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Northrop Grumman is set to launch on Wednesday, Nov. 7, a NASA satellite built to explore Earth’s space environment aboard its Pegasus XL rocket. The company said Tuesday Pegasus carrying the Northrop-built Ionospheric Connection Explorer satellite will be dropped in mid-air by the Stargazer L-1011 carrier aircraft once the plane takes off from Cape Canaveral Air Force […] More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with IBM to leverage an artificial intelligence system to rate the severity of publicly reported cyber vulnerabilities, Nextgov reported Friday. Matthew Scholl, head of NIST’s computer security division, said the institute expects IBM’s Watson AI system to give risk scores to most public computer bugs by […] More
Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has secured the 24th spot on the Washington Business Journal’s list of 75 fastest-growing companies in the region. The company said Monday WBJ held an awards ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 1, to recognize companies that recorded annual revenue growth between 2015 and 2017. “I accept this award on behalf of all […] More
A Northrop Grumman official told NASASpaceflight in an interview published Monday the company sees “a lot of synergies†between the Common Booster Segments for the OmegA rocket and the solid rocket boosters for NASA’s Space Launch System. “And there’s a lot of benefit to NASA from a cost perspective on SLS if OmegA goes forward, […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched the second phase of a potential five-year, $1.5B program that aims to advance microelectronics innovation through new microsystem designs, materials and architectures. DARPA said Thursday the Electronics Resurgence Initiative’s Phase II seeks to address the need to support domestic production options to advance capability development for diverse needs; […] More
Amazon is in talks with stakeholders about plans to establish its second corporate headquarters in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City, the Washington Post reported Saturday. Sources familiar with the matter told The Post the discussions are now in the advanced stages and more elaborate than those the company has had with other potential sites within the […] More
Northrop Grumman plans to launch no earlier than Wednesday, Nov. 7, NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer spacecraft aboard the Pegasus XL rocket that will be air-dropped from the L-1011 Stargazer carrier aircraft, Spaceflight Now reported Friday. Northrop tentatively rescheduled the ICON launch as the company plans to conduct a launch readiness review as early as Monday to further […] More
IBM’s planned $34B acquisition of Red Hat could have an impact on the federal cloud market and agencies’ information technology modernization plans, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. IBM agreed in late October to pay $190 in cash for each share of Red Hat in a move to establish a global provider of hybrid cloud platforms. BGOV […] More
Siemens and the International Society of Automation co-sponsored a workshop on Monday, Oct. 29, in Houston to discuss new approaches to safeguard the energy sector from cyber attacks. Cybersecurity professionals from government and industry discussed how machine learning and security analytics platforms could help detect vulnerabilities and defend industrial control systems and other critical infrastructure […] More
Boeing and Israel have signed a reciprocal purchase agreement that calls for the Chicago-based contractor to invest in Israel-based companies contingent on defense contract awards, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The report noted Boeing agreed to work with local companies for at least 35 percent of the value of all contracts exceeding $1M with the […] More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will allow astronauts and researchers aboard the International Space Station to directly perform in-space analyses through its supercomputer. HPE said Thursday it will offer commercial high-performance computing services to experimenters on ISS following the completion of a one-year mission that sought to evaluate the Spaceborne Computer’s capacity to withstand zero gravity, radiation […] More
Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon, has said the firm has teamed up with a “dozen or so†companies across Silicon Valley to identify technology offerings that could be adapted for use by military clients and other customers, Aviation Today reported Thursday. “We’re making a big bet that we have to […] More
