Government Technology

Red Hat has partnered with stackArmor to use the latter’s offering to speed up the process of achieving authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud service on Amazon Web Services. “We are pleased to collaborate with stackArmor to help us accelerate the FedRAMP ATO for Red Hat OpenShift […] More

A survey of federal chief information officers and information technology leaders conducted by the Professional Services Council and Maximus has found that many agencies intend to shift from manual operations to business processes driven by automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The 2021 Federal CIO Survey report showed that agency officials highlighted the need for […] More

The Department of Commerce is soliciting information to inform the planning and development of potential programs meant to strengthen the U.S. semiconductor industry. The agency wants feedback on a potential financial assistance program that would offer funding to private companies or public-private consortia via a competitive process as part of efforts to incentivize the expansion, […] More

The U.S. Navy transitioned the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout ship-based unmanned helicopter to the operational deployment phase in mid-December. MQ-8C Fire Scout provided the service with improved intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting capabilities when fielded with the Navy’s Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22, Detachment 5 aboard the USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) Freedom-class littoral combat ship, […] More

Siemens has secured a multiyear deal to provide Lockheed Martin a suite of software products and services to support the latter’s digital engineering strategy. Lockheed’s aeronautics segment will implement the Xcelerator platform in efforts to accelerate program life cycles and drive innovation pursuits surrounding digital transformation, Siemens said Tuesday. Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of […] More

Transportation agencies in a dozen U.S. states have implemented an Inrix analytics platform to manage traffic signal operations along road intersections and corridors. Inrix said Friday cloud-based Signal Analytics technology provides state government users key metrics such as control delays, turn ratios and travel times using vehicle data for traffic management, engineering, operations and maintenance. […] More

United Launch Alliance sent to space two U.S. Space Force situational awareness satellites using its Atlas V rocket on Friday. The USSF-8 mission lifted GSSAP-5 and GSSAP-6 satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to a near-geosynchronous orbit under the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program, ULA said the same day as the launch. The two […] More