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Unisys CEO Peter Altabef said the Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based information technology company is “doubling down” on public sector-focused cloud business and advancing growth initiatives for its digital workplace services division, FedScoop reported Friday. Unisys created the cloud and infrastructure and digital workplace services business segments following the sale of its federal services arm to Science […]

Parsons has secured a spot on a multiple-award contract with a minimum value of $28 million and a $68 million ceiling to provide the Naval Warfare Center, Pacific, with engineering and technical services. Under the three-year contract, the company will support the command, control, communications, computer and intelligence surveillance reconnaissance systems of the naval joint, […]

An industry team led by Federated Wireless has helped the Department of Defense test a 5G network model using shared spectrum bandwidth as part of a project to modernize warehouse operations at a U.S. Marine Corps installation in Georgia. The Smart Warehouse Technology prototype reached a download speed of 1.5 gigabits per second and a […]

Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance and a previous Wash100 Award winner, said Blue Origin’s BE-4 engines that will power ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket continue to perform well in tests and that he expects the flight engines to be delivered before the end of 2021, SpaceNews reported Thursday. He told the publication the reason […]

Rocket Lab is preparing to launch a 55-pound satellite developed by Advanced Space to help NASA test technologies with the potential to facilitate safe navigation for lunar exploration. The launch service provider said Friday its Electron rocket and Photon spacecraft will fly the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment or CAPSTONE from […]

The U.S. Navy has christened the USS Nantucket, its 14th and newest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship that was constructed by a team from Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine under a multi-million contract awarded in 2017. FMM released a LinkedIn post featuring the Saturday cermony that saw the vessel being launched into the Menominee River […]

Sea Machines Robotics will continue developing a full-scale, replenishing military vertical takeoff and landing platform under the second phase of a multiyear other transaction agreement with the Department of Defense, Robotics 24/7 reported Thursday.  The $3.1 million contract provides for engineering of an operational kit and delivery of other items to support the platform’s future […]

Craig Heartwell, chief technology officer at Presidio Federal, said Department of Defense leaders looking to scale and use data in real time for decision making must make sure disparate data aligns with DOD tasks and missions. He wrote in a blog post Nextgov published Friday that, in connection, the defense data strategy and the department’s […]

GovOS, a Kofile company that offers digital transformation services to local governments, has inaugurated its new headquarters in Austin, Texas, in an effort to establish its base of operations in the area. Kofile said Wednesday the new company space is also aimed at moving closer to a pool of technology talents and software industry executives, […]

The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has expanded a public-private partnership on technologies for quantum information management with the addition of Verizon and Zurich Instruments’ U.S. business arm. Argonne said Thursday Q-NEXT is a national quantum information science research center that seeks to develop technologies for quantum information handling, storage and transmission by pushing […]