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NASA and Uber Technologies have teamed up to identify new urban air mobility-related technologies and concepts designed to ensure safety of aerial transportation operations in populated areas. The agency said Wednesday Uber will share its implementation plans for an urban aviation rideshare network, while NASA will use computer modeling and simulation for airspace management to […] More
Technical Frontiers Inc. has achieved a CMMI Institute Capability Maturity Model Integration appraisal at level 3 for services. TFI said April 30 the rating indicates that the company has implemented general and specific process areas of the model and managed its business processes at a “defined” level. The firm was also re-appraised at CMMI level 3 for development following […] More
Alfred Zollar, a veteran of IBM, has been named to Red Hat‘s board of directors. “Al will help us continue to anticipate and deliver open source technologies,” Naren Gupta, the board of directors chairman at Red Hat, said in Monday’s press release. Zollar’s career started at IBM where he progressed to senior leadership roles that […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun to fabricate the first guided missile destroyer that will employ the U.S. Navy‘s Flight III design upgrade. The company said Tuesday it cut the first 100 tons of steel needed to construct the future Arleigh Burke-class Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) ship. HII will equip DDG 125 with an Advanced Missile Defense […] More
Concurrent Technologies Corp. will sponsor the three-day 28th Annual Showcase for Commerce that will kick off on May 30 in Johnstown, Pa. Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), and Rep. Keith Rothfus (R-Pa.) are among the congressional leaders who are expected to attend the event that seeks to help industry representatives connect with defense contractors and […] More
DXC Technology has launched a platform as a service designed to help organizations speed up the development and deployment of applications across private, public and hybrid environments. The DXC Managed Container PaaS powered by Red Hat OpenShift works to help developers build, manage and field containerized apps through a single platform and can be integrated […] More
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration opened a second round of request for proposals for commercial satellite data to help enhance weather forecast models, SpaceNews reported Monday. The second round of solicitation for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot program seeks companies that can provide a minimum of two periods of global positioning system radio occultation data […] More
Orbital ATK produced at its Beltsville, Md.-based facility the heat pipes for a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft that took off Saturday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket in support of NASA’s Mars mission. Orbital ATK said Monday that it also produced an ultraflex solar array and diaphragm tanks for the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and […] More
The U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of a Northrop Grumman-built multispectral test platform designed to prepare the service branch’s F-35 aircraft for complex missions in electromagnetic spectrum environments. Northrop said Tuesday it shipped the Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator, Signal Measurement System and the Synchronizer Controller System to the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in Point Mogu, Calif. CEESIM is designed to […] More
Lockheed Martin has resumed deliveries of F-35 fighter jets to the Defense Department after both parties addressed differences over aircraft repair costs, Reuters reported Tuesday. The Pentagon’s F-35 joint program office told Reuters that DoD stopped accepting F-35s in late March due to a disagreement on who should be financially responsible for a production quality issue that was […] More
Science Applications International Corp. brought together multiple veteran-owned companies at a networking session in an effort to help small businesses identify potential teaming opportunities with the Reston, Va.-based government technology services contractor. Representatives from more than 60 small businesses attended the event and pitched various offerings for the public sector, SAIC said Friday. “SAIC’s partnership with the […] More
SpaceX‘s Dragon capsule splashed down into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, carrying more than 4,000 pounds’ worth of payload from the International Space Station. The company said Saturday Dragon’s return from ISS marked the completion of its 14th cargo resupply mission. The spacecraft embarked on the mission–its second trip to the space station–aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape […] More
