Government Technology

Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar Technologies and a five-time Wash100 Award winner, said the company has come up with 3D maps of the Earth for government and military customers and plans to address the demand for such maps in commercial markets, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “We’re seeing interest from the […] More

John Beieler, director of science and technology at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said the agency wants to share unclassified versions of intelligence community priorities in the S&T area with partners in the commercial and academic sectors, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. “These are the IC’s S&T Strategic Plan, the Strategic Investment Landscape, […] More

Amazon Web Services has made data center-related investments valued at approximately $35 billion in Northern Virginia since 2011 driven by the growing demand for cloud services in public and commercial sectors and Shannon Kellogg, vice president of public policy at Amazon, said AWS will continue to invest in those facilities in the region, the Washington […] More

CAES will establish a new additive manufacturing facility in Exeter, New Hampshire, to house equipment for designing and manufacturing of 3D-printed radio frequency technology and to support of the company’s partnership with SWISSto12. The team up is meant to provide US-based customers with additive manufacturing products and services and the 3D printing approach is intended to keep […] More

Allison Transmission is working on an electrification technology that will be integrated into the ground combat vehicle fleet of the U.S. Army. Under the Next Generation Electrified Transmission program, the Indianapolis-based company will advance the development, design and validation of a generator and inverter system for a tracked vehicle transmission platform, Allison said Tuesday. Dana Pittard, […] More

A Platform Aerospace-developed unmanned aircraft system broke the world record for unrefueled flight after flying for eight straight days over Edwards Air Force Base in California. Vanilla Unmanned took off from Rogers Dry Lakebed on Sept. 24 equipped with a communications relay system and a ballast to carry other sensors and continued flying through Saturday, […] More

Mark Lewis, former acting deputy undersecretary of the Department of Defense for research and engineering, has joined Stratolaunch‘s technical advisory group. He brings experience in overseeing research and development activities across the DOD, having held positions at the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and other department components, Stratolaunch said Monday. Lewis […] More

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Technologies plan to participate in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency exercise that seeks to demonstrate how a single user can operate a swarm of about 200 unmanned systems in urban areas, C4ISRNET reported Monday. The exercise will be held in November at Fort Campbell in Kentucky as part of DARPA’s […] More

Lockheed Martin has opened a new facility in Courtland, Alabama, for the production and development of advanced hypersonic strike systems intended to mitigate near-peer threats and support U.S. military branches. The Hypersonic Missile Assembly Building 4 covers a 65,000-square-foot area and will serve as Lockheed’s base for hypersonic strike programs, the company said Monday. Sarah Hiza, […] More

Bruce Andrews, a corporate vice president and chief government affairs officer at Intel, said the U.S. government should consider offering strategic incentives to support and promote domestic chip manufacturing. Andrews wrote in an opinion piece published Friday that the need for government incentives has been highlighted by a new Semiconductor Industry Association report, which found […] More

NTT Data has launched a Smart Back to Work Application to assist government organizations and private employers in complying with the Biden Administration’s executive orders and safety initiatives that require vaccinations for federal employees and contractors. The application is designed to help approximately 9.1 million federal government workers upload proof of vaccination, confirm their vaccination status and […] More

The venture capital arms of Lockheed Martin and NTT Docomo have invested in TileDB, a company that developed a system for storing, analyzing and sharing large datasets on-premise or in a cloud environment. TIleDB said Wednesday it will use the funds to further develop its database platform that processes information using multidimensional arrays can work […] More