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A National Science Foundation-managed observatory has chosen Google to provide an interim cloud environment that will host astronomical data ahead of the telescope’s scheduled commencement of operations in 2023.
Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary launched two small satellites as part of a controlled flight experiment to demonstrate a technology designed to help address orbital debris congestion. The DRAGRACER satellites took off aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle Nov. 19 to demonstrate a deployable tether technology designed to help low-Earth orbit satellites quickly return to the Earth's surface.
Raytheon Technologies has adopted a new digital engineering technique to help Maxar Technologies build sensor-integrated imaging satellites scheduled to launch next year.
Michael Garbus, former vice president of global health business development and solutions at Maximus, has been named VP of health care information technology at TurningPoint Global Solutions. He brings 35 years of industry experience to TurningPoint and will be responsible for the Rockville, Maryland-based software engineering company's federal health care IT market area.
Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware and a three-time Wash100 Award recipient, said in a video interview posted Friday on FedScoop that the federal government has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in an innovative and timely fashion by embracing digital transformation to facilitate the delivery of services to citizens and accomplish the mission while keeping their employees safe amid the health crisis.
General Atomics' aeronautical systems business has tested the wing structure of an MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft variant during a full-scale static testing period that lasted for three months.
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) has awarded Accenture Federal Services (AFS) a five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to modernize the client case-management system of the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services (PPS) System. Under the BPA, AFS will help the AOUSC design, integrate, deploy and support a secure cloud-based client case-management system on a software-as-a-service platform.
Veritone has attained a designation from Amazon Web Services that represents the company's performance under the AWS Technology Partner initiative as a provider of public safety technologies equipped with artificial intelligence. Veritone said Friday it now holds the AWS Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency status in recognition of AWS-powered technologies that support public safety missions.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that NASA launched Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the company's 21st commercial resupply mission is expected to arrive at the International Space Station on Monday around 1:30 p.m. EST. The updated Dragon flew with over 6.4K pounds of cargo for the station aboard a Falcon 9 rocket and will demonstrate SpaceX's first autonomous docking with the ISS, NASA said Monday.
Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has developed a workstation designed to streamline the way air traffic controllers manage and perform multiple tasks. The company said Thursday it gathered input from air traffic controllers to produce the Multi-platform Automation Re-hosting Solution or MARS.
Altamira Technologies will collaborate with five other companies under a one-year, $8.5M contract to build a mission data processing application prototype for the U.S. Space Force's Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution program. “We are excited to have the opportunity to leverage our core capabilities and experience to further serve this important national space mission area," said Blaine Worthington, chief operating officer of Altamira.
Easy Dynamics has appointed Justin Legary, an information technology veteran who spent more than a decade at the Department of Homeland Security, to serve as senior director of delivery, operations and services at the McLean, Virginia-based IT company, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday.
