Government Technology

MagniX has added engineering company AeroTEC and Canadian operator Air Tindi to its industry team for a NASA demonstration program aimed at developing and testing commercial electrified propulsion systems. The Everett, Washington-based electric motor manufacturer said Thursday AeroTEC and Air Tindi will help it advance electric flight technologies for commercial aviation under the NASA Electrified […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, through a prize challenge, seeks to provide first responders with unmanned aircraft systems tailored to enhance their indoor search and rescue operations. The First Responder UAS Indoor Challenge requires competitors to design, develop and demonstrate drones capable of assisting firefighters and first responders by increasing their situational awareness, […] More

Boeing has introduced a digitally designed trainer jet that is set for delivery to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it developed and tested the T-7A Red Hawk aircraft using digital engineering, agile software development and advanced manufacturing. The trainer jet, which comes with open architecture software to accommodate future mission requirements, features […] More

David Petraeus, a retired U.S. Army general and former director of the CIA, has made an investment in software as a service company Hypori. Petraeus said in a statement published Wednesday Hypori has developed a zero-trust platform that could enable government agencies and commercial companies to protect critical infrastructure by safeguarding data in transit or […] More

Sev1Tech is looking to strengthen its South Carolina presence with the opening of an expanded facility in Charleston. The information technology company said Thursday the building will be a tool for the delivery of its modernization, cybersecurity and engineering services to both current and future clientele, particularly U.S. Navy customers. Bob Lohfeld, CEO of Sev1Tech, explained […] More

The U.S. Navy is soliciting information on industry capabilities that could support a program meant to develop a clandestine tactical mining platform with an expendable unmanned underwater vehicle that could be torpedo-launched from the service’s submarines to meet future submarine payload requirements. The Mining Expendable Delivery Unmanned Submarine Asset program will include the development of […] More

BAE Systems has partnered with Hadean to identify opportunities where the former’s military training expertise could be applied to the distributed computing company’s unified platform. The collaboration looks to enable warfighters to train on a synthetic environment for air, land, sea, space and cyber operations for enhanced decision support and situational awareness, BAE said Tuesday. […] More