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The U.S. Army has used Northrop Grumman-built command and control, radar and space ground systems in a series of exercises aimed to demonstrate joint force connectivity for multidomain operations. Northrop said Wednesday the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System, AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar and the Joint Tactical Ground Station helped the service branch […] More

A suite of software as a service offerings from cloud platform provider eGain has received authorization at moderate impact level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The Sunnyvale, California-based company said Wednesday its cloud service is now listed in the FedRAMP Marketplace and is meant to help agencies enhance their customer experience through […] More

Law firm Sheppard Mullin has created a business group tasked to guide companies from all sectors in working either directly or indirectly with the federal government. The newly established Government Business Group will provide customers with attorneys who have experience in dealing with government contracts and the aerospace and defense industry to help them navigate […] More

Riverside Research was added to a National Science Foundation-led consortium that works to drive hardware security development through cross-sector partnerships. The not-for-profit organization said Wednesday its membership in the Center for Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust or CHEST Consortium allows it to support programs of the Air Force Research Laboratory, whose work spans […] More

Alex Whitworth, director of sales at Carahsoft Technology, said companies should review their security practices to identify and address gaps as the Department of Defense is finalizing the second version of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Whitworth wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that DOD’s CMMC 2.0 model has three maturity levels that […] More

Raytheon Technologies demonstrated a new capability that enables operators with minimal training to control a large swarm of autonomous air and ground vehicles during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency field exercise. An operator managed a combination of 130 physical autonomous platforms and 30 simulated drones in both indoor and outdoor urban settings at DARPA’s […] More

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies business, has been tapped by Boeing to build a modern electric power generation system for the U.S. Air Force’s B-52 bombers. EPGS will consist of eight generators to deliver electricity to B-52 systems and other upcoming upgrades while using less engine power than the aircraft’s current 70-year-old electric power technology, […] More