Government Technology

Private technology company Dataminr seeks to drive the adoption of its product through the launch of its global partner ecosystem with several technology companies including Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Dataminr Partner Program is also aimed at integrating alerts into workflows more seamlessly through Dataminr’s artificial intelligence platform, the company said Thursday. Dataminr will […] More

Howard Porter, corporate director and senior vice president of contracts at CACI International, said the company’s contract management system has become a centralized platform for data that CACI uses to facilitate its decision-making processes, Federal News Network reported Thursday. “Our contract system is really the front-end system for our company,” said Porter. “It feeds our […] More

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Institute for Telecommunication Sciences and the Department of Defense have named the final contestants of the preliminary event of a multi-stage 5G Challenge prize competition. The first-year 5G Challenge Preliminary Event focused on Radio Access Network subsystem interoperability and called for technologies to support the network’s distributed unit, centralized […] More

General Atomics has won computational time on a pair of supercomputer machines through a Department of Energy-sponsored allocation program that will help the company perform fusion energy simulations. The company said Wednesday its team of scientists will have access to two high-performance computing systems located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California and the […] More

Carahsoft Technology and Paperless Innovations have made a distribution agreement through which the information technology company will offer the latter’s Actus purchase card platform to government customers via multiple contract vehicles with NASA and other organizations. Paperless Innovations said its Actus P-Card Management Automations will now be available to agencies for use on transactional spending […] More

A Raytheon Technologies business has achieved initial operating capability for a modernized beyond line-of-sight communications system meant to provide the U.S. Air Force with secure data sharing technology on the battlefields. The Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal system providing contested environment connectivity is envisioned to support the Nuclear Command, Control and Communications and Joint All […] More

Robert Carey, president of Cloudera‘s government solutions business, said that information technology infrastructure combining on-premise and cloud computing platforms could help agencies unlock the potential of data to inform decision-making for critical missions. “Leveraging data will propel agencies forward by allowing teams to tackle the toughest challenges across the public sector space,” Carey wrote in […] More

Boeing and Nammo, a Norway-based aerospace and defense company, fired a ramjet-powered projectile from a cannon during a test held in late June in Norway. “We believe the Boeing Ramjet 155, with continued technology maturation and testing, can help the U.S. Army meet its long-range precision fires modernization priorities,” Steve Nordlund, vice president and general […] More

Verizon has expanded the next generation public safety communications offerings of its frontline business with the launch of a nearly 30-foot trailer designed to provide first responders with networking capabilities. Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response’s Hammer, or THOR’s Hammer, is equipped with Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband and other network and technology of Verizon Frontline to enable […] More

Lockheed Martin has made progress with its Next Generation Interceptor commitment after verifying the capability of the defense system’s communication technology to function through adverse environments while in flight. The defense and aerospace company completed a prototype testing of the interceptor’s communication radio technology, which can help raise in-flight situation awareness and therefore enable the […] More