Government Technology
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.
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SpaceX Launches 60 Satellites for New Global Internet Service
SpaceX has lifted off an initial wave of 60 small satellites that would provide internet connectivity for customers worldwide, Reuters reported Friday. The 500-pound satellites will beam signals as part of the Starlink constellation for the internet service of the same name. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted the satellites Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to orbit.
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Leidos Brings AI to Big Data Analytics Through New Tool
Leidos has developed an artificial intelligence-based analytics tool that works to help users analyze big data from multiple sources, including social media, software and systems, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday.
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ODNI Seeks Info on Tech Capabilities Under Intelligence Science & Technology Partnership Program
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has posted a request for information to seek concepts and technologies that will help ODNI support strategic initiatives within the intelligence community. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says ODNI is looking for capabilities in various areas including artificial intelligence, behavioral science, forensics, computing, energy, space and sensors in support of strategic programs such as acquisition agility; use of machines to augment intelligence; data management; comprehensive cyber posture; and agile workforce.
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Collins Aerospace GPS Module Gets USAF Security Certification
The U.S. Air Force has granted security certification to a Collins Aerospace-developed navigation receiver technology with anti-spoofing and anti-jamming features. Collins Aerospace said Wednesday its Common GPS Module demonstrated compliance with the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's security design specification for hardware and software platforms.
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HawkEye 360, Windward Collaborate on Maritime Domain Awareness Platform
HawkEye 360 will provide a radio frequency dataset to analytics firm Windward to help law enforcement groups, financial organizations and maritime insurers enhance their maritime domain awareness.
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Blue Prism, Project Hosts Partner to Offer Agencies Digital Workforce Platform as Cloud Service
Blue Prism and Project Hosts have partnered to offer government agencies a digital workforce technology designed to automate transactions in a cloud computing environment.
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Lockheed, Air Force Put ‘Space Fence’ Radar Through Debris Detection Test
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have conducted an endurance exercise to test the capability of a new surveillance radar to detect space debris. The Space Fence radar system released a “breakup alert†after it detected a large amount of debris fields from an anti-satellite test carried out by India to destroy the Microsat-R satellite at approximately 300 kilometers, Lockheed said Wednesday.
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General Dynamics to Integrate Encryptor With Cubic Networking Module; Brian Morrison Quoted
General Dynamics' mission systems business plans to equip a networking module stack offering from Cubic's mission solutions unit with an encryption technology to help military customers address secure data during missions. The partnership will incorporate TACLANE-Nano Type 1 encryptor into DTECH M3X network modules to help warfighters protect communications up to Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information classification levels.
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PSC Foundation Report Looks at State of Federal AI Adoption; AFS’ Dominic Delmolino Quoted
The Professional Services Council Foundation has issued a report that assesses the federal government’s adoption of artificial intelligence and identifies the opportunities and challenges agencies face when it comes to AI implementation. The report highlighted opportunities that AI offers to the government including reduction in backlog; optimization of resource allocation; accelerated decision making; fraud prevention; and extraction of insights from large amounts of data.
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Air Force Eyes AI for Teaming Fighter Jets With Drones; Will Roper Quoted
The U.S. Air Force has begun to assess whether it can integrate an artificial intelligence platform, Skyborg, into an F-35 or F-15EX fighter aircraft to enable pilots to control the Kratos Defense-built XQ-58 Valkyrie unmanned air vehicle and other drones, Defense News reported Wednesday. Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, told the publication Tuesday that the service is in talks with Lockheed Martin and Boeing on the plan to team fighter aircraft with drones through the Skyborg program.