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The Boeing-built CST-100 Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth Wednesday by landing at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, marking the completion of the vehicle’s unmanned Orbital Flight Test-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA. “With the completion of OFT-2, we will incorporate lessons learned and continue working to prepare […] More
A Raytheon Technologies business will develop an end-to-end system designed to help intelligence community analysts extract mission-relevant semantic data under the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Better Extraction from Text Toward Enhanced Retrieval program. The Cross-Lingual Extraction for Versatile and Effective Retrieval system to be developed by Raytheon Intelligence & Space could enable English-only speakers […] More
The General Services Administration is soliciting questions, recommendations and comments on a draft performance work statement for the Ascend blanket purchase agreement that seeks to meet the common cloud requirements of defense and federal civilian agencies. GSA plans to award the Ascend BPA through a phased approach as part of the agency’s Cloud Marketplace vision, […] More
Clint Crosier, director of aerospace and satellite solutions at Amazon Web Services, said AWS and AlchemistX selected 10 startups for a four-week program meant to provide mentoring, technical and business development support to help such companies further develop their space technology platforms. The AWS Space Accelerator, which started the application process in March, will kick […] More
An annual Deltek study has found that government contractors consider finding top talent as the primary challenge for their information technology departments over the next 12 months, followed by compliance with government requirements and implementation of new software systems. Deltek surveyed 654 contractor personnel working in defense, IT, professional services, energy, engineering, research, transportation and […] More
Spire Global will provide weather forecasts at 10 aerostat sites under a potential five-year subcontract with TCOM. The numerical weather prediction subcontract includes notification alerts for TCOM aerostat site operators, weather training for site managers and a contact center providing weather information, Spire said Monday. Spire operates a constellation of over 100 satellites offering weather […] More
The Boeing-built CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed its docking to the International Space Station Friday as part of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission under a partnership with NASA. The reusable spacecraft reached the ISS a day after it launched atop a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, Boeing […] More
Todd Gustafson, president of HP‘s federal arm, said there are three things federal agencies should consider as they develop their information technology investment strategy to support government employees in a hybrid work environment during the post-pandemic era and one of those is looking at the workforce. “First is just talk about personas. Who is your […] More
Brig. Gen. Heath Collins, program executive officer for weapons, said the U.S. Air Force is preparing to select a contractor to develop a hypersonic cruise missile by the end of September, Breaking Defense reported Friday. “Later this summer or later fall, given all this data coming together, will be when we would be looking to […] More
A Boeing-built reusable spacecraft carrying more than 800 pounds of crew supplies and cargo lifted off Thursday as part of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission to the International Space Station under a partnership with NASA. The CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launched aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket from a space launch complex at Cape […] More
A Sarcos Technology and Robotics subsidiary will develop collaborative sensing algorithms under a contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. Sarcos Defense will build a tool that would enable the Department of Defense to use unmanned aircraft systems, unmanned aerial vehicles and other autonomous and semi-autonomous platforms to detect, classify and track time-critical objects […] More
HighPoint will provide software and application development support for the Federal Communications Commission under a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The IDIQ contract also includes the delivery of project and program management services, extreme programming and documentation support to the FCC’s office of the chief information officer, HighPoint said Thursday. The company will help the FCC and […] More
