in the polar regions. The company said Thursday it will field its satcom technologies across exercises involving remote environment, at-the-halt, on-base and communications-on-the-move scenarios during Operation Arctic Lynx. The event, scheduled to […] More
Leonardo handed over the first TH-73A helicopter to the U.S. Navy for training the branch’s tiltrotor and rotary-wing aviators, as part of a $171 million initial aircraft production contract awarded in January 2020. The Advanced Helicopter Training System, which is derived from the AgustaWestland AW119 Koala, will replace the TH-57B/C Sea Ranger used by military […] More
The Department of Defense has selected a data security platform developed by Varonis Systems to help validate cybersecurity approaches and technologies in support of a joint zero trust effort between the National Security Agency, U.S. Cyber Command and Defense Information Systems Agency. The Varonis Data Security Platform was added to the DOD Zero Trust Testbed […] More
CynergisTek’s Redspin subsidiary has received approval from the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body to perform audit work to determine the cyber readiness level of contractors before they do business with the Department of Defense. Redspin said Wednesday it became the first CMMC third-party assessment organization after the Austin-based security audit services provider completed maturity […] More
Raytheon Technologies and Huntington Ingalls Industries are working to install four naval radar arrays on the U.S. Navy’s USS Jack H. Lucas guided missile destroyer to provide the newly launched ship with threat detection capability. DDG-125, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that is the first to apply the Flight III configuration, will feature the SPY-6 radar […] More
Tim Rod, chief technology officer of Red River, said he sees security technologies and software-defined wide area network as some of the emerging technologies that will have a major impact on the federal government’s operations in the coming years. He told FedScoop in an interview posted Wednesday that the shift to remote work and supply […] More
Intel, Amazon Web Services and Megh Computing have formed a partnership to launch a Citizens Broadband Radio Service private network intended to provide a community IN Sacramento, California with broadband access to enable remote learning. Intel said Tuesday the CBRS network is planned to cover a three-quarter-mile area and give high-speed internet connectivity access to […] More
Kymeta has paired its u8 antenna with the SLM-5650B modem of Comtech EF Data in an effort to enable users to use existing network hardware and gain a satellite communication-on-the-move capability. The two companies teamed up and employed the Open Antenna to Modem Interface Protocol for the integration of the u8 antenna with the Comtech […] More
The FBI is seeking potential industry sources that could provide technical support services for data centers and other information technology operations at five locations under a new contract. The bureau’s Data Center Hardware and Operating Systems Section considers using a governmentwide acquisition contract to procure IT professional engineering services to ensure that the FBI’s classified […] More
Honeywell has launched its Advanced Monitoring and Incident Response service designed to provide 24/7 operational technology cybersecurity detection and rapid response for current and future cyber threats. “Honeywell’s Advanced Monitoring and Incident Response solution provides a combination of advanced cybersecurity software, experts, and playbooks with remediation guidance in order to better detect, prevent, analyze, evaluate […] More
The U.S. Marine Corps has completed a flight test of an AH-1Z Viper helicopter, built by Textron’s Bell subsidiary, with a Northrop Grumman-made tactical data link system to demonstrate two-way communications between the aircraft and a ground terminal. For the demonstration, the partnership equipped AH-1Z with the Link-16 mission package comprised of a digital moving […] More
