Northrop, Army Intercept Missiles During Battle Command System Test
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the use of a U.S. Army integrated air and missile defense system against two simultaneous targets.
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Google to Help Postal Service Manage Customer Experience With Cloud Tech
The U.S. Postal Service has partnered with Google Cloud in an effort to decrease customer wait times in call centers, FedScoop reported Thursday. The company offers Diologflow Enterprise Edition, a tool suite designed to provide artificial intelligence virtual agents that could help agency customers access services via websites, texts and calls.
Keith Kingston: General Dynamics Moves to Sustainment Phase With MUOS Satcom System
Keith Kingston, director of satellite ground systems and operations for space and intelligence systems at General Dynamics, said the company is now entering the sustainment phase of a certain defense satellite system, Phoenix Business Journal reported Tuesday.
Lockheed Tests Precision Strike Missile for Army
Lockheed Martin has completed a test of a new long-range missile geared to address the U.S. Army’s precision requirements.
T-Rex Ranks First on Bloomberg’s Federal Cloud Provider List
Bloomberg Government has named T-Rex Solutions the federal civilian market’s top cloud service provider in a recent report on federal information technology.
Microsoft Unveils Azure-Based Blockchain Data Mgmt Offering
Microsoft has launched a new cloud-based offering that uses artificial intelligence to handle blockchain transaction data, Coindesk reported Friday.
Booz Allen Supports AWS On-Premise Data Service
Booz Allen Hamilton has unveiled offerings designed to support on-premise Amazon Web Services workloads under a partnership between the two firms.
Smartsheet Gov Now Available on AWS Marketplace
Smartsheet, a provider of enterprise management platforms, is now fully offering a government-tailored version of its product on the Amazon Web Services marketplace.
ViON’s Rob Davies on Multicloud Strategy, Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON and a former Wash100 award winner, told MeriTalk in an interview published Wednesday that application performance, data security and cost are the key factors driving the multicloud strategy.
WWT Gets AWS Competency Status in Public Safety; Bryan Thomas Quoted
Amazon Web Services has granted World Wide Technology a Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency designation recognizing the latter's knowledge and capacity to deliver technologies to help clients prepare and respond to man-made and natural disasters and emergencies.