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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 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started the process of soliciting research proposals for a machine learning technology to help autonomous systems determine its task competency and support human-machine teaming activities.
The U.S. Marine Corps has asked industry to submit ideas on how to develop a weapons system that would hit targets at a range surpassing that of systems being used by organic infantry units.
Firefly Aerospace has announced plans to open manufacturing and launch facilities within Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida. The company said Friday it will invest $52M to construct production facilities at Exploration Park and begin launch operations at Space Launch Complex 20 as part of an agreement with Space Florida, the state’s spaceport development authority.
Celeste O’Dea, business development director for public sector technology at Oracle, has said cloud-based technologies could help federal agencies recruit a new generation of public sector workers and retain existing workforce. O’Dea wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that human capital management and talent acquisition systems on the cloud could aid agencies in streamlining recruitment procedures and outcomes.
Gordon Nelson, chief data innovation adviser at Hitachi Vantara Federal, has said agencies should consider end user input and experience, datasets and modern technology when creating and implementing a data analytics strategy.
The U.S. Navy will host an industry day on March 11 to discuss the requirements of an upcoming program to modernize systems that support depot-level maintenance work at  public naval shipyards.
TeamingPro has introduced automated technology platform built to help contracting firms identify potential industry partners in pursuit of federal contracts.
The Department of the Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service wants information on applications that will enable field revenue officers to collect tax payments through non-cash payment methods. IRS issued a request for information posted Thursday on FedBizOpps to seek potential vendors that could provide mobile apps, low-frequency beacons, online payment apps, electronic payment devices and other portable technologies for electronic tax collection.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has deployed two CubeSats from the International Space Station under a flight demonstration and test initiative. The CubeSats were launched from the orbital laboratory via a NanoRacks CubeSat platform as part of the CubeSat Assessment and Test mission, APL said Wednesday.
The Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration are set to negotiate potential cooperative agreements with four companies to produce a medical isotope for use in medical procedures throughout the U.S.
The Defense Logistics Agency has selected Synergetics to create a webscale version of logistics information products in a cloud computing environment.
