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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.
Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has proposed conditional approval for Amazon's plan to launch more than 3K broadband satellites in non-geostationary orbit, GeekWire reported Friday. "Satellite constellations like this aim to provide high-speed broadband service to consumers in the U.S. and around the world," Pai said in a tweet.
David Watts, chief digital adviser for the public sector at World Wide Technology, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that government agencies should implement a data-driven culture and leverage data analytics to accelerate their digital transformation efforts.
MAK Technologies, a subsidiary of ST Engineering North America, has released a new version of its product suite that works to help users create synthetic training environments. The updated MAK ONE platform includes virtual reality-based modeling, simulation and visualization tools.
Reggie Brothers, CEO of NuWave Solutions, said the company primarily focuses on intelligence and defense markets with plans to expand its artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and data management work in federal civilian and commercial sectors.
A consortium launched in March to advance research into the novel coronavirus using supercomputers has approved 78 COVID-19 research proposals and has been running 68 projects as of July 1, Nextgov reported Wednesday.
Sagewind Capital has made an investment in QuantiTech, a Huntsville, Ala.-based provider of technical engineering and management services to defense and federal agencies.
Descartes Labs has been awarded an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct to Phase II contract on Wednesday through AFWERX and the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate and Information Directorate to optimize data discovery of collected sensor data and the automation of multi-modal analytical processes.Â
George Kamis, chief technology officer for government markets at Forcepoint, wrote in a Nextgov article published Tuesday that using unclassified resources and cross-domain platforms to develop code for deployment in classified environments could bring tangible benefits to the Department of Defense.
Sayari Labs, a Washington, D.C.-based developer of financial intelligence platforms, has added $2.5M to its round of Series B financing after it secured investments from In-Q-Tel, TFX Capital and MissionOG.
NASA has drafted a request for proposals to determine potential commercial sources of a launch service offering for small satellites known as CubeSats. The space agency said in a draft RFP notice posted Thursday it will accept input from prospective offerors for the Venture Class Launch Service Demo 2 effort through July 14.
Jennifer Chronis, general manager for the Department of Defense market at Amazon Web Services, told SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE in a video interview posted Tuesday that the migration of the U.S. Navy’s enterprise resource planning system to AWS GovCloud has enabled the service to facilitate analytics and improve the decision-making process.
