Government Technology

Northrop Grumman will continue to evaluate its stand-in attack weapon missile offering using digital engineering capabilities under a three-month contract with the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday its missile design for the SiAW program comes with open architecture to facilitate future upgrades and is expected to launch later in 2022. Northrop, Lockheed Martin […] More

Cubic has received certification to offer the M3-SE and M3X server products for Department of Defense use in local network infrastructure after the company passed cybersecurity and interoperability tests. The company said Wednesday its servers are included on the DoD Information Network Approved Products List and cleared to support internet protocol switching services for the […] More

Northrop Grumman has received a potential $2 billion contract from United Launch Alliance to ramp up production of Graphite Epoxy Motor and extended length variation solid rocket boosters for ULA’s Atlas and Vulcan Centaur launch vehicles. The multiyear contract with ULA will also allow Northrop to modernize and expand tooling and existing facilities, Northrop said […] More

Parsons has opened an Aberdeen, Maryland-based innovation laboratory that is envisioned to facilitate rapid research, development and integration of operational technology in support of its defense, intelligence and federal civilian customers. The new Paladin Lab located within the Aberdeen Proving Ground includes unclassified tech integration and demonstration space and features hybrid cloud, network and compute […] More

A new Federal Trade Commission analysis has found that consumers said they lost more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency to fraud between January 2021 and March 2022. FTC said Friday bogus investment opportunities have accounted for $575 million of all reported fraud losses involving cryptocurrencies since 2021. After investment scams, romance scams represented $185 million […] More

Venus Aerospace, an early-stage, deep technology company, has showcased its first conceptual hypersonic vehicle design envisioned to achieve one-hour global travel at Mach 9 speed. The Houston, Texas-based hypersonic aircraft developer said Tuesday its vehicle engineering team is working on Stargazer, a Mach 9 hypersonic spaceplane whose concept was unveiled during a transportation- and mobility-focused […] More

Inmarsat and Honeywell have introduced a new satellite communications service for government and business airborne users. SwiftJet is backed by Inmarsat’s ELERA satellite network and is set to become commercially available in the first half of 2023 to deliver inflight connectivity over L-band, Inmarsat said Monday. SwiftJet uses Honeywell-built hardware that can be installed on […] More

BAE Systems has moved to increase the level of GPS jamming protection for aircraft operating in contested environments by broadening the beamforming capabilities of its Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receiver. The company said Monday it enabled beamforming with Trimble receivers to expand its DIGAR system’s capabilities.  BAE engineers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, developed software to broaden […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ missiles and defense business has expanded its GhostEye family of radars with the addition of a variant designed for medium‐range air defense operations. The new GhostEye MR radar is developed by Raytheon Missiles & Defense in collaboration with Kongsberg Gruppen’s defense and aerospace unit and is available for integration with the National Advanced […] More

Boeing and NATO launched a three-month innovation challenge that allowed participants from universities in the Netherlands to propose concepts for autonomous systems designed to help the alliance improve situational awareness and address other pressing needs. “Project X sets a benchmark for new and creative ways to engage academia and industry and help Allies develop and […] More

A new report by LexisNexis Risk Solutions and the Identity Theft Resource Center has found that 42 percent of individuals who applied for pandemic-related benefits said they were victims of identity fraud that resulted in them either being denied benefits or being recipients of benefits they had not applied for. ITRC and LexisNexis Risk Solutions […] More