Government Technology
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.
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Tech Companies Work With Agencies to Ensure Election Security
Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook announced that they have expanded their group with the addition of new partners and met with representatives from the Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the FBI to discuss efforts to protect the upcoming presidential elections from disinformation campaigns and foreign interference, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
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Pradman Kaul: Hughes Sees OneWeb Investment as Opportunity to Compete for FCC’s Broadband Subsidies
Pradman Kaul, president of Hughes Network Systems, said the company believes its investment in satellite company OneWeb has paved the way for Hughes to offer low-Earth orbit broadband connectivity to compete for the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.
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Travis Hartman: Maxar-AWS Partnership Helps NOAA Build Cloud-Based Computing Tech
Maxar Technologies collaborated with Amazon Web Services to build a cloud-based computing technology designed to accelerate processing of global weather data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SiliconANGLE reported Tuesday. “We knew NOAA had capabilities of weather prediction models in traditional on-premises, big beefy high-performance supercomputers, but we wanted to do it in the cloud; we wanted to use AWS as a key partner,†said Travis Hartman, director of analytics and weather at Maxar.
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SAIC’s Mark Forman: Data Analytics, Other Digital Transformation Tools Could Help Agencies Manage Supply Chains
Mark Forman, vice president of digital government strategy at Science Applications International Corp., said that government agencies should adopt digital transformation techniques and tools to scale supply chains in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other future crises.
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Pyramid Systems Marks 25-Year Anniversary; Sherry Hwang Quoted
Fairfax, Va.-based Pyramid Systems has marked its 25th anniversary of doing business as a technology services provider to the government sector.
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Johns Hopkins APL to Host DARPA’s AI Virtual Air Combat Finals
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will live-stream an online event from Aug. 18 to 20 for the third and final round of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency competition that will showcase artificial intelligence algorithms in a simulated aerial combat environment.
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CDC Seeks Social Media Monitoring Web Service
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention facility is seeking information on the availability of a web service that combines artificial intelligence and thematic analysis to understand sentiment in certain digital conversations across social networks.
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DOE, NOAA OK Northrop-Seatrec Team’s UUV Data Station for Dev’t; Alan Lytle Quoted
A data transmission concept developed by a team comprised of Northrop Grumman and Monrovia, Calif,-based company Seatrec has been chosen for the next phase of a competition focused on renewable energy-based ocean observation technologies.
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Northrop’s HALO Module for NASA Lunar Gateway to Launch With Maxar’s PPE
Northrop Grumman has unveiled plans for the central module of NASA’s Lunar Gateway, including the module’s planned launch with Maxar Technologies’ Power and Propulsion Element from a spaceport in Florida by 2023, the NASASpaceflight website reported Friday.