Government Technology

BAE Systems has started moving its automated flight planning service to the cloud in line with the transformation objectives of the U.S. Air Force, which employs the system for agile airspace planning and mission management efforts. Migrating the Mobility Air Forces Automated Flight Planning Service to Cloud One is aimed at boosting the operational availability […] More

Carahsoft Technology will provide public sector clients access to Rescale’s cloud-based computational engineering and artificial intelligence platforms through its contract vehicles and reseller partners. Rescale said Thursday its platform has over 900 pre-integrated software applications and helps automate the use of AI in simulations and computational engineering to enable public and private sector customers to […] More

Raanan Horowitz, president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America, said the company is considering acquiring domestic businesses that develop critical technologies, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. He told the publication that Elbit Systems’ U.S. subsidiary is evaluating potential acquisition opportunities as part of expansion efforts and working to update the resolution of its night vision […] More

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s Joint Authorization Board is prioritizing five companies to undergo security reviews of cloud service offerings. Collabware, Deloitte, M.C. Dean, Merlin and PowerTrain are part of the FedRAMP Connect’s new roster that can work with the governing body toward completing the certification process, the program management office said Wednesday. […] More

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Snowflake’s cloud offering to government customers through Amazon Web Services’ digital catalog. Carahsoft said Wednesday the company and its reseller partners will offer the Snowflake Data Cloud to public sector agencies via the AWS Marketplace to accelerate the procurement process and provide unified billing capability to customers. The Snowflake […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected the research teams that will work on a program that seeks to develop an integrable filter technology designed to mitigate interference for wideband active electronically scanned arrays operating in congested environments. The primary focus area of the COmpact Front-end Filters at the ElEment-level program will use emerging […] More

Ensco will showcase its suite of technology offerings designed for military positioning, navigation and timing applications at an upcoming four-day conference in San Diego. The company said Wednesday its PNT platforms are designed to work in limited GPS settings and will be on display at exhibit booth 119 during the Institute of Navigation’s Joint Navigation […] More

In the wake of a worldwide semiconductor chip manufacturing shortage, U.S. government and industry leaders are looking for ways to rapidly ramp up domestic production while prioritizing continued innovation. As a result, academia is playing an increasingly vital role in the country’s microelectronics capabilities. In April 2022, the Department of Defense launched its “microelectronics commons,” […] More

A Series B funding round has brought in $25 million for Indigov, a startup that designed a multichannel communication platform for government officials to engage the public. The company said Thursday it plans to use the new capital to further develop its core product, explore use cases of the offering at all levels of government […] More

Todd Probert, president of national security and innovative solutions at CACI International, said the rapidly evolving threat landscape has pushed the Department of Defense to enter into public-private partnerships, adopt open architecture and develop software-driven capabilities. “Open architecture enables rapid deployment of new capabilities and helps ensure future modernization by emphasizing software over hardware,” Probert, […] More

Jeff Lessner, vice president of defense and intelligence systems division at Hughes Network Systems, said discussions at the recent Satellite 2022 conference highlighted the need for commercial technologies that can improve and deliver resiliency and security within the Department of Defense’s communications system. Lessner wrote in a blog post published Tuesday on Military Embedded Systems […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have launched the world’s first exascale supercomputer designed to accelerate discoveries in areas such as disease diagnosis and prognosis, new materials, drug discovery and renewable energy. The HPE-built Frontier supercomputer reached a performance of 1.1 exaflops, making it the world’s fastest supercomputer based […] More