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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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 Albers Group and Sodius have partnered with the goal to help defense and aerospace organizations implement a model-based engineering approach by combining systems and unified modeling languages.
A team of General Atomics professionals and participating institutions has concluded an 11-month modernization project at a Department of Energy laboratory for energy and nuclear fusion studies.
Boeing has unveiled conceptual images of a variant of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, FlightGlobal reported Friday. Compound Apache will have a small wing, pusher propeller and a tail rotor as well as feature increased aircraft speed and range, the company noted.
ECS has been granted Managed Service Provider status a fifth time by Amazon Web Services after it continued to meet stringent technical and operational requirements. The company said Thursday it proved its capacity to assist customers in all stages of the cloud adoption process during the annual third-party audit process.
NASA has awarded contracts worth $45.5M combined to study and develop human lander prototypes in the next six months in support of its Artemis lunar exploration initiative. The space agency said Friday the companies will produce prototypes of a human landing platform with descent, ascent, transfer and refueling elements and shoulder at least 20 percent of the total development cost under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships Appendix E contracts.
AT&T and Mutualink have entered into an agreement to facilitate communications interoperability for first responders and other public safety personnel. AT&T said Thursday it will add Mutualink’s Interoperable Response and Preparedness Platform to the FirstNet public safety broadband network under the partnership to help users accelerate sharing of data, voice and video across systems.
A Leonardo-built active expendable decoy has been chosen by the Department of Defense to conduct foreign comparison tests with the U.S. Air National Guard, AIN Online reported Monday.
Ultra Electronics 3eTI and Poly have partnered to introduce video teleconferencing systems designed to help federal customers automatically switch across different security classification networks. Ultra Electronics 3eTI said Monday its Criticom Integrated Secure Encryption Console works with Poly's RealPresence platform to manage video communications that involve sensitive mission data.
The U.S. Air Force and the Defense Logistics Agency's energy office have issued a request for information to look for inputs on the management and procurement of energy at an Air Force installation.
KULR Technology Group will supply Lockheed Martin with a thermal management technology designed to absorb or release heat from phase changes. KULR said Tuesday its phase change material heat sink uses a carbon fiber core to passively conduct heat and control temperature.
Tim Malia, director of future vertical lift-light at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary, told The War Zone in an interview published Wednesday about the X2 helicopter technology and its potential role in the development of FVL aircraft. “The term X2 technology refers to a suite of technologies developed by Sikorsky that enable the X2 aircraft to operate at high speed while improving operational capability, maneuverability, agility, survivability, and lethality at the landing zone,†Malia said.
The U.S. Army has issued a request for proposals for novel platforms designed to meet the service’s requirements for the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor program. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the service will use the other transaction authority for the rapid prototyping initiative to award a three-year, firm-fixed-price contract to a single offeror in the fourth quarter of 2019.
