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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.
Microsoft has collaborated with Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, to create a tool for tracking the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world and progress in vaccination efforts throughout the U.S.
D-Fend Solutions added new clients and tripled base capacity for its counter-small unmanned aircraft system platform during 2020.
General Electric and Honeywell will help NASA develop turbofan engine technologies as part of a research project to potentially increase the energy efficiency of core power systems for commercial transport and hybrid-electric aircraft. NASA said Friday it entered into separate agreements with the two companies to explore power extraction approaches for the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core initiative.
Northrop Grumman intends to equip the U.S. Navy's fleet of E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early warning aircraft with a new Leonardo-made high-frequency radio designed for protected voice and data communications and stable information transfer.
Microsoft has teamed up with 11 companies to develop a technology platform that could help ensure the security of microelectronics design and manufacturing using the Azure cloud service.
Mercury Systems has introduced a new rackmount server technology designed to withstand harsh environments and ensure the integrity of data for artificial intelligence and electronic warfare applications.
Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance and a previous Wash100 Award winner, said the U.S. government should encourage investments in new space activities with national security and commercial applications to make them attractive to investors, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has adopted a CGI-made enterprise platform as part of a program intended to modernize the department's procurement and financial operations. VA implemented CGI's Momentum, a system designed to help agencies manage procurement, budgeting, assets and finances, in support of the department's Financial Management Business Transformation program, CGI said Wednesday.
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to market a full-search platform designed by Yext to government agencies through the Reston, Virginia-based company's reseller partners as well as the National Association of State Procurement Officials Valuepoint and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contracts.
Xerox has provided a liquid metal 3D printer to Naval Postgraduate School under a cooperative research and development agreement to explore the potential use of such technology in developing systems for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. Students and faculty members at NPS can use the Xerox ElemX additive manufacturing system for hands-on learning and dissertation work, the company said Wednesday.
Ben Kassel and Bruce Kaplan of LMI wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on C4ISRNET that the Department of Defense should pursue the implementation of its digital engineering strategy by advancing the availability of model-based technical data in policy.
Zscaler has been prioritized by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program's Joint Authorization Board to pursue high-impact level certification for a network security technology offering to handle sensitive and unclassified government data in cloud environments.
