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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Elbit Systems’ US Subsidiary Adds Ground Sensor Data to Border Patrol C2 Tech
Elbit Systems of America has incorporated data from Sintela-built linear ground detection systems into the U.S. Border Patrol's TORCH command and control platform.
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Navy Requests Info on Proprietary Waveform Tech Capabilities
The U.S. Navy has asked industry to provide information on proprietary low probability of intercept and low probability of detection waveforms and other capabilities that may be considered for future contracts, Inside Defense reported Monday.
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SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni: Pandemic Highlights Need for Gov’t, Industry to Rethink Classified Work Practices
Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, wrote in an article published Monday on FedScoop that the COVID-19 pandemic should serve as a wake-up call for the government and industry to reassess how they manage classified information and work to support national security missions.
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Raytheon Technologies Conducts Flight Test of Navy NGJ-MB; Annabel Flores Quoted
Raytheon Technologies has announced that the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB), built by Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S), flew on an EA-18G Growler, marking the first flight test on the aircraft, the company announced Monday.Â
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PredaSAR Completes CDR & Begins Testing of SAR Spacecraft; Mike Moran, Eric Truitt Quoted
PredaSAR has completed the critical design review of its synthetic aperture radar spacecraft and is set to begin fabrication, testing and launch of the vehicle, the company announced Monday.
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Reaction Engines, Rolls-Royce Forge Aircraft Propulsion Tech Dev’t Partnership; Mark Thomas Quoted
Rolls-Royce and Reaction Engines have agreed to team up to build high-speed aircraft propulsion platforms and explore the use of Reaction Engines’ thermal management technologies in hybrid-electric systems and gas turbine engines for defense and civil aerospace platforms.
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Q&A With David Egts of Red Hat About COVID-19 Impact, Gov’t Tech Initiatives, Open Source
David Egts, director and chief technologist of the Red Hat's North American public sector, recently took part in a recent Q&A session with ExecutiveBiz. Egts will be featured as a panelist during Potomac Officers Club’s Secure IT Modernization in Today’s Environment Virtual Event on August 26th. Click here to register for the virtual event.Â
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Carahsoft to Help Distribute HashiCorp Cloud Offerings in Gov’t Market; Natalie Gregory Quoted
HashiCorp has partnered with Carahsoft Technology to market a suite of technology products built to automate provisioning and management of cloud computing infrastructure in the public sector through the latter's government contracts.
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Heron Systems-Built AI Emerges Undefeated Against Fighter Pilot in DARPA’s Virtual Dogfight
A Heron Systems-developed artificial intelligence ‘pilot’ on an F-16 Viper jet came out undefeated against a human Air Force fighter pilot in five rounds of simulated air combat as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AlphaDogfight Trials.
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NASA Receives Full-Scale Mockup of Blue Origin-Led National Team’s Human Landing System
A Blue Origin-led team has handed over to NASA an engineering mockup of a human landing system that could bring astronauts to the lunar surface. Blue Origin was one of the three prime contractors tapped by NASA in late April to develop a landing platform in support of the agency’s Artemis moon mission in 2024 and the company said Thursday that it works with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper as part of the HLS National Team.