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UP Aerospace and Cesaroni Aerospace have teamed up to establish a solid rocket motor manufacturing and test facility at the Spaceport America hub in New Mexico. The Space Propulsion Center was built to manufacture military-grade rocket motors for U.S. government clients as well as aid propulsion development efforts for UP Aerospace’s Spyder orbital launch vehicle, the company […] More

QTS Realty Trust has begun to build a 52-acre data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia, in a push to grow the company’s Tier 1 data center offerings. QTS said Tuesday it bought a 24-acre land parcel and a 28-acre lot for $53 million in total to establish the mega facility. The company expects the new site to support […] More

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company’s 2018 orders and backlog levels could take a hit if Congress passes another stopgap measure to fund U.S. government operations, CNBC reported Tuesday. Hewson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, stated at Lockheed’s third-quarter earnings conference call that the company expects its 2017 financials to remain unaffected by the […] More

Tucson, Arizona-based nanosatellite launch firm Vector will perform three orbital launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island in Virginia over the next two years under an agreement with the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority. The deal with Virginia Space includes an option for Vector to conduct five additional orbital launches at MARS, Virginia […] More

A technology trade group has issued policy principles that aim to advance responsible design and adoption of artificial intelligence platforms, The Hill reported Tuesday. “As we develop and design AI, human safety will be at the center of that deployment,” said Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council. The policy principles […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for a new manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The 136,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Facility is scheduled to start operations in late 2019 and will support the production of various aerospace platforms as well as additive manufacturing work, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday. The company will also conduct advanced rocket propulsion research and development activities at the new […] More

California Institute of Technology has opened a new facility to help further research efforts on drones, driverless cars, robotics and machine learning technologies. Caltech said Tuesday it established the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies to serve as a hub for university, industry and government researchers, such as NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory experts, to collaborate in efforts […] More

Lockheed Martin has chosen Rockwell Collins to supply avionics technology for integration into the Greek navy’s P-3 maritime patrol aircraft in an effort to help the service branch comply with global airspace operation requirements. Rockwell Collins said Monday it will provide the company-made Flight2 integrated avionics system to transform the flight deck of Greek P-3s into a glass cockpit […] More

Lockheed Martin and Spike Aerospace are among the companies that submitted proposals to NASA in September to build a full-scale demonstrator of a supersonic passenger jet, Popular Mechanics reported Monday. The bids come as NASA works to complete wind-tunnel tests on a 15-percent-scale model of the Quiet Supersonic Technology X-plane at Langley Research Center in Virginia. […] More

EY has teamed up with UiPath to provide robotic process automation capacities for organizations around the world. EY said Tuesday it will license a UiPath-built software to offer capacities that can help companies create new services and link existing platforms with robot-aware digital technologies. The licensing activity will also look to boost the speed and […] More