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Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division and the U.S. Navy have completed the builder’s sea trials of the service branch’s 12th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock vessel. The team evaluated the readiness of the future USS Fort Lauderdale and its systems ahead of the ship’s acceptance trials and inclusion in the naval fleet, the Naval […] More

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Class Technologies‘ virtual education software across the U.S. public sector. Class’ software equips the Zoom Meetings platform with teaching and learning tools, such as attendance tracking and student facilitation, Carahsoft said Tuesday. The virtual education software is also designed to provide and automatically grade assignments. Craig Abod, president at […] More

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Icertis‘ contract intelligence platform across the public sector through existing contracts such as those with the National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and OMNIA Partners. The Icertis Contract Intelligence platform uses artificial intelligence to generate contract-based information that reflects how an organization performs, Carahsoft said Thursday. ICI comes in a version […] More

York Space Systems has launched its new facility at the Denver Tech Center to expand the spacecraft manufacturer’s satellite production capacity amid growing demands from customers. The aerospace company said Thursday its initial production capability at DTC increases its simultaneous manufacturing capacity by 70 satellites. The new facility takes up 138,000 square feet. Its first […] More

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, has highlighted the importance of governments and technology companies working together to address increasing cases of cyber attacks in the U.S. and across the globe. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference Wednesday, the executive talked about ransomware, nation-state sponsored attacks and disinformation campaigns and how the three […] More

The U.S. business arms of Hensoldt and QinetiQ are looking to work on collaborative engagements in the country’s defense and national security markets and, in connection, have entered into an agreement to create a strategic partnership framework. The companies will strategically cooperate to develop, integrate, test and field Hensoldt’s sensing technologies for national security projects, […] More

Spirit AeroSystems has opened a new research center at Wichita State University in Kansas to advance work on high temperature materials, such as hypersonic weapons, for aviation, defense and space programs. The National Defense Prototype Center covers over 125,000-square-foot of space for manufacturing and laboratory activities such as material processing and characterization work, the Wichita, […] More

United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket has launched a NASA spacecraft designed for a 12-year mission to help researchers study the Trojan asteroids that share the orbit of Jupiter around the sun. The Lucy spacecraft embarked on an interplanetary trajectory from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Oct. 16, ULA said Saturday. Lucy will fly […] More