Government Technology

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

Carahsoft Technology has partnered with Rockville, Maryland-headquartered ClearInfo to give public sector customers access to the latter’s cloud-based unstructured data management platform. ClearInfo’s Data Assembly Service offering is hosted on the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) platform and is designed to connect and align an organization’s structured and unstructured data to enhance visibility, control, accessibility […] More

Nokia and Hill Air Force Base in Utah have extended their partnership on a testbed designed to mitigate and manage radar interference with 5G networks using Open Radio Access Network architecture. “We initially partnered with Hill Air Force Base on a testbed for dynamic spectrum sharing, and this extension of our agreement with Hill Air […] More

The U.S. Army has received a new mobile rocket launcher system developed by Lockheed Martin to equip next generation rockets and missiles for long-range firing operations. The M270A2 Multiple Launch Rocket System is the latest configuration of the M270 launcher that features new engines, enhanced armored cabs and a common fire control system, and is […] More

Several U.S. companies have secured grants collectively amounting to $137 million from the Department of Energy to research and develop clean energy technologies and instruments under the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. The awardees will conduct phase II R&D work to help DOE innovate technologies in support of its mission areas, the […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has launched a $100 million venture capital arm to speed up the development and deployment of commercial technologies designed to support the missions of federal agency clients. Booz Allen Ventures will invest in startups that are developing technologies in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning, defense, deep technology and cybersecurity, […] More