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Space Systems Command has debuted a center in Chantilly, Virginia, to encourage collaboration among companies and government agencies to accelerate the delivery of commercial space systems to the military. SSC said Tuesday the Commercial Space Marketplace for Innovation and Collaboration center, or COSMIC, is a partnership between the command and Virginia Tech Applied Research Corp. […] More
Several Virginia-based defense, aerospace and government services companies landed spots on the 2023 Fortune 1000 list, which ranks the 1,000 largest U.S. public and private corporations by total revenue, Virginia Business reported Monday. Boeing and Raytheon Technologies, previously based in Chicago and Massachusetts, respectively, relocated their headquarters to Arlington County in 2022. New to the […] More
Ricardo Lorenzo, chief technology officer at Parsons, said the company has integrated artificial intelligence into every aspect of its business platforms and culture and considers AI as a “force-multiplier” behind its innovative efforts and technology platforms across its federal and critical infrastructure segments. “We have embedded AI as a core pillar of our engineering approach: […] More
A new Deltek analysis shows that the U.S. Air Force’s spending on other transaction agreements for cybersecurity platforms dropped by 15 percent from $134 million in fiscal year 2021 to $113 million in FY 2022. FY 2022 spending level remains 30 percent above the service branch’s FY 2020 level, which stands at $86 million, John […] More
Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of public sector Earth intelligence at Maxar Technologies, said the company’s work on the U.S. Army’s One World Terrain program, a key component of the Synthetic Training Environment, seeks to modernize soldier training using geospecific data, C4ISRNET reported Monday. In February, Maxar secured the Phase 3b award […] More
Rob Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions, said federal agencies looking to leverage data to achieve missions faster should push for the commoditization of data. “Providing everyone the ability to sort and analyze data regardless of their role within the organization will provide great success for government objectives,” Carey, a previous Wash100 awardee, wrote in […] More
Noel Hara, vice president and chief technology officer for the public sector at NTT DATA Services, said artificial intelligence plays a key role in several law enforcement areas, including crowd management and school safety, InformationWeek reported Thursday. “AI will understand how many people are expected at a location and alert officials to a variance,” Hara […] More
NASA and Boeing have decided to delay the first crewed test flight of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station to take time to address the safety issues with the capsule’s wiring and parachutes. The space agency said Thursday Starliner was targeted to lift off in July on a United Launch Alliance Atlas […] More
Siemens‘ business Mendix has secured “In Process” designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-agnostic platform meant to help government agency customers develop low-code enterprise applications. Siemens Government Technologies manages the Mendix Cloud for Government platform, which runs on AWS GovCloud (US), Mendix said Thursday. The National Institute for Occupational Safety […] More
Albers Aerospace will open a new facility in Texas under an agreement with the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation, Amarillo Globe-News reported Wednesday. “This morning, we are excited to announce our formal acceptance of the incentive package to move the innovative technologies business unit to Amarillo,” said John Albers, CEO of Albers Aerospace. “My goal is […] More
A Get SAT-built airborne terminal has received type approval from Inmarsat for use on the latter’s Global Xpress Ka-band network. Get SAT’s Milli SAT H LW GX is a portable satellite communications user terminal that comes with software and electronics and is designed to provide communications capabilities for military aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles, Inmarsat […] More
Jacobs has secured a contract from the U.S. Space Force and North American Aerospace Defense Command to provide digital transformation support services. The company said Friday it has advanced the adoption of the DevSecOps approach and data platforms as it helps NORAD and the Space Force transform legacy systems into a virtual environment that includes […] More
