Lockheed Martin has begun offering licenses to commercial satellite developers and operators looking to use its Horizon command and control and Compass mission planning software for future space missions. The company said the C2 and mission planning platforms are designed to help satellite companies enable autonomous operations, orbit management and formation flying for constellations of […] More

Kinder Morgan Inc., a critical infrastructure operator that delivers oil and gas to U.S. government and commercial clients, has selected Xage Security to secure its information technology and operational technology systems. Xage said Tuesday it will provide the energy infrastructure operator with zero trust access and data security products to help boost its cybersecurity resilience […] More

Aware and Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based company Uqoud have partnered to integrate biometric authentication technology into a platform built to help customers digitally manage the life cycle of agreements. The partnership will equip Uqoud’s contract management platform with the Knomi tool to support user onboarding and identity verification processes, Aware said Tuesday. Knomi employs the […] More

A new SpyCloud study identified malware as the key cyberthreat that led to the most incidents of user data exposure in 2022 and indicated that government devices were more prone to malware infection than enterprise systems. The 2023 SpyCloud Identity Exposure Report, released Tuesday, investigated almost 22 billion records from devices and cookie sessions, as […] More

Darlene Coen, who retired from government service after helping lead a NASA governmentwide acquisition contract for over a decade, has joined CGI‘s federal arm as director and acquisition strategy lead in its consulting, applications, solutions and technology practice, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Earlier in her career, Coen was a government contracting officer for 15 years. In […] More

HawkEye 360 has commissioned its sixth cluster of radio frequency-sensing satellites, the first of its constellation to enter an inclined orbit. The three new satellites are expected to bolster data collection of RF-based intelligence in mid-latitude regions, the company announced Tuesday. The Cluster 6 satellites are supported by a new ground station in Maui, Hawaii, […] More

The State Department has cleared Romania’s request to buy 95 more Joint Light Tactical Vehicles equipped with a protected gun mount under an approximately $104 million foreign military sale deal. Romania originally ordered 34 Oshkosh-built M1278A1 JLTV heavy gun carriers from the U.S. government for approximately $43.7 million, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday. […] More

A new survey conducted by Government Executive and underwritten by Denodo has found that only 43 percent of federal government information technology decision-makers and influencers felt very confident that they could govern, protect and manage data, which is one of the key aspects of the Federal Data Strategy. Denodo said Tuesday GovExec polled 200 federal […] More

NASA has picked Axiom Space to carry out the third private manned mission to the International Space Station. Axiom Mission 3 is set to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than November 2023 to support private astronauts’ in-orbit activities for two weeks with the help of ground flight controllers and crew members aboard […] More

The U.S. Navy awarded a $57.4 million contract modification to Northrop Grumman for continued services in support of the MQ-4C Triton aircraft of the service branch and the Australian government.  The aerospace and defense company will provide sustainment, engineering, logistics and test support for the unmanned aerial systems, mission control and operator training systems, the […] More

Michael Shrader, intel community vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, said information technology workforce development and retention, data management, interoperability and partnerships are some of the challenges the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community should address. Shrader wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that DOD and IC have begun to address competition for IT […] More

With competition between the world’s great powers on the rise, United States leaders are working to identify areas in which the country must advance — and rapidly. The next three to five years will be pivotal in the global competition, making our next moves absolutely critical. John Heller, CEO of Amentum and seven-time Wash100 Award winner, said […] More