Government Technology
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.
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State Dept Clears Morocco’s FMS Request for Boeing-Built Harpoon Block II Missiles
The State Department has approved a potential $62M foreign military sale of Boeing-built air launched missile systems and associated equipment to Morocco. The possible deal includes procurement of 10 AGM-84L Harpoon Block II missiles, containers, spares, repair parts and test and support equipment.
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Microsoft Offers AccountGuard Threat Notification Service to Health Care Providers
Microsoft has made its threat notification service available for free to hospitals, clinics, medical device, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, clinicians and other health care providers offering front-line services during the COVID-19 pandemic. AccountGuard is designed to monitor threat actors targeting personal email accounts and enterprise mailboxes and send alerts to users to help them counter cyber attacks, Tom Burt, corporate vice president for customer security and trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday.
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Cisco Announces Business Resiliency Program; Chuck Robbins Quoted
Cisco will offer $2.5B in financing through a new program to provide customers and partners access to technology platforms needed to ensure business continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Business Resiliency Program will help clients manage their cash flow during the crisis by allowing them to defer 95 percent of the cost of a new Cisco hardware, software or service until January 2021, the company said Tuesday.
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NASA Greenlights Planetary Defense Integration Phase With JHU APL
Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has received approval to continue on with a planetary defense program under NASA.
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NSSA Lays Out Acquisition, Fiscal Policy Proposals to Protect Space Industrial Base
The National Security Space Association has released its recommendations to help mitigate the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the space industrial base, SpaceNews reported Monday. NSSA’s recommendations are classified into three areas: fiscal policy and funding; contracting and acquisition policy; workforce security and personnel development.
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Inmarsat Provides Comms Support for Far South Expedition
Inmarsat Government has delivered mobile communications services to help an expedition team study the South Orkney Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula.
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EY, Qualtrics, SAP Partner to Support Gov’t COVID-19 Activities
Ernst and Young, has partnered with Qualtrics and SAP to help government entities address the COVID-19 outbreak.
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SAP NS2, Ossia Form End-to-End IoT Partnership; Kyle Rice Quoted
SAP National Security Services and Ossia have partnered to help intelligence, defense and industry clients manage internet-of-things devices. SAP NS2 will combine its cloud offerings, SAP Digital Core Software Extensions and hyperscaler integration services with Ossia’s Cota Real Wireless Power technology to support customers in fielding sensors and smart platforms designed to collect data and uncover insights, according to a joint statement released Thursday.
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Rocket Lab Conducts Mid-Air Recovery Demo for Electron Vehicle Stage; Peter Beck Quoted
Rocket Lab employed a test article to demonstrate a mid-air recovery maneuver for the Electron launch vehicle's first stage.
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DOE Allots New Funds for AI Research
The Department of Energy intends to invest $30M in research efforts on artificial intelligence and machine learning for system management and science projects.
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Pulse Secure Offers Cloud-Based Remote Access Tool on AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Pulse Secure customers may now access a remote access tool built to enable secure viewing of applications and resources through Amazon Web Services' GovCloud (US) regions.