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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.
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
The U.S. Army has selected CACI International to support the service branch’s Intelligence and Security Command with mission expertise under a potential five-year, $80 million task order. The contract award obligates the CACI team to assist INSCOM and the 116th Military Intelligence Brigade as a function of the Army’s Solutions for Intelligence Analysis 3 initiative by […] 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
BlackSky Technology has secured a $4.4 million phase two award to provide the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity with a machine learning platform created for a multiyear initiative for space-based imagery analysis. The company said Thursday its machine learning operations framework will be used to further support IARPA’s Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique Program, which […] 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
Anduril Industries will establish research and assembly facilities in Atlanta, Georgia, over the next three years to increase development and production of its defense offerings, particularly unmanned systems. The technology manufacturer’s project is a $60 million investment that will foster 180 jobs in Fulton County while boosting support to the U.S. military, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp shared […] More
Panasonic Group‘s energy business plans to invest $4 billion to establish a manufacturing facility in De Soto, Kansas, for rechargeable car batteries and expects to create 4,000 jobs through the potential project. The state government approved an application by the company to receive an Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion incentive to build the lithium-ion electric vehicle […] More
A hypersonic missile system that Lockheed Martin developed as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Operational Fires program completed its initial flight test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The ground-launched OpFires system met all test objectives, including missile canister egress, use of a U.S. Marine Corps logistics truck as a medium-range […] More
Merlin Labs has secured $105 million in a round of Series B financing led by investment management firm Baillie Gifford and Snowpoint Ventures, with the announcement coinciding with the receipt of a U.S. Air Force contract to equip the service branch’s C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft with its autonomous flight technology. The latest round […] More
In the last five years, the Department of Defense has reinvigorated its hypersonic weapons development efforts significantly, moving some of its most promising hypersonic concepts through to the prototyping and testing phase. Now, the Army plans to field its Long Range Hypersonic Weapon by 2023, and the Navy is scheduled to field its Conventional Prompt […] More
