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SAP National Security Services is now compliant with International Traffic in Arms Regulation requirements for the deployment of SAP Ariba on Google Cloud's Assured Workloads platform. Google Cloud announced Wednesday that the ITAR compliance for SAP Ariba, an end-to-end procurement service, will benefit its customers that use Assured Workloads for their ITAR-controlled software or technical information.

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions has released its second annual report on the level and impact of fraud on the U.S. government's Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program and Integrated Eligibility Systems to inform agencies on the volume, cost and challenges posed by SNAP benefits fraud. In a statement published Tuesday, Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' Government Group and a three-time Wash100 awardee, noted an increase in criminal activity against government programs, including the use of artificial intelligence and bots.

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Northrop Grumman has delivered ten booster motor segments that will be built into NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System rocket. The components, which will make up the twin solid rocket boosters of SLS, arrived by rail at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, NASA announced.

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The U.S. space and defense business arm of Airbus has opened a new office in Denver, Colorado, its third in the state. Airbus said Tuesday the new facility will support defense, space and technology initiatives while serving as a central hub for remote employees across western America.

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A coalition of experts, technologists and researchers has been established with the aim of increasing public understanding and adoption of post-quantum cryptography. The members of the PQC Coalition will work to, among other things, promote standards and technical approaches related to post-quantum cryptography and mature technologies in anticipation of the transition to PQC, Mitre, one of the coalition's founding members, said Tuesday.

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Nokia has joined a Massachusetts Technology Collaborative-led effort to establish a regional innovation hub that will help the Department of Defense meet its microelectronics needs, reduce reliance on other countries for such components and mitigate supply chain risks.

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The Department of the Air Force and the Defense Innovation Unit have partnered to deploy electric vehicle charging as a service solutions. According to DIU, the joint EV CaaS project operationalizes DAF's Climate Action Plan as well as Executive Orders 14008 and 14057. The CaaS solutions deployment will be at six U.S. Air Force installations.

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