Government Technology

Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business has demonstrated manned-unmanned teaming between three drones and one human operator as part of a flight test for the Department of Defense. The three unmanned aircraft systems collaboratively executed mission tactics based on an objective set by the operator via a human-machine interface, Raytheon said Wednesday. The MUM-T technology […] More

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force have demonstrated the transfer and deployment of a containerized software update to flight-rated mission hardware using the military service’s Platform One DevSecOps environment. The team showcased the capability of open-architecture commercial technologies to be integrated into military systems to support the Department of Defense’ Joint Domain Command and […] More

Max Peterson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, said AWS launched an innovation studio that will work with policymakers, public sector organizations, academia, industry leaders and citizens to address climate change, education inequality, sustainability, housing insecurity and other societal issues. Peterson wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the AWS Innovation […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has partnered with crowdsourcing platform operator HeroX to conduct the next phase of a prize competition that seeks data collection methods for a geomagnetic reference model widely used in navigation systems. HeroX said Tuesday it will host the MagQuest Challenge‘s Phase 4a, where three teams will aim to demonstrate the instruments […] More

L3Harris Technologies has tapped CAES to develop radio frequency assemblies for the Viper Shield all-digital electronic warfare suite that the former designed to serve as a virtual electronic shield for the F-16 Block 70/72 multirole aircraft. CAES said Tuesday it will leverage its expertise in high volume manufacturing and advanced design strategies to deploy frequency […] More

Skydweller Aero has received an investment from Neva Sgr, a venture capital fund backed by Italy-based banking group Intesa Sanpaolo Group, through its round of Series A financing. Robert Miller, CEO of Skydweller, said in a statement published Tuesday the company is honored with Neva Sgr’s investment in its technology and expects the partnership to […] More

Carahsoft Technology has expanded Zoom‘s video communications software-as-a-service offerings available on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace for federal, state and local governments. Public sector organizations can now purchase the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-authorized Zoom for Government platform through AWS GovCloud, Carahsoft said Monday. As Zoom’s master government aggregator and distributor, Carahsoft is also […] More

NASA has launched a Northrop Grumman-made satellite to expand an existing system that tracks changes on the Earth’s land as part of an effort initiated in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey. Landsat 9 launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Monday from Vandenberg Space Force Base, the space agency said Tuesday. […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ missiles and defense business and Northrop Grumman have jointly demonstrated the flight of a Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept powered by a scramjet engine. The companies are prototyping the scramjet-powered HAWC for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force, Raytheon said Monday. HAWC, was carried and released by an aircraft, […] More

Raytheon Technologies has selected Curtiss-Wright to supply a modular open-systems approach processor and networking modules for what would be the central processing component of a special operations aircraft. Curtiss-Wright said Monday its MOSA technology will support the Next Generation Special Mission Processor for the U.S. Air Force’s AC/MC-130J platforms. NextGen SMP builds on an open-computing […] More

The CERBERUS and Dynamo teams emerged as winners of the two competitions of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Subterranean Challenge, bagging $2 million and $750,000, respectively. CERBERUS, or the CollaborativE walking & flying RoBots for autonomous ExploRation in Underground Settings, landed the top spot on the systems competition where teams demonstrated technologies for mapping […] More