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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ULA to Launch Two Space Force Satellites With Unflown Atlas 5 Rocket Variant
United Launch Alliance will use an unflown variant of its Atlas 5 rocket to bring into orbit two surveillance satellites for the Space Force by the fourth quarter of 2020, Spaceflight Now reported Tuesday.
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Lockheed’s Work on Air Force ARRW Hypersonic Weapons Program to Proceed
The U.S. Air Force decided to drop the Hypersonic Conventional Strike Weapon program and opted to advance work on the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon initiative amid budget pressures, Defense News reported Monday. Lockheed Martin is working on the two hypersonic development programs under two contracts awarded in 2018.
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Kevin Kelly: CACI Puts Research Focus on Multimission Platforms
Kevin Kelly, president of the national security and innovative solutions sector at CACI International, said warfighters are inundated with one-off systems that demand network, storage and battery and the company seeks to address that with multimission platforms, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.
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Space Force Plans Commercial-Military Satellite Architecture Integration; Inmarsat Government’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Quoted
The Space Force seeks to ensure global connectivity for U.S. warfighter communications through the development of an integrated technology that could support both commercial and military satellite systems, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.
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Raytheon Eyes Software-Based Approach to Transform Air Traffic Mgmt
Raytheon is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to develop a modern, software-based approach for aircraft tracking, Avionics International reported Friday.
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ULA Launches Rocket for NASA-ESA Solar Mission
United Launch Alliance has launched a new multinational space mission that aims to support observations and studies of the Sun.
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SpaceX Intends to Spin Off, Take Public Space Internet Business; Gwynne Shotwell Quoted
SpaceX plans to spin off and launch an initial public offering for its space internet subsidiary Starlink, Bloomberg reported Friday. “Right now, we are a private company, but Starlink is the right kind of business that we can go ahead and take public,†Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a three-time Wash100 award winner, said Thursday at a JPMorgan Chase & Co.-hosted event in Miami.
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Federal Highway Administration Seeks AI, Blockchain, Materials Science Projects
The Federal Highway Administration has issued a broad agency announcement for research projects on highway design, planning, construction, management, operation and maintenance.
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Carahsoft to Distribute Appsian Data Security Tools to Gov’t Clients
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Appsian’s enterprise resource planning data security products across the public sector.