Government Technology

Inmarsat is seeking to meet increased U.S. military and commercial demand for more bandwidth in the Middle East and Europe with its Global Xpress 5 communications satellite, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “GX5, adding to that mix, looks at an area where we’ve got increased and significant demand. It is a very, very dense environment for commercial as well as military," said Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government.

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IBM’s research arm is working to develop a new battery that will not require heavy metals for production and support energy infrastructure sustainability.

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Red Hat will be collaborating with Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Boston University to develop a testbed for new cloud computing technologies.

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The Defense Information Systems Agency has authorized Oracle to operate at Impact Level 5 across the government cloud regions of Chicago, Phoenix and Ashburn, Va.

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A Noblis-developed autonomous operations concept has received recognition at a recent Los Angeles-based blockchain competition.

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Honeywell has collaborated with iTRACE and SecureMarking to optimize security capacities for aerospace components through blockchain and two-factor authentication technologies.

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United Launch Alliance is preparing to test-fly a Boeing-made spacecraft designed for crewed space transport.

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Northrop Grumman recently assisted the U.S. Air Force and the Strategic Capabilities Office in carrying out the flight demonstration of a prototype ground-launched ballistic missile at Vanderberg Air Force Base in California.

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Nonprofit technology community Internet2 has tapped CenturyLink to incorporate the latter’s low-loss fiber network service in support of modernization efforts for a research and education network.

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Textron’s Bell subsidiary plans to use a Pratt & Whitney-built helicopter engine as auxiliary power unit for its proposed helicopter design for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program, Vertical Magazine reported Tuesday.

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More than 300 government officials from 40 countries joined the three-day Amazon Web Services Government Delegation Program at re:Invent in Las Vegas to discuss the barriers to digital transformation and ways to address such challenges.

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A Lockheed Martin-led team has concluded acceptance trials of a new Freedom-variant littoral combat ship.

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