ULA Changes Date of Next Atlas V Rocket Satellite Launch
United Launch Alliance has moved the schedule of its upcoming Atlas 5 rocket launch to accommodate more efforts to address an unspecified component issue, SpaceFlight Now reported Thursday.
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Vecna Gets DHA Authority to Operate for Patient Check-In Tech
Vecna Technologies has received an authority to operate from the Defense Health Agency to allow military treatment facilities to purchase and integrate the company’s patient check-in tool, which is designed to allow patients to confirm their healthcare appointments, to their networks.
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Exyn Raises $16M in Funding Round to Advance Autonomous Robot Tech Development
Autonomous robot systems developer Exyn Technologies has secured $16M in a round of Series A financing led by Centricus and backed by In-Q-Tel, Yamaha Motors Ventures, Corecam Family Office, IP Group and Red and Blue Ventures.
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Northrop Demos Multi-Domain Mission Tech With USPACOM
Northrop Grumman and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command jointly demonstrated technologies designed to support intelligence, reconnaissance, advanced strike and electronic warfare across air and maritime domains.
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General Atomics Helps Develop Fusion Plasma Cooling Approach at DOE Facility
A multi-institutional team led by General Atomics physicist Houyang Guo has discovered an approach to manage the amount of heat within the interior walls of a tokamak the company operates for the Department of Energy.
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Meroe Park, Dee Helfenstein: New Tech, Acquisition Strategy Essential for Gov’t Missions
Two executives of Booz Allen Hamilton and the Partnership for Public Service said that federal leaders should explore how modern technology such as artificial intelligence and edge computing platforms can help agencies deliver services and address operational challenges.
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AppDynamics’ Sami Begg Suggests Six Measures to Facilitate Federal Cloud Migration
Sami Begg, sales engineering manager for U.S. federal at Cisco’s AppDynamics subsidiary, wrote in a commentary published Thursday on FCW that there are six steps federal agencies can implement as they migrate their applications and workloads to the cloud and the first one is application mapping.
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DISA Issues RFI for AWS Secret Region Cloud Hosting Service Providers
The Defense Information Systems Agency has posted a request for information to seek for potential sources of software instances that will help host components of the agency’s secure cloud framework.
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Scaled Composites to Help Build Prototype of Skyworks’ VertiJet VTOL
Skyworks Global and Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites subsidiary have partnered to develop a prototype of a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, Avionics International reported Wednesday.
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DoD Seeks Proposals on AI-Based Disaster Relief Software Systems
The Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center seeks sources on software platforms that will work to pinpoint infrastructure and people affected by floods through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods, GCN reported Wednesday.
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Chris Bogdan: Booz Allen Targets Ground-Based Portion of Military Space Programs
Chris Bogdan, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, told SpaceNews in an interview published Wednesday that the company is pursuing the ground-based area of military space systems and sees growth opportunities in satellite ground control stations, cybersecurity and data analytics, among other areas.
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Ball Aerospace-Built Astrophysics Observatory Passes Critical Design Review
Ball Aerospace has cleared a critical design review for a small explorer mission that will help NASA measure the polarization of cosmic x-rays in space.