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    Viasat Unveils Black ICE Software Defined Radios for Government Customers; Matt Wissler Quoted

    Viasat has introduced a family of software defined radio modem platforms designed to enable military users to securely transmit data and meet beyond line-of-sight communications requirements in support of mission-critical operations. The Black ICE SDR product line supports OpenAMIP for antenna management and Xilinx and Intel Field Programmable Gate Array architectures in Ka- and L-bands, […] More

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    IBM-NASA Team’s Geospatial AI Foundation Model Now Accessible via Hugging Face Platform

    Watsonx.ai, a geospatial foundation model IBM built from NASA’s satellite data, was made available on open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in an effort to expand use of the space agency’s Earth science data for geospatial intelligence and advance climate-related innovation. Sriram Raghavan, vice president of IBM Research AI, said in a statement published Thursday, […] More

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    Harish Luthra on SAP NS2-Microsoft Partnership for Secure Cloud Deployment

    Harish Luthra, CEO of SAP National Security Services, said SAP NS2’s partnership with Microsoft enables the deployment of software on cloud environments of government and public sector agencies without compromising the security of mission-critical workloads. Microsoft and SAP have created a secure cloud model that helps government and public sector agencies transform their mission-critical data […] More

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    Carahsoft Agrees to Distribute Sylabs’ Container Runtime Software to Public Sector; Michael Adams Quoted

    Carahsoft Technology has agreed to market an enterprise-wide advanced container runtime software developed by Sylabs to public sector customers. Sylabs’ Singularity suite and other products are made available through Carahsoft’s reseller channels and government contract vehicles, according to a joint statement from the companies. The Singularity open-source container technology provides additional security in deploying performance-intensive […] More

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    HII Lays Keel for Navy’s 29th Virginia-Class Attack Submarine

    HII‘s Newport News Shipbuilding division has laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s 29th Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. The keel authentication commences the construction of the future USS Oklahoma (SSN 802), the first Virginia-class ship in Block V configuration and the 14th vessel to be delivered by NNS, HII said Wednesday. Fast-attack submarines are employed […] More

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    Jennifer Nelson Named Finch AI COO

    Jennifer Nelson, a national security industry leader, has assumed the role of chief operating officer at Finch AI. She will oversee business development, sales and marketing, customer engagement and product development and management operations as COO, Finch AI said Wednesday. Nelson most recently served as general manager of national security at Amazon Web Services. The […] More

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    CACI to Provide Network Exploitation & Analysis Under $2.7B NSA Award; John Mengucci Quoted

    CACI International has booked a potential $2.7 billion National Security Agency award for network and exploitation analysis. Activities under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will support NSA foreign intelligence and cybersecurity missions, CACI announced from its Reston, Virginia headquarters on Thursday. “We are honored to assist the NSA as it confronts existing and future threats against national security,” […] More

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    DLH to Support NIH Heart Institute’s IT Modernization via $85M BPA; Zachary Parker Quoted

    DLH will help a National Institutes of Health division modernize information technology operations through the company’s position on a five-year, $85 million blanket purchase agreement. The company said Wednesday projects under the BPA are centered on agile development, data sciences and health IT modernization at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. “This award provides […] More

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    Leonardo Constructing Aircraft Support Center in Florida

    Leonardo‘s helicopters business is establishing a 113,000 sq. ft. facility at Whiting Aviation Park in Milton, Florida, to accommodate repair and overhaul, transmission work on aircraft components. The company said Monday the Leonardo Helicopters Florida Support Center will have four large hangar bays, Dynamic Test Bench, full-sized paint booth, tooling and equipment as well as […] More

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    Northrop’s Antares Rocket Launches to Space for ISS Resupply Mission

    Northrop Grumman‘s Antares rocket launched to space for the company’s 19th commercial resupply service mission to the International Space Station, Space.com reported Tuesday. Antares lifted off Tuesday from Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, carrying the space agency’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft to bring hardware, science experiments and crew supplies to ISS. Dubbed the […] More

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    Hypori Tech Cleared for Army’s Enterprise Mobility Program; Jared Shepard Quoted

    The U.S. Army has cleared a Hypori virtual device for use by service members when they access protected military networks, data and applications. Active-duty and reserve personnel can utilize Hypori Halo as government-furnished equipment under the Army’s Remote Capable Workforce program, the company said Tuesday. Jared Shepard, president and CEO of Hypori, noted the company […] More

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    Collins Aerospace Demos AI-Enabled Communications, Cross-Domain Tech at Northern Edge Exercise

    RTX’s Collins Aerospace business demonstrated the capability of its artificial intelligence-based communications systems, gateway technology and cross-domain platform to link coalition partners to a data network during the second round of a U.S. Indo-Pacific Command multinational exercise at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. “Our automated communications powered by AI securely provided mission data to […] More