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  • Raytheon’s Investment Arm Backs Electric Propulsion System Developer H55
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    Raytheon’s Investment Arm Backs Electric Propulsion System Developer H55

    H55, a Swiss developer of electric propulsion and battery systems, has received a minority investment from Raytheon Technologies’ venture capital business unit.  The financing builds on the companies’ existing collaboration aimed at advancing the development of sustainable aviation technologies, Raytheon said Tuesday. RTX Ventures is currently in partnership with H55 for the development and demonstration […] More

  • CBP Expands Analytics Software Contract With Seerist
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    CBP Expands Analytics Software Contract With Seerist

    The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has extended its mission support contract with Seerist‘s federal business unit for another five years, building on the software company’s efforts to assist the agency during the COVID-19 pandemic. Seerist Federal was granted a $3.8 million renewal contract to continue supporting CBP’s various intelligence and operational missions and to […] More

  • Palantir Added to DOD IL6 Accredited List of Cloud Services
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    Palantir Added to DOD IL6 Accredited List of Cloud Services

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted Impact Level 6 provisional authorization to Palantir Technologies’ Federal Cloud Service. IL6 accreditation allows Palantir to add a secret region to its cloud platform, supporting Top Secret defense and national security missions of the Department of Defense and other federal entities, the company said Monday. PFCS, which met […] More

  • Defense Agencies Look to Commercial Tech to Develop Standardized EV Battery
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    Defense Agencies Look to Commercial Tech to Develop Standardized EV Battery

    The Defense Innovation Unit and other agencies under the Department of Defense have teamed up to drive the development of a standardized battery system using commercial technologies to power future ground vehicles and other military platforms. DIU said Thursday the Jumpstart for Advanced Battery Standardization project involves the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the […] More

  • General Atomics Hands Over Protector RG Mk1 Drone to UK
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    General Atomics Hands Over Protector RG Mk1 Drone to UK

    The U.K. defense ministry has accepted General Atomics‘ handover of the first Protector RG Mk1 remotely piloted aircraft that was developed by its aeronautical systems business. The official event took place after General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and the British agency completed acceptance test procedures for the drone in El Mirage, California, both parties announced in […] More

  • Woolpert Awarded $50M USACE Contract for Bathymetric & Lidar Data Collection
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    Woolpert Awarded $50M USACE Contract for Bathymetric & Lidar Data Collection

    Woolpert has secured a $49.9 million contract to help a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers center meet coastal data and imagery requirements of other military and government organizations. The three-year, firm-fixed-price contract will involve technical assistance, geospatial operations and sensor maintenance as part of coastal mapping and charting missions of USACE’s Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry […] More

  • Navy OKs New Northrop Navigation System for Fleet Installation
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    Navy OKs New Northrop Navigation System for Fleet Installation

    The U.S. Navy has approved the installation of Northrop Grumman‘s Electronic Chart Display and Information System into the service branch’s ships and submarines, beginning with USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. Navy ECDIS was deemed by the Navy’s Operational Test and Evaluation Force as “operationally suitable, operationally effective and cyber survivable” as […] More

  • Will Grannis: Google Offers Army Access to Collaboration Tools
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    Will Grannis: Google Offers Army Access to Collaboration Tools

    Google will collaborate with Accenture‘s federal arm and Sada Systems to help the U.S. Army deploy a suite of cloud-based collaboration applications for as many as 250,000 soldiers. Will Grannis, CEO of Google’s public sector unit, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday the Army’s Workspace implementation project is one of the first collaborative efforts […] More

  • Pyramid Analytics Launches Government-Focused Business Unit
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    Pyramid Analytics Launches Government-Focused Business Unit

    Business intelligence software developer Pyramid Analytics has launched a new division focused on providing U.S. government agencies with data analytics services. The new Pyramid Federal Business Practice will be led by Joe Fritsch, director of federal sales at the company and former federal account executive at a VMware segment, Pyramid said Tuesday. The business unit […] More

  • Boeing, Firefly Subsidiaries to Help USSF Conduct ‘Responsive Space’ Demo
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    Boeing, Firefly Subsidiaries to Help USSF Conduct ‘Responsive Space’ Demo

    Subsidiaries of Boeing and Firefly Aerospace have received separate task orders to provide systems and services for a U.S. Space Force mission with the goal of demonstrating rapid payload deployment to low Earth orbit. Millennium Space Systems will produce the spacecraft and sensor hardware and ground infrastructure while Firefly Space Transport Services will supply the […] More

  • Army Vet David Petraeus Joins Advisory Board of IT Security Company Semperis
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    Army Vet David Petraeus Joins Advisory Board of IT Security Company Semperis

    David Petraeus, former CIA director and nearly four-decade U.S. Army veteran, has been appointed as a strategic adviser at Semperis, a company that develops enterprise identity protection and cyber resilience products for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As a member of the Semperis advisory board, the retired Army general will provide guidance on enhancing identity threat […] More