Technology

The U.S. Air Force has completed a series of tests for Northrop Grumman’s AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite, designed to enhance U.S. and international F-16 fleets’ survivability in hostile electromagnetic spectrum environments. Northrop said Wednesday that IVEWS demonstrated the ability to detect, identify and counter advanced radio frequency threats while safely operating alongside other F-16 systems. […] More

Iridium Communications, a mobile satellite communications company, officially launched the Iridium Certus Global Maritime Distress and Safety System, or GMDSS, on Aug. 3. The company said Tuesday Iridium Certus GMDSS will work to integrate distress alert, safety voice, maritime safety information, long-range identification and tracking and ship security alert system features into a single terminal. The […] More

The Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have awarded General Dynamics Information Technology $100 million in funding to build a new high-performance computer. Called Rhea, the upcoming HPC is expected to advance weather prediction, NOAA said on Tuesday. Michael Morgan, assistant secretary of commerce for environmental observation and prediction, revealed that […] More

Bryon Kroger, founder and CEO of Rise8, said implementing the continuous authority to operate process could enable military and government agencies to expedite software development and delivery within days or hours to support critical missions, Air and Space Forces Magazine reported Aug. 12. Under the cATO process, developers replace traditional stability and security reviews with […] More

Metron and Cellula Robotics have presented to their customers the defense and commercial applications of the new uncrewed underwater vehicle developed under a partnership they announced in March. In the capability demonstrations, two versions of the partnership’s ANCC+Solus UUV performed in-water missions to demonstrate their fully autonomous and long-range capabilities, Metron said Tuesday. The demos, […] More

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the capability of its digital engineering ecosystem to reduce the time and costs associated with designing, building and testing aircraft on Scaled Composites’ Model 437 Vanguard. On Thursday, Northrop said the multi-mission aircraft flew for the first time using wings developed through the Digital Pathfinder project. The Digital Pathfinder is a […] More

Chris Coligado, executive vice president and federal market lead at Smoothstack, said cybersecurity, cloud computing, software development and DevOps, data analytics, project management, network administration and artificial intelligence and machine learning are among the top information technology skills that are needed in the federal sector in 2025. In an article published on the company’s website, […] More

Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, a division of Thales Defense & Security, has launched its Luna T-Series Tablet Hardware Security Module designed to protect data, applications and cryptographic keys in an offline environment. Its design works to provide a wide range of functions, such as the protection of public key infrastructure root keys, Thales said. Users […] More