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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.
L3Harris Technologies is working on an experimental satellite that could help deliver advanced position, navigation and timing capabilities to warfighters under an $84M contract with the U.S. Air Force, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday.
Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications and a 2019 Wash100 award recipient, told Bloomberg in an audio interview posted Tuesday about the company’s use of SpaceX-built rockets and the role of the private sector in space exploration. He said SpaceX and other launch service providers have helped drive down the cost for a lot of satellite suppliers.
NASA has unveiled to the media the rover unit that will be fielded for the agency’s Mars exploration mission in 2020.
NVIDIA has developed a synthetic environment that deploys virtual sensor data to help train driverless cars, C4ISRnet reported Saturday.
Embraer has completed an airdrop testing campaign for its KC-390 Millennium multimission medium airlifter. The company said Thursday it worked with Brazil’s air force and army to carry out a series of tests at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground facilities in Arizona.
Robert Schofield, director of enterprise solutions at NetCentrics, wrote in a Federal News Network commentary piece published Friday about the four questions information technology and security team leaders at federal agencies should expect and consider answering when it comes to implementing security orchestration.
A MarketsandMarkets forecast, released by Reportlinker, said the global market for instrusion detection and prevention systems will see an 8.3 percent compound annual growth rate to reach $7.1B in value by 2024.
The Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center asked industry to provide information on the potential of AI technology to accelerate drone swarm deployment to search-and-rescue missions, Nextgov reported Thursday.
The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to provide information on technical concepts and approaches that might be used to automatically identify, map and perform security analysis of base control systems.
Boeing has created a new communication satellite technology in an effort to increase the bandwidth and signal performance of the U.S. Air Force-operated Wideband Global Satcom System. WGS-11 is a variant of the company's 702 satellite and is designed to transmit multiple coverage beams that would follow flying aircraft, Boeing said Thursday.
Robotic Research has secured a $16.5M contract for boot-mounted trackers that the U.S. Army intends to use for situational awareness in GPS-denied locations, Defense News reported Wednesday.
Resolvn, a Maryland-based startup, has agreed to help the U.S. Navy construct a set of virtual networks for cyber operations training, National Defense Magazine reported Monday.
