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General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business demonstrated its MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft during a military free-fall high-altitude training exercise of the U.S. Army’s 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) held in January. The company said Thursday the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle conducted remote monitoring of the exercise, tracked the jumps and offered critical overwatch capabilities for the […] More
The Department of Defense has purchased additional tactical radio systems from Silvus Technologies to help warfighters communicate in spectrum contested environments. The Los Angeles-based technology developer said Monday it received a second purchase order to deliver another batch of StreamCaster Mobile Ad Hoc Network radio systems to U.S. troops in an effort to enhance connectivity […] More
Gerry Fasano, president of the defense group at Leidos, has been selected to receive a Wash100 Award for 2022, the third consecutive year he’s been inducted into Executive Mosaic’s annual list of the most significant contributors to government contracting industry activity. Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson noted Fasano’s selection to the Wash100 last year as a recognition […] More
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI and National Security Agency have released a joint advisory with international partners in the U.K. and Australia, warning of the growing threat of ransomware globally. In the 2021 Trends Show Increased Globalized Threat of Ransomware report, the national security authorities revealed that ransomware groups use phishing attacks, […] More
U.K.-based autonomous underwater vehicle maker ecoSUB Robotics has partnered with an additive manufacturing service provider to develop components of a submarine intended for deep-sea monitoring missions, 3D Printing Industry reported Wednesday. The ecoSUB-3DPRINTUK partnership aims to produce submarine parts that can operate approximately 2,500 meters below sea level to meet the evolving marine technology requirements […] More
The U.S. Navy has performed the second live-fire test of a Northrop Grumman-developed air-to-surface missile system designed to detect, locate and target land-based air defense radar systems at extended ranges. Northrop said Monday the AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range was launched from F/A-18 Super Hornet jet at the Point Mugu Sea Range in […] More
Rocket Lab expects to complete a new Littleton, Colorado facility later this year for space technology production and mission operations later this year as part of expansion initiatives. The Space Systems Complex has 40,000 square feet of office, laboratory and manufacturing space and is close to an existing 15,000-square-foot company facility, Rocket Lab said Wednesday. […] More
Nine cloud service offerings from Oracle have secured provisional authority to operate at the high level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board authorized the latest batch of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services designed for government agencies to enable them to review log data, monitor updates and […] More
NASA, Rigetti Computing and the Universities Space Research Association will continue to collaborate on the second phase of a quantum technology research and development initiative funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. USRA said Thursday it was awarded a grant to extend work on DARPA’s Optimization with Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices program, which […] More
The Missile Defense Agency has initiated a mentor-protege program and is looking to expand the participation of small businesses in the research and development of advanced technologies meant to expand the U.S. military’s radar and ballistic missile defense systems. According to a broad agency announcement posted Monday on Sam.gov, the MDA Office of Small Business […] More
Stratolaunch has completed the third flight test of its Roc carrier aircraft that will support the launch of autonomous, rocket-powered hypersonic testbed vehicles, dubbed Talon-A. Roc landed at Mojave Air and Space Port in California on Sunday four hours and 23 minutes after it took off and reached an altitude of more than 23,500 feet, […] More
Sagar Deshpande, a licensed professional civil engineer and surveyor with more than 20-year industry experience, has been appointed to serve as a senior geospatial technology manager at Dewberry. He will be based at Dewberry’s office in Fairfax, Virginia, and will help manage remote sensing operations and lidar production, the professional services firm said Monday. Prior […] More
