Government Technology

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will expand the workforce of its SRE Birmingham arm and invest in its advanced concepts engineering facility over the next five years to drive business growth. The company said Tuesday it will hire 76 engineers, technicians and support staff to add to its current 140-employee count and further contribute to […] More

A Naval Sea Systems Command-run warfare center in California has partnered with a software development company GBL Systems to explore technology products that have possible applications for the U.S. Navy fleet and warfighter as part of a cooperative research and development agreement. Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division will examine use cases for company-designed […] More

Unison has helped the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation deploy a cloud-based technology platform to simplify the agency’s process for acquiring goods and services. The FDIC chose Unison’s Prism software-as-a-service platform to replace four outdated systems and operate with current enterprise applications as part of a modernization project, the company said Monday. Prism is certified under […] More

A Raytheon Technologies business and the U.S. Air Force fired an updated Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile, dubbed AIM-120D3, from an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet against an aerial target at long range during a live-fire test held on June 30. The AIM-120D3 missile developed under the AMRAAM Form, Fit, Function Refresh program combines F3R […] More

Workday has been cleared under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to sell a cloud-based technology offering designed to help agencies manage human resources and financial functions.  The FedRAMP Moderate certification marks the enterprise management platform vendor’s entry into the federal landscape and signifies its compliance with government cloud security requirements, the company said […] More

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is soliciting input on developing a consolidated platform that is meant to employ a DevSecOps approach to creating artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science technologies. In a call for information notice posted Friday, DTRA said its Digital Battlespace Management Division intends to build a platform for government program information sharing […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works has unveiled a manned-unmanned teaming concept aimed at helping the U.S. Air Force team up its piloted fighters with future autonomous systems, Defense News reported Friday. John Clark, vice president and general manager of Skunk Works, said the company proposes a distributed teaming concept wherein a diverse group of uncrewed systems […] More

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said the service branch is “not all that far away” when it comes to the final downselect process for the sixth-generation fighter aircraft as part of the Next-Generation Air Dominance program, Breaking Defense reported Sunday. “It’s not imminent but it’s not all that far away,” Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award […] More

BAE Systems has performed high-speed wind tunnel testing to demonstrate the ability of an active flow control technology to enhance the performance, maintainability and survivability of military aircraft. The company said Thursday a full-scale, 3D-printed active flow control effector model was put to test at its wind tunnel facilities in Lancashire as part of the […] More

The U.S. Navy has declared a Milestone C decision that allows defense contractor Tactical Air Support to begin reconfiguration work on F-5 tactical fighter planes. Nevada-based Tactical Air will help the Navy’s Specialized and Proven Aircraft Program Office update the F-5E/F airframe and engine into the N/F configuration in support of fleet adversary training requirements, […] More