Government Technology

Apogee Engineering has established a new facility in Dayton, Ohio, to collaborate with the government and academic sectors in leveraging advanced technologies to tackle U.S. defense and national security challenges. The facility will feature an acquisition transformation center and facilitate science and technology development and cyber and artificial training, the Colorado-based company said Thursday. Company CEO […] More

Leidos has completed conceptual design and system requirements reviews for the Mayhem program, marking another milestone in the development of an air-breathing hypersonic system for the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said Tuesday the reviews were carried out within a digital engineering environment and demonstrated the use of a system design agent construct that […] More

The Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Air Force have selected four companies to build and demonstrate an unmanned aerial vehicle prototype that will serve as a foundation for low-cost, high-rate production and deployment of new drone technologies across the Department of Defense. DIU said Monday that Anduril Industries, Integrated Solutions for Systems, Leidos‘ Dynetics […] More

Gary Hix, chief technology officer at Hitachi Vantara Federal, said the exponential growth of data will prompt federal agencies and their partners to advance efforts to decarbonize data center infrastructures and implement sustainable strategies to meet climate goals while promoting digital diplomacy and cross-border collaboration. In a commentary published Monday in Nextgov/FCW, Hix wrote that […] More

The U.S. Space Force has selected Wallaroo.AI for inclusion in Cohort 3 of the Space Domain Awareness TAP Lab Apollo Accelerator program. The company said Thursday it will leverage its artificial intelligence architecture to build AI and machine learning models and other tech platforms designed to improve SDA-related use cases. The SDA TAP Lab Apollo […] More

Lockheed Martin has opened a 122,000-square-foot engineering facility in Huntsville, Alabama, to drive innovation and advance the development of national security capabilities. The new facility expands Lockheed’s footprint in the state to 30 work sites and can accommodate 500 employees, the company said Thursday. The $18 million facility will support readiness and sustainment work on […] More

Capgemini Government Solutions will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on a project aimed at exploring the use of quantum computing in carbon capture as part of DARPA’s Advanced Research Concept initiative. Under DARPA’s ARC topic IMPAQT, which stands for Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow, the company said Wednesday it will […] More

Motorola Solutions‘ on-premise video security suite, Avigilon Unity, has been added to the Department of Defense Information Network Approved Products List. The company said Thursday the DoDIN APL certification facilitates the suite’s streamlined procurement and deployment across global agencies. Avigilon Unity is a network of cameras, software and network video recorders adaptable for Federal Information Processing […] More

VLogic Systems has received an authority to operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based facility management software and advanced internet of things-based technology offerings. The Massachusetts-based company said Wednesday the Department of Veterans Affairs-sponsored ATO designation positions it to be an approved provider for federal agencies on the FedRAMP Marketplace. The […] More

NASA transmitted data from space to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California using a CACI International-built optical communications terminal on the Psyche spacecraft that was deployed as part of the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment. CACI said Thursday the space agency sent the space-based data to JPL at a distance of more than 200 kilometers […] More