SpaceX Sends Classified NRO Satellite Into Orbit
SpaceX has brought a classified satellite from the National Reconnaissance Office into orbit via the company's Falcon 9 rocket, CBS News reported Saturday.
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General Motors Unit Starts Renovation of ISV Production Facility
General Motors' defense arm has begun renovating one of its facilities to support manufacturing activities for a light and agile all-terrain troop carrier for the U.S. Army.
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Rave Emergency Comms Product Gets FedRAMP Approval
Rave Mobile Safety's emergency communications platform has been certified for government use under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.
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Forcepoint’s Nicolas Fischbach: User Activity Monitoring Could Help Agencies Protect Data
Nicolas Fischbach, global chief technology officer at Forcepoint, wrote in a guest piece published Friday on Nextgov that government agencies should prioritize data visibility and data loss prevention as they head into 2021. He said agencies should determine how employees and other users interact with government data through user activity monitoring with the aid of behavioral analytics to better detect compromised accounts and malicious actors.
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IBM-Salesforce Partnership Seeks to Provide Single Platform for Health Status Verification
IBM and Salesforce have teamed up to help government agencies, businesses and schools verify an individual’s health and vaccine status to enable them to safely reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The partnership will facilitate the integration of IBM Digital Health Pass with the Salesforce Work.com platform to provide organizations with a single tool for making data-driven decisions as they work to streamline communications, initiate actions and reduce risks.
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AWS Offers File System Service to GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Web Services has made its FSx service available in GovCloud (US) regions to allow educational institutions, nonprofit organizations and government customers to use the offering to launch and run highly performant file systems for streamlined operations and cost savings.
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Raytheon Technologies Unveils Software-Based Satellite Constellation Mgmt Tech
Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has started the development of a software-based system designed to manage multiple satellite constellations untethered to any asset.
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Lockheed VP Lisa Callahan: Lunar Lander Work With Blue Origin in Progress
Lisa Callahan, vice president and general manager of commercial civil space at Lockheed Martin, has provided an update on the company's partnership with Blue Origin for the development of a new system that would help astronauts land on the lunar surface, TechCrunch reported Friday.
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Defense Companies Announce Participation in Upcoming Army Mobile Howitzer Shoot-Off
The U.S. Army is set to hold a mobile 155mm howitzer shoot-off at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona in early 2021 and companies are announcing their selection to participate in the event while others are expressing interest to take part in the activity, Defense News reported Thursday.
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Tory Bruno: ULA’s Vulcan Centaur Ready for Debut Flight in Late 2021
Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance and a previous Wash100 awardee, said ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket will be on the launch pad for its maiden flight by the end of 2021, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
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Microsoft’s Brad Smith: National, Global Cyber Strategy Needed to Address Nation-State Attacks
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, has urged the U.S. public sector and technology industry to work together on coordinating a multipronged cybersecurity strategy in the wake of a SolarWinds network management software breach that hit several federal departments, private companies and non-governmental organizations.
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Directed Energy Tech Startup Epirus Earns $70M in Funding Round
Epirus, a Los Angeles-based developer of high-powered microwave technology for defense and commercial applications, has raised $70M in a Series B fundraising round led by Bedrock Capital. The new capital will fund production of SmartPower, an Epirus technology designed to facilitate HPM transmission with the use of gallium nitride semiconductors.