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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Hear about the latest product and service offerings from the government contracting industry’s leading providers. The Government Technology News section highlights developments in aerospace, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, defense, C4ISR, cloud, hypersonics, and space.
The Space Development Agency has asked industry to submit executive summaries, proposal abstracts and full proposals for architecture concepts, technologies and systems that could lead to the development of new capability layers for the planned National Defense Space Architecture meant to address other emerging warfighting needs.
The U.S. Army received 115 production prototype units of a platform built by L3Harris Technologies based on its other electro-optical fire control systems and in support of the service branch's Next Generation Squad Weapon program.
CACI International has handed over to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory a laser communications transmitter designed to send data across 200 million miles at optimized speeds.
The U.S. Army has selected six companies to design, build, sustain, modernize and restore military and civilian facilities under a $76M multiple-award contract. The construction companies will compete for task orders under the firm-fixed-price contract and work to complete duties by Jan. 21, 2026, the Department of Defense said Friday.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency wants to identify market sources of a system that would help operators track incident management activities.
CISA said Friday in a SAM notice its threat hunting unit needs an incident management work tracking system with an encryption level of at least 140-2 in an effort to enhance the security of information technology enterprise of the federal government.
A General Atomics-made drone self-protection system demonstrated tracking and situational awareness functions as part of a project with U.S. Special Operations Command. The company said Friday its MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft used the new Self-Protection Pod to track infrared missile and radio frequency threats during a demonstration on Oct. 28 at Yuma Proving Grounds.
Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for the office of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and a previous Wash100 awardee, said the Department of Defense is determining ways on how to integrate the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements into Department of Homeland Security contracts, Nextgov reported Thursday.
The General Services Administration will monitor the implementation of artificial intelligence applications by utilizing AI under the $807 million Digital Innovation for GSA Infrastructure Technologies task order, which was awarded to NCI Information Systems. “Our artificial intelligence solutions have been adopted by our industry and federal customers, which has set us up for a very strong 2021," Paul Dillahay said.
A Dynetics-made unmanned aerial vehicle demonstrated autonomous and manual safety behaviors in a test flight series for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Gremlins Air Vehicle, with its corresponding recovery system, performed seven hours of flight in November, at Utah-based Dugway Proving Ground, Dynetics, a Leidos subsidiary, said Wednesday.
Medallia will deliver user experience technology to help the Department of Health and Human Services address health-related public sector issues and augment key services for HHS customers. The company said Thursday it offers a government-tailored platform that helps agencies determine how to improve citizen experience based on feedback data.
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the thrust, internal insulation and other performance aspects of a new 63-inch-diameter strap-on booster designed to propel United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur heavy-lift rocket. The company said Thursday its Graphite Epoxy Motor 63XL, a new variant of the GEM 63 booster, generated almost 449,000 pounds of thrust during a 90-second validation ground test in Promontory, Utah.
The Japanese coast guard has tested maritime surveillance tools developed by Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business aboard SeaGuardian remotely piloted aircraft of General Atomics' aeronautical systems segment.
