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is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
Maxar Technologies has received a license from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide non-Earth imagery service to monitor the space environment for orbital debris and other satellites and commercially offer that data, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar and a 2022 Wash100 awardee, said the company plans to use […] More
NVIDIA and Booz Allen Hamilton have teamed up to offer to public and private sector clients a graphic processing unit-accelerated artificial intelligence cybersecurity platform called NVIDIA Morpheus. Booz Allen has employed Morpheus to develop Cyber Precog, a GPU-accelerated software platform that supports the deployment of AI models and modular pipelines at the edge and facilitates […] More
Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business will now transition the Glide Phase Interceptor to the preliminary design phase following the completion of the Systems Requirements Review – Prototype. GPI is designed to provide the U.S. and its allies with a regional defense layer against missile threats by intercepting hypersonic weapons during the glide phase, Raytheon […] More
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force will launch the B-21 Raider bomber in the first week of December at the company’s facility in Palmdale, California. Tom Jones, corporate vice president and president of Northrop’s aeronautics systems, said in a statement published Tuesday the company is proud of its partnership with the Air Force as […] More
Textron’s Bell subsidiary has selected Sierra Nevada Corp. to help design and develop mission systems for its proposed high-speed vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Bell was one of the 11 companies selected by the U.S. Air Force in January to further develop aircraft concepts as part of the AFWERX HSVTOL Concept Challenge, a collaborative effort […] More
The U.S. Navy and Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business deployed two StormBreaker guided test vehicles from an F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft and found that the weapon system carried out the required flight behaviors during the test. The deployed weapon systems reached a speed of .9 Mach and completed a seven-shot rate capture series […] More
A new Information Services Group report has found that U.S. state and local government agencies and related public sector organizations recognize the need to modernize their information technology systems and advance cybersecurity to meet the increasing demand for online services and remote work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ISG said Thursday the report showed […] More
Allen Badeau, chief technology officer of Empower AI, said there are three guidelines government agencies should consider when creating a human-centered artificial intelligence strategy to implement AI in support of the federal workforce and one is assessing the level of data maturity. “Once agencies realize a baseline of data maturity, they can pilot basic AI […] More
The Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement will sponsor a security assessment of Paperless Innovations’ cloud software-as-a-service offering under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Actus is a cloud-based SaaS platform that ICE intends to use for its system designed to automate purchase card approvals, Paperless Innovations said Wednesday. Mike Tocci, president […] More
Clint Crosier, director of aerospace and satellite at Amazon Web Services, discussed how the federal government and industry look for ways to improve connectivity in space using cloud computing, which he said has unique capabilities ranging from artificial intelligence to data analytics. He said during a fireside chat aired by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce […] More
Paul Dillahay, president and CEO of Empower AI and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said artificial intelligence is making an impact on missions of the Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies and service desk is one of the areas that is seeing the benefit of AI adoption. He told Government Matters in a video […] More
Global investment firm Carlyle completed its acquisition of ManTech International and took the government services contractor private through an all-cash transaction worth approximately $4.2 billion. ManTech said Wednesday it stopped trading on Nasdaq following the completion of the deal and that it will continue to operate through its Herndon, Virginia, headquarters. Stockholders at ManTech approved […] More
