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Draper Secures Follow-On NASA Contract to Develop Manned Spacecraft Avionics Tech

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory will continue to help NASA develop and operate avionics software under a follow-on contract worth potentially $49 million over five years. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based nonprofit research and development organization will support the aeroscience and flight mechanics division within the Johnson Space Center’s engineering directorate as part of the Advanced Guidance, Navigation […] More

by Angeline Leishman June 1, 2021, 7:06 am
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Cisco Announces Business Resiliency Program; Chuck Robbins Quoted

Cisco will offer $2.5B in financing through a new program to provide customers and partners access to technology platforms needed to ensure business continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Â The Business Resiliency Program will help clients manage their cash flow during the crisis by allowing them to defer 95 percent of the cost of a new Cisco hardware, software or service until January 2021, the company said Tuesday.

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by Jane Edwards April 15, 2020, 4:26 am
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DHS Discloses EIS Contract Transition Plans in Draft Solicitation

The Department of Homeland Security released a draft solicitation to transition its headquarters data network to the General Services Administration's $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract, FCW reported Thursday.

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by Jane Edwards March 20, 2020, 2:11 am
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Zscaler’s Stephen Kovac on EINSTEIN Cyber Program, Trusted Internet Connections 3.0

Some industry experts said the introduction of draft guidance to implement the Trusted Internet ConnectionsÂ 3.0 policy seeks to reflect the move to separate the Department of Homeland Securityâ€™s EINSTEIN cybersecurity program from the TIC initiative, Federal News Network reported Tuesday.Â â€œTIC 3.0 isnâ€™t here to kill EINSTEIN, but decouple it from TIC. I think some form of EINSTEIN will still need to exist,"Â said Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and corporate compliance at Zscaler.

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by Jane Edwards January 15, 2020, 4:56 am
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SpaceX Launches New Wave of Starlink Internet Satellites

SpaceX has lifted 60 low Earth orbit connectivity satellites for Starlink, the companyâ€™s new internet service, Space News reported Monday.

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by Nichols Martin January 7, 2020, 9:26 am
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Lockheed Tests Precision Strike Missile for Army

Lockheed Martin has completed a test of a new long-range missile geared to address the U.S. Armyâ€™s precision requirements.

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by Nichols Martin December 11, 2019, 8:38 am
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Boeing Eyes Testing of GE-Built Engine on Chinook Helicopters

Boeing plans to test this year two General Electric-built T408 engines for its CH-47 Chinook helicopters, Rotor & Wing International reported Monday. Boeing and GE plan to evaluate the engineâ€™s increased payload and other capabilities through a cooperative research and development agreement that started in 2016.

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by Jane Edwards May 20, 2019, 11:40 pm
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Mitre to Perform Cyber Product Assessments via ATT&CK Evaluations Program

Mitre will assess cybersecurity platforms based on techniques used by a threat group called APT29 through the ATT&CK Evaluations program. The program uses ATT&CK, a knowledge base of threat actorsâ€™ tactics and techniques based on published vulnerability reports and observations, Mitre said Wednesday.

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by Jane Edwards May 2, 2019, 12:21 am
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Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Helps NASA Prepare for Return to Lunar Surface

Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's space business and a 2019 Wash100 winner,Â said in a video interview aired Tuesday he predicts NASA will send humans back to the moon via a lunar gatewayÂ within the next decade.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers January 30, 2019, 6:07 am

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