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Raytheon BBN Technologies Receives DARPA Contract to Develop Supply Demand Network Simulator

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded RTX's Raytheon BBN Technologies the Resilient Supply-and-Demand Networks contract. The RSDN contract calls for the development of a modeling and simulation tool that will work to predict how supply demand networks might be impacted by shocks and formulate mitigations to address those effects, RTX said Monday.

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by Jerry Petersen December 5, 2023, 8:28 am
in Financial Reports, News

Intelsat Revenue This Year Expected to Hit $2.1B; David Wajsgras Quoted

Intelsat held an investor day on Nov. 30 during which officials offered attendees a look at the company's finances. Intelsat CEO and seven-time Wash100 awardee David Wajsgras said during the event that his company is positioned to deliver $2.1 billion in revenue this year.

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by Aidan Daly December 4, 2023, 11:38 am
in Executive Moves, News

Kenneth Bedingfield Appointed as L3Harris SVP & Chief Financial Officer

Kenneth Bedingfield has been selected to serve as senior vice president and chief financial officer of L3Harris Technologies, effective Dec. 11. In his new role, Bedingfield will guide the company’s financial strategy while overseeing its global finance team, L3Harris announced from its Melbourne, Florida headquarters on Monday.

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by Ireland Degges December 4, 2023, 11:36 am
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DZYNE Technologies to Open New Manufacturing, R&D Facility in California

DZYNE Technologies will open a new manufacturing and research and development facility in Irvine, California, to accommodate its growing workforce of engineers, researchers and manufacturing personnel and support its development of uncrewed autonomous systems for defense applications. The 125,000-square-foot facility will be showcased in the new year along with the company's autonomous defense offerings and manufacturing capabilities.

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by Christine Thropp December 4, 2023, 10:52 am
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NuHarbor Security, RavenTek Partner to Offer Combined Splunk Visibility Services

RavenTek has partnered with cybersecurity services provider NuHarbor Security to develop a unified offering to enable public sector customers to deploy and manage multiple capabilities on Splunk. The offering will combine RavenTek's RavenVISION framework with NuHarbor's cybersecurity and managed security operations center services to provide government organizations access to integrated Splunk security and information technology observability capabilities, RavenTek said Thursday.

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by Naomi Cooper December 4, 2023, 10:18 am
in Artificial Intelligence, News

Carahsoft’s Tim Boltz Encourages Platform-First Approach to AI Implementation in Health IT

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being implemented in telehealth and health IT security, and medical companies need to adopt a platform-first approach to maximize their investment in the technology, said Tim Boltz, sales director at Carahsoft. In an article published Friday, Boltz provided highlights of the Becker’s Health IT + Digital Health + RCM conference in Chicago.

Technology is a vital element of healthcare services. Join the Potomac Officers Club in discussing health IT at the 2023 Healthcare Summit on Dec. 6. Registration is still open.

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by Jamie Bennet December 4, 2023, 9:59 am
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HII Ingalls Shipbuilding Christens Navy’s New Multi-Purpose Amphibious Assault Ship

HII has christened the U.S. Navy's third America-class amphibious assault ship, named after Bougainville Island in the Solomons in honor of a World War 2 campaign that dismantled the Japanese stronghold. Ellyn Dunford, wife of former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman and U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Joe Dunford Jr., sponsored the christening of USS Bougainville, the company said Saturday.

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by Kacey Roberts December 4, 2023, 9:57 am
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Amazon Secures Contract With SpaceX for Additional Launch Capacity for Upcoming Satellite Broadband Network

SpaceX has entered into a contract to help Amazon deploy Project Kuiper, a low Earth orbit satellite broadband network, by providing launch services using the Falcon 9 vehicle beginning mid-2025. Amazon said Saturday that the contract involves the provision of three Falcon 9 launches to augment a total of 77 heavy-lift rocket launches already secured from Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance.

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by Jerry Petersen December 4, 2023, 9:14 am
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Anduril Announces New VTOL-Capable Autonomous Air Vehicle & Airborne Threat Interceptor Variant

Anduril has unveiled Roadrunner, a vertical takeoff and landing-capable autonomous air vehicle, and its ground-based air defense variant, Roadrunner-Munition. Roadrunner features a twin-jet engine and a modular payload system while Roadrunner-M features target interception capabilities and reusability if it is not used to destroy the target, Anduril said Frida.

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by Jerry Petersen December 4, 2023, 9:11 am
in Artificial Intelligence, News

Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Pragyansmita Nayak on AI’s Potential to Achieve Mission Objectives

Pragyansmita Nayak, chief data scientist at Hitachi Vantara's federal subsidiary, has outlined strategic steps to integrate artificial intelligence tools into government systems to optimize operations, enhance security and achieve mission objectives. Federal agencies must first establish a data management strategy, focusing on data provenance and lineage, to ensure data quality and prevent the infiltration of "poisoned" data that threat actors may exploit to disrupt AI systems, Nayak wrote in an opinion article Federal News Network published Friday.

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by Naomi Cooper December 4, 2023, 9:11 am
in Executive Moves, News

Exelon’s Calvin Butler & IBP’s Jeff Edwards Join Battelle Board; Lou Von Thaer Quoted

Battelle, a company focused on research and development associated with national security, energy, health and the environment, has appointed two executives to its board of directors. These leaders, Exelon President and CEO Calvin Butler and Installed Building Products President, CEO and Chairman Jeff Edwards, will join the team effective immediately, the Columbus, Ohio-based enterprise announced on Thursday.

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by Ireland Degges December 1, 2023, 11:11 am
in Artificial Intelligence, News

IBM Advances Geospatial AI Tools to Support Global Climate Efforts

IBM is working to advance its geospatial artificial intelligence tools, including the new AI foundation model developed in partnership with NASA, to support climate efforts in the U.A.E., Kenya and the U.K. The company said Thursday it has partnered with the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence to fine-tune its geospatial foundation model for mapping urban heat islands in Abu Dhabi and parts of the U.A.E.

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by Naomi Cooper December 1, 2023, 10:56 am