NASA Eyes US Firms to Help Build Reusable Tech for Manned Moon Missions
NASA is interested in partnering with U.S.-based companies to design and build reusable systems that would land astronauts on the moon by 2028.
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Boeing Hands Over Fifth KC-46 Tanker to Air Force; Leanne Caret Quoted
The U.S. Air Force has welcomed the arrival of its fifth Boeing-built KC-46A Pegasus tanker at Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma. The aircraft took off from Boeing’s Seattle-based facility on Friday and arrived at Altus AFB, where the 56th air refueling squadron responsible for the tanker maintenance, aircraft and support training is based, the company said Friday.
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Applied Insight Obtains CMMI Level 3 Rating; John Hynes Quoted
Applied Insight has received appraisal under the CMMI Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integration framework for the company's processes to engineer software and systems.
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Hughes Delivers Satcom Modems to General Atomics for SkyGuardian RPA Beyond-Line-of-Sight Comms
Hughes Network Systems has delivered an initial batch of satellite communication modems to support beyond-line-of-sight operations of General Atomics's remotely piloted aircraft.
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Inmarsat Government’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on Commercial Satcom Service Misconceptions
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, has said many government customers still have false perceptions about the use of satellite communications as a commercially managed service.
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Dell EMC Federal’s Cameron Chehreh: Virtualization, Transparency Key to Data Center Optimization
Prioritizing virtualization, data portability and transparency in server utilization can help federal agencies meet the requirements of the White House’s data center consolidation initiative, Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer and vice president of presales engineering at Dell EMC's federal business, wrote in an opinion piece for Nextgov published Thursday.
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Carahsoft to Offer SwiftStack Cloud Storage Tech in Public Sector
Carahsoft Technology has agreed to be the distributor and master aggregator of SwiftStack-built cloud storage products in the federal government via NASA's Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract.
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Tyler Technologies Supports OPEN Government Data Act Compliance With Tech
Tyler Technologies offers a suite of technology products and services designed to help agencies comply with a newly passed bill mandating the public availability of machine-readable government data.
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Study: Confidence Gap Remains Across Government Despite Increased Cloud Use
A new study shows that despite the growing use of cloud in the government, there is still a confidence gap across agencies as federal information technology experts doubt the security of the platform.Â
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