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Teresa Carlson, chief growth officer of Splunk and a six-time Wash100 awardee, said federal government customers are transitioning towards services-based cloud contracts that are managed by commercial data centers, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. “You look at the new models, governments are not always paying for what they are building [to establish cloud services]. […] More
Frederick Stefany, the acting assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, has declared a Raytheon Technologies-made mid-band jamming pod ready for low-rate initial production. The Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band program has achieved Milestone C, which allows the system to undergo production and deployment, Naval Air Systems Command said Tuesday. NGJ-MB will use […] More
Leidos has secured a potential $2.5 billion Advanced Enterprise Global Information Technology Solutions contract from NASA for delivery of telecommunications, cloud and data center services in support of all of the agency’s centers and facilities. “Our work with NASA to evolve their IT infrastructure ultimately helps support their mission of returning to the moon, exploring […] More
Accenture, Avanade, Ericsson and Spirent Communications have joined the 5G Open Innovation Lab as partners that will contribute technical and development capabilities to the lab and support its network of startups. Jim Brisimitzis, general partner of 5GOILab, said in a statement published Monday new founding partners Accenture and Avanade and corporate partners Ericsson and Spirent […] More
The Department of Defense has approved two new certifications submitted by an international nonprofit membership association for aspiring cloud and health care security personnel. (ISC)2 said Monday its HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Practitioner and Certified Cloud Security Professional accreditations are now included in the DoD 8570 Approved Baseline Certifications table. The HCISPP will be […] More
Detraxi has received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I grant that provides the cloud-based satellite network technology developer an opportunity to join the SBIR Phase II on-the-spot contract competition during the first Space Force Pitch Day in mid-August. Michael Spytek, president of Detraxi, said in a statement published Monday the U.S. Space Force grant […] More
A division within Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has concluded testing of a low-cost, attritable turbine engine core designed for unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles. The company said Monday Kratos Turbine Technologies division completed engine core testing under the Advanced Turbine Technologies for Affordable Mission program and exhibited the operability and performance of Kratos’ […] More
Two new Boeing-made solar arrays have been installed by astronauts outside the International Space Station to provide power for the orbiting laboratory. The company said Monday the new arrays generate twice the energy than those produced by the original ones, and feature solar cells built by Spectrolab and a Redwire-developed roll-out structure for enabling movement […] More
Northrop Grumman is working to establish “justified confidence” in artificial intelligence systems by aligning AI development with the Department of Defense’s five AI ethical principles to ensure that such platforms are accountable, robust and reliable. The company said Monday it is implementing an integrated approach to developing secure and ethical AI systems and one of […] More
BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary will deliver Lot 16 electronic warfare systems and associated items for Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 Lightning II aircraft production. The company said Monday BAE Systems Inc. will provide full units, retrofit kits and spare parts of the AN/ASQ-239 EW system, which offers both electronic attack and defense features to support the fighter […] More
Clark Construction Group and Byrne Construction Services will collaborate to build a 76,000 square-foot aquatics training facility at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas, where the Special Warfare Training Squadron will hold a full range of special operations exercises. The $66.6 million project is aimed at meeting battlefield airmen training demands by accomodating more than […] More
An industry team led by Raytheon Technologies will support a U.S. Army program that seeks to build a tactical ground station to help detect and monitor threats for long-range precision targeting operations. The Raytheon-led team for the service’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node program includes Algorithmia, C3.ai, Collins Aerospace, Curtiss-Wright’s defense solution division, Esri, General […] More
