Processing....
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.
Spatial Integrated Systems will continue efforts to develop a heterogeneous swarm of unmanned surface vehices in partnership with the Office of Naval Research. The company said Monday it aims to demonstrate small and very small USVs in the eight-unit swarm through the program.
Industry executives have warned that the growing interest of satellite operators on software-defined satellites that can be reprogrammed on orbit also increases their vulnerability to cyber threats, SpaceNews reported Monday.
Microsoft has introduced an open-source platform designed to make elections more secure and allow voters to privately track their votes. ElectionGuard is a free software development kit under the company’s Defending Democracy Program meant to enable third-party organizations and voters to validate election results, Tom Burt, corporate vice president for customer security and trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Monday.
ManTech International has launched a portable technology platform designed to allow tactical warfighters to process and analyze intelligence data in real time, C4ISRNET reported Monday. The company’s Secure Tactical Edge Platform is a “cloud-in-a-box†system that works to accelerate the decision-making process for service personnel through real-time data collection and analysis.
The Maxar and Thales Alenia Space Consortium has advanced its detailed and low-risk designs for Telesat’s LEO system, including system optimization, engineering trade-offs, requirements development and technology prototyping to establish compelling and mature designs for Telesat LEO’s space, ground and user terminal segments, Maxar announced on Monday.
BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin have supplied the U.S. Air Force with long-range anti-ship missiles for the B-1B bomber aircraft, which reached early operational capability ahead of schedule.
AI SpaceFactory, a New York-based architectural and technology design company, won a NASA competition focused on the development of space habitation structures using advanced manufacturing technology.
Frank Strickland, managing director at Deloitte Consulting, told Government Matters in a video interview posted Thursday that there are several challenges military decision-makers should consider as they look to use artificial intelligence to build up readiness and one is asking the right questions.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is conducting market research to determine a possible approach to update information technology applications essential for the agency mission.
Lockheed Martin aims to increase the F-35 fighter jet’s air-to-air firepower with a newly-built weapons rack designed to increase payload capacity to six missiles, Popular Mechanics reported Friday.Â
John Osborne, chief OpenShift architect for public sector at Red Hat, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that there are three approaches government agencies can implement to speed up and facilitate their migration to hybrid cloud and one is through the development of a “single repository of truth.†“This repository will store not only application code and dependencies, but anything that is needed to build an environment from version control,†Osborne noted.
