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  • Microsoft Upgrades Cross-Cloud Multitenant Security for Government Users
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    Microsoft Upgrades Cross-Cloud Multitenant Security for Government Users

    Microsoft has improved multitenant security for its government cloud customers, or GCC, including Department of Defense clients, to enable cross-cloud visibility and centralize security management.  With the enhancement, GCC High or DOD users can add remote GCC or commercial tenants to their View panel, Microsoft said in a blog published Tuesday. From just a single […] More

  • Advisory Firm growth[period] Hires Business Consultant Veteran Stacy Schwartz
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    Advisory Firm growth[period] Hires Business Consultant Veteran Stacy Schwartz

    Business consulting veteran Stacy Schwartz has been appointed as senior principal for public safety at advisory services provider growth[period]. Schwartz’s role involves advising clients on growth strategies, mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications, technology and public safety sectors, the Tyson’s Corner, Virginia-based company said in a LinkedIn post. Courtney Spaeth, growth[period]CEO, said Schwartz is “an […] More

  • Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service Receives DOD IL6 Authorization
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    Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service Receives DOD IL6 Authorization

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has given Azure OpenAI Service authorization to handle Department of Defense workloads at Impact Level 6, according to Douglas Phillips, corporate vice president at Microsoft. Benefits of Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service Phillips said in a blog post on Wednesday that Azure OpenAI Service forms part a platform offered by Microsoft, […] More

  • LeoLabs to Build New Mobile Radar for Enhanced Space Domain Awareness
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    LeoLabs to Build New Mobile Radar for Enhanced Space Domain Awareness

    LeoLabs will build this year the first units of the mobile S-band radar called Scout, which the company announced during the recent Space Symposium. According to LeoLabs CEO and Wash100 Award winner Tony Frazier, four to five Scouts will be built following keen interest from the Department of Defense, Air & Space Forces Magazine reported […] More

  • PTC Updates Cloud-Based Onshape CAD, PDM Platform
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    PTC Updates Cloud-Based Onshape CAD, PDM Platform

    PTC has added two product updates to its cloud-native Onshape computer-aided design and product data management platform: Onshape AI Advisor and Onshape Government. The new offerings exemplify the company’s goal of helping all customers’ product development, David Katzman, Onshape general manager in PTC’s Velocity Group, noted in the announcement of the variants’ launch Monday. “We’re […] More

  • BWXT Eyes Support Facility for US Uranium Enrichment Capability
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    BWXT Eyes Support Facility for US Uranium Enrichment Capability

    BWX Technologies has acquired a 97-acre site at the Horizon Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for its planned establishment of centrifuge manufacturing facility to support the U.S. uranium enrichment capability and defense missions. BWXT said in a statement Tuesday that the land acquisition indicates its intention to support the Department of Energy’s National […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Demos Precision Strike Missile Accuracy
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    Lockheed Martin Demos Precision Strike Missile Accuracy

    A new firing test has been completed to demonstrate the accuracy of the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM, that Lockheed Martin is producing under a U.S. Army contract worth about $4.94 billion, as part of the service branch’s modernization program.  The demonstration used for the first time the M270A2 multiple launch rocket system to carry […] More

  • LMI Appoints USAF Veteran Ryan McLean as Air Force Market CTO
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    LMI Appoints USAF Veteran Ryan McLean as Air Force Market CTO

    Federal government technology provider LMI has appointed U.S. Air Force veteran Ryan McLean, as its chief technology officer for the Air Force market. McLean’s experience in national security in software engineering, artificial intelligence and military command and control, will be an asset for rapid digital innovation in the Air Force market segment, the company said […] More

  • DISA Grants Snowflake Impact Level 5 Authorization
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    DISA Grants Snowflake Impact Level 5 Authorization

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted the artificial intelligence data cloud company Snowflake an Impact Level 5, or IL5, provisional authorization on AWS GovCloud US West. The clearance authorizes Snowflake service offerings to Department of Defense units and their industry mission partners on tasks that require the highest protection level for controlled unclassified information, […] More

  • GITAI Eyes DOD, NASA Contracts via New Subsidiary
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    GITAI Eyes DOD, NASA Contracts via New Subsidiary

    Space robotics startup GITAI USA has established a new unit focused on securing prime contracts for NASA and the Department of Defense projects. A trust company owns 51 percent of the subsidiary, GITAI Defense and Space, to meet some NASA and DOD solicitations’ requirement for prime contractors to be majority-owned by American citizens or permanent […] More

  • HPE Expands Aruba Networking Platform’s Capabilities
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    HPE Expands Aruba Networking Platform’s Capabilities

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has added new features to HPE Aruba Networking Central, its flagship artificial intelligence-powered network management platform. The updates provide “unprecedented network management deployment flexibility” for customers in the private and government sectors, Phil Mottram, HPE’s executive vice president and Aruba Networking general manager, said in the company’s Tuesday announcement on the platform’s […] More

  • Air Force Readies TPY-4 Radar Test Following Handover by Lockheed
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    Air Force Readies TPY-4 Radar Test Following Handover by Lockheed

    Government testing will begin on the first TPY-4 radar that Lockheed Martin has delivered under the U.S. Air Force program called 3DELRR, short for Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar. The first radar’s handover to the Air Force highlights Lockheed’s dedicated efforts to provide “cutting-edge, high-performance systems” that meet USAF’s evolving needs, Rick Cordaro, the company’s vice […] More