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Voyager Space and Northrop Grumman have unveiled plans to collaborate to enhance the capabilities of the Starlab space station and Cygnus spacecraft. The teaming agreement involves developing a fully autonomous rendezvous docking system to upgrade Cygnus and use it in Starlab missions.
Manufacturing company ITT has elected Nazzic Keene, former CEO of Science Applications International Corp. and a Wash100 winner, to its board of directors. Keene, whose appointment goes into effect on Oct. 6, will become part of the nominating and governance committee.
Equus Compute Solutions and Ultrascale Digital Infrastructure have partnered to conduct research and development efforts aimed at advancing liquid cooling technology. The team will concentrate its efforts on the creation of micro data centers equipped with immersion cooling technology.
The Defense Contract Management Agency, on behalf of the U.S. Army, accepted the first GE Aerospace-built flight test engine for the Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft on Sept. 28. The second T901 engine is going through the acceptance process under the Army’s Improved Turbine Engine Program and the service is set to hand over the two engines to two vendors working on two FARA competitive prototypes – Raider X from Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky business and 360 Invictus from Textron's Bell subsidiary – by the end of October.
SRI International will further develop its space object tracking technology under the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Space Debris Identification and Tracking program. The nonprofit research organization is working on the Space Object Tracking and Evaluation via Radar Integration and Analysis project in collaboration with Leidos and SCOUT Space through IARPA's SINTRA program.
Paul Chi is a three-decade Booz Allen Hamilton executive overseeing the company's intelligence business. His cohort’s principal work is in data science, information technology, cybersecurity and engineering, among other focus areas.
This month, Paul sat down with ExecutiveBiz to mull over the many impacts of the conflict in Ukraine on how and what technology the U.S. government implements, with a specific focus on classified environments and unmanned aerial vehicles. He also mused about Internet of Things tech.
The U.S. Navy recently conducted Demonstration and Shakedown Operation-32 off the coast of California, whose purpose was to determine the readiness of the crew and weapon systems of the USS Louisiana, an Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine that had just completed an engineering refueling overhaul. During DASO-32, the Navy test launched an unarmed Trident II D5 life extension fleet ballistic missile, a weapon used aboard Ohio-class subs and Vanguard-class subs of the U.K. Royal Navy.
AI company Vayu Robotics announced the closing of its seed financing round of $12.7 million led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from the investment arm of Lockheed Martin, ReMY Investors and others. Vayu said the funding round will enable the scaling of product development for AI robotics across markets.
A General Dynamics subsidiary has received a $218 million initial task order from the U.S. Army for expanded production of 155mm M1128 load, assemble and pack requirements. The initial task order was awarded to General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems under a $974.4 million multi-award contract for the M1128 artillery.
PsiQuantum has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with Stanford University to use the facilities at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to support the development of a commercial quantum computing system. The company said Thursday it will design and develop cryogenic quantum modules using SLAC's high-power cryogenic infrastructure, which provides kilowatts of cooling power necessary to build a large-scale quantum computer.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense has awarded a five-year, $126.5 million firm-fixed-price contract to QinetiQ's U.S. business to aid the agency in its mission to bolster national security. QinetiQ said Tuesday it will provide technical, professional and administrative services in support of OSD’s Strategic Capabilities Office.
SentinelOne has announced the availability of its artificial intelligence-powered unified security data visibility tool to the government sector through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Marketplace. The SentinelOne Singularity Security DataLake is a FedRAMP-authorized platform that works to enable government and commercial customers to organize their data into a centralized interface to gather actionable insights for real-time cyber threat investigation and response.
