Government Technology

Raytheon has received an $11.5M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide research and development services as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Millimeter-Wave Digital Arrays program. Raytheon will develop digital tile architectures as well as integrated and scalable apertures equipped with transmit-and-receive features to support the MIDAS initiative’s array technology […] More

Kansas City, Mo., has started to evaluate technology proposals for the second phase of a public-private initiative to modernize the system for public service delivery, Fierce Wireless reported Monday. The city noted in its request for proposal it will procure program management services and financing concepts that can support revenue generating models intended to reduce […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched the second phase of a potential five-year, $1.5B program that aims to advance microelectronics innovation through new microsystem designs, materials and architectures. DARPA said Thursday the Electronics Resurgence Initiative’s Phase II seeks to address the need to support domestic production options to advance capability development for diverse needs; […] More

An experimentation group within the Air Force Research Laboratory is requesting for industry input on high energy laser and high power microwave technologies. The AFRL’s Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Group intends to use these technologies for strike and defense applications against surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles, the U.S. Air Force said Oct. 25 in a […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is accepting proposals for a new program aimed at developing a system that can visualize agricultural field outlines from satellite sources. The Agricultural Delineation contest tasks industry to contribute ideas for a remote sensing platform that utilizes satellite imagery to outline large homogenous and heterogeneous fields that are prominent in the […] More

VMware plans to build a microgrid at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., and test the system’s potential to generate renewable energy for the public and private sectors. The project will aim to provide necessary resources to facilitate emergency response operations in the area in the event of a power and fuel shortage, VMware said Thursday. […] More

Siemens Government Technologies will resume its energy conservation and infrastructure modernization work at two of the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center’s facilities under two separate contracts worth a total of $60.8M. The company said Tuesday it will help the Corpus Christi Army Depot in Texas to modernize its balancing test stands for the rotor […] More

SAP National Security Service is integrating Drone Aviation Holding‘s drone-based video footage application into the former’s portfolio of cloud-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies. The video technology integrates with SAP NS2’s machine learning application to generate real-time data analyses for security missions, Drone Aviation said Tuesday. SAP NS2’s seventh annual solutions summit will feature drone-based video […] More

Lockheed Martin will extend its development work on a low power laser demonstrator missile interceptor concept for an autonomous aerial system under a potential nine-month, $25.5M contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency. Sarah Reeves, vice president for missile defense programs at Lockheed Martin Space, said in a statement published Tuesday that the company will […] More

Textron’s Bell subsidiary has conducted a flight demonstration of its proposed offering for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program, the Dallas Morning News reported Friday. The pilots flew the V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft on Thursday at Bell’s flight research center in Arlington, Va., 10 months after the plane made its initial flight at the company’s Amarillo, Texas-based […] More

The U.S. Navy and the Missile Defense Agency have tested the interception performance of the Raytheon-made Standard Missile-3‘s Block-IIA variant with a land-launched target. The Navy’s USS John Finn destroyer launched the SM-3 IIA missile to intercept the ballistic target during the test in Hawaii, marking the missile’s second fulfilled interception, Raytheon said Friday. “This second […] More

Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, has said the company believes the U.S. military needs access to industry-developed technologies as it works to defend the country from threats. Smith wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that the tech sector’s involvement in public debate is vital with regard to policy and ethical issues […] More