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    Intel-UC San Diego Team Joins DARPA Computer Security Program

    Intel has been selected to participate in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program to develop cryptography tools for safeguarding integrated computing systems from cyberthreats. The company said Wednesday it will work with the University of California, San Diego to test and demonstrate the Cryptographic Capability Computing memory safety mechanism as part of the Hardening […] More

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    Leidos’ Gerry Fasano Honored With 4th Consecutive Wash100 Award for Leadership in Defense IT Services & C5ISR Mission Support

    Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Gerry Fasano, president of the defense group at Leidos, a winner of the 2023 Wash100 Award for his leadership over the company’s continued efforts to bring technological capabilities and services to the national defense mission. This marks his fourth consecutive selection to the annual list of the government contracting sector’s top […] More

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    Simba Chain Books USAF Award to Advance Blockchain App Development

    Simba Chain has received a $30 million strategic funding increase from the U.S. Air Force to develop blockchain tools for supply chain management applications. The company said Tuesday the investment will be used to scale up the development of Simba Blocks enterprise platform for enabling customers to build and deploy blockchain applications. As part of […] More

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    CAES Tapped to Develop Advanced Electronics for Air Force; Dave Young Quoted

    CAES has been selected to continue providing advanced electronics in support of the U.S. Air Force as part of the Extremely Wideband Radio Frequency Spectrum Operations System. Under the program, CAES will design and develop dual system-in-package circuit card assemblies as well as help enhance the performance of the microelectronics-based wideband digital antenna array, the […] More

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    KBR Introduces Asset Management Offering for Public, Private Sector Clients; Byron Bright Quoted

    KBR has introduced a framework that employs cloud-based technology for government and commercial customers to manage the life cycle of their assets. Asset Ikigai is designed to combine analytics, processes and data into a single asset management platform and compliant with International Organization for Standardization 55001, the company said Monday. Customers can apply the framework […] More

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    GM Defense-American Rheinmetall Team Selected for Army Truck Prototype Development Competition

    American Rheinmetall Vehicles and General Motors‘ defense subsidiary have teamed up to develop vehicle prototypes for a multi-stage industry competition to replace the U.S. Army’s family of heavy tactical trucks. The two companies jointly proposed an Americanized version of Rheinmetall’s militarized HX3-series truck for the first phase of the Common Tactical Truck program, GM Defense […] More

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    Steve Gizinski on Inmarsat’s Satcom Capabilities & Space Force’s Requirements

    Steve Gizinski, president of Inmarsat’s government business segment, said the company is well-positioned to deliver integrated satellite communications capabilities to meet the U.S. Space Force’s network requirements in support of multi-service operations worldwide. Gizinski wrote in a blog post published Friday that Inmarsat developed a strategic framework on how its portfolio of multi-orbit, multi-band satcom […] More

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    9 Space Technologies Selected for NASA’s Commercial Flight Test Program

    Nine technologies have been selected to participate in a NASA program aimed at demonstrating advanced space exploration and Earth observation capabilities for the agency and commercial customers.  The selected space platforms will be tested aboard suborbital rocket-powered systems, high-altitude balloons and parabolic aircraft in space-like environments in preparation for a potential launch into orbit, NASA […] More

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    Air Force Receives Navigation Technology Satellite-3 From L3Harris

    L3Harris Technologies has delivered a positioning, navigation and timing satellite technology to the Air Force Research Laboratory in preparation for the spacecraft’s launch in late 2023. The Navigation Technology Satellite-3 payload is now stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, where it will undergo functional and performance evaluation prior to integration into Northrop […] More

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    GIT to Deliver Iridium Certus Broadband Service to Government Customers; Scott Scheimreif Quoted

    Iridium Communications has authorized GIT Satellite Communications to deliver the Certus global satellite broadband connection service to U.S. government customers. GIT said Thursday it has expanded its voice and data communications offerings for the federal government to include access to Iridium’s global L-band broadband and mid-band connectivity. Scott Scheimreif, executive vice president of government programs […] More

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    Microsoft Announces General Availability of Office 365 Secret Cloud Platform

    Microsoft‘s new cloud environment is now generally available to host classified data for the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and federal civilian agencies. Office 365 Government Secret provides a set of cloud-based productivity, compliance, collaboration and security tools that can handle military and government data at Impact Level 6, Paul Lorimer, corporate vice president […] More

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    6 Companies Awarded NASA Innovations, Partnership Support Services Contract

    Six companies have been selected to provide a range of innovations and partnership support services to multiple NASA centers under a $47.5 million contract. Under the blanket purchase agreement, the contractors will assist in program operations management, organizational change management, strategic planning and execution, stakeholder engagement and outreach and helpdesk operations, NASA said Thursday.  The […] More