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Phase Four, an El Segundo, California-based satellite propulsion startup, has secured a $26 million investment following the conclusion of a Series B funding round led by venture capital firm New Science Ventures. Beau Jarvis, CEO of Phase Four, said in a statement published Friday the new capital will be used to boost its production capability […] More
Amazon Web Services has selected 10 startup companies from the U.S. and Europe to study and develop space-based cloud technologies that have the potential to be applied to spacecraft launch and delivery, electronics and robotics, spacecraft hardware and software as well as earth observation efforts. The companies will receive up to $100,000 each in AWS […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton has completed the acquisition of Liberty IT Solutions for $725 million in an effort to enhance the former’s ability to deliver end-to-end digital offerings and expand its digital transformation portfolio. Liberty will now operate as a Booz Allen company and integrate with its Civilian Services Group led by Executive Vice President Kristine […] More
Verizon Business has expanded its portfolio of networking tools with the launch of a private 5G network offering designed to provide business and government customers with Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband connection capabilities. The company said Thursday the On Site 5G private network is capable of supporting different operational environments, including those that are not within […] More
Jeffrey “JPL” Lipson, CEO of Pennsylvania-based Layer 8 Security and a reserve U.S. Marine colonel, will join the FedComply team as its newly appointed senior adviser. The Philadelphia-based cybersecurity consulting firm said Thursday the 27-year military veteran will aid FedComply in the preparation of small and midsize businesses for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification of […] More
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has completed a recent flight test of a sensor aboard the Virgin Galactic-made VSS Unity spacecraft and demonstrated its ability to assess the inside conditions of a suborbital space vehicle and its payload. The JHU APL Integrated Universal Suborbital platform was able to specify VSS Unity’s electromagnetic field environment […] More
Chief information security officers in all 50 states can now access a Deloitte-built online resource of cyber threat intelligence reports under a partnership agreement between the company and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center. The Cyber Detect and Respond Portal, designed to provide users information about malicious actors and campaigns, will be available to […] More
Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the U.S. Space Force is set to launch on Sunday, June 13, a monitoring satellite aboard the Northrop Grumman-built Pegasus XL rocket to provide “space domain awareness” as part of the TacRL-2 mission, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Raymond said a new office […] More
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions contributed ballistic and airborne targets in support of a multi-national exercise through which the U.S. Navy, NATO and allied forces demonstrated integrated air and missile defense. Formidable Shield 2021 took place from May 15 to June 2 at the Scotland-based Hebrides Range of the U.K.’s defense ministry and leveraged Kratos-built […] More
Bridget Lauderdale, vice president and general manager of the F-35 program at Lockheed Martin, said the company is seeing the recovery of the F-35 fighter jet supply chain after a year of factory closures and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Defense One reported Thursday. “We’re seeing the return of a good portion of the […] More
Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, has asked Congress for $79.8 million in his fiscal year 2022 unfunded priority list to fund testing of new terminal prototypes that can connect with multiple commercial constellations. The requested amount would continue testing of SpaceX and OneWeb low-Earth-orbit satellite […] More
Iridium Communications is participating in a series of field exercises that aim to demonstrate the satelite communication capabilities of a range of applications in the polar regions. The company said Thursday it will field its satcom technologies across exercises involving remote environment, at-the-halt, on-base and communications-on-the-move scenarios during Operation Arctic Lynx. The event, scheduled to […] More
