Government Technology

Raytheon Technologies is applying modeling and simulation tools in an effort to understand threat scenarios associated with unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Wednesday its missiles and defense unit begins the simulation process with “the outer layers of air defense” to detect a possible drone threat before the UAS reaches a target such as a […] More

Clint Crosier, a retired Air Force major general and director of aerospace and satellite team at Amazon Web Services, said he thinks high-performance computing is one of the use cases that the cloud is enabling in the space domain because it offers additional capability for digital engineering, digital modeling and simulation. “I think we will […] More

Robert Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions and a previous Wash100 Award winner, said he believes cyber is the primary challenge facing federal agency chief information officers and chief information security officers when it comes to managing and securing data in a hybrid cloud environment. “So to wrap a coherent security architecture around the disparate […] More

Several industry leaders and observers agree that the Department of Defense’s move to replace its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract with a multi-award procurement vehicle represents a fresh start to address its evolving technology requirements, the National Defense Magazine reported Friday. Alex Rossino, an advisory research analyst on Deltek‘s federal market analysis team, told […] More

The electronic warfare aircraft designed by L3Harris Technologies to serve as a technology demonstrator for a U.S. Army intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance program completed its maiden flight after six months of modification. The Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare System aircraft will support the Army’s High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System initiative aimed at enabling the […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has finished the builder’s trials for an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy. The Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) ship, named after the first African American aviator and general officer of the U.S. Marine Corps, underwent combat system testing in the Gulf of Mexico for […] More

Matterport has partnered with In-Q-Tel on the development of a government cloud platform that is planned for deployment on the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) to support agencies’ information acquisition and management efforts. The move is aimed at addressing cybersecurity and other regulatory and compliance requirements to provide secure cloud services to federal and civilian […] More

BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has released an embedded receiver product that works with military signals and supports positioning, navigation and timing systems. MicroGRAM-M is the same size as a postage stamp and has security features designed to protect the device from spoofing or jamming attacks, the company said Thursday. Greg Wild, director of navigation and […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has completed the test flight of its new tactical drone system at the company’s recently approved Burns Flat Range facility in Oklahoma to demonstrate new mission capabilities. The Air Wolf tactical drone carrying an artificial intelligence/autonomy system and other payloads marked the inaugural flight at the company’s latest asset designed […] More