Government Technology

Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon, has said there are five key takeaways from the White House’s updated National Cyber Strategy and one of those is the Trump administration’s position that cyber crime is a national security threat. Kennedy wrote in a Fox Business opinion piece published Monday that through the strategy, the administration made clear that one of its key priorities is to address intellectual property theft.

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun to solicit research proposals on high-performance leading edges for hypersonic air systems under a new initiative.

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Lockheed Martin has landed a contract with two 18-month phased tasks to develop an airborne electronic warfare pod technology for the U.S. Army, C4ISRNET reported Monday.

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Eight NASA-supported research and technology payloads launched aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft Wednesday as part of the space agency's Flight Opportunities program.

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Lt. Gen. David Thompson, vice commander of U.S. Air Force Space Command, has said AFSPC plans to use its acquisition authorities to accelerate procurement of three technology platforms, National Defense Magazine reported Friday.

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A new Albuquerque, N.M.-based defense company founded by former Raytheon employees has begun to design and produce technology platforms for counter-drone operations and satellite communications, Albuquerque Business First reported Friday. Established in June 2018, Raven Defense occupies a 5K-square-foot office in New Mexico and plans to lease more space as the company works on radio frequency-based platforms and builds up its hiring pipeline through the University of New Mexico's workforce training program and COSMIAC research center.
 

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The U.S. Air Force has posted a request for information on potential vendors that can provide an enterprise technology platform to facilitate collaboration and communication between  Distributed Common Ground System users.

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Siemens has signed a memorandum of understanding with three Department of Energy-funded national laboratories to explore hardware and software platforms that can help update and secure the U.S. electric grid system.

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Amazon Web Services has made its cloud automation templates available for use with a National Institutes of Health-funded web application designed to help users build and manage online surveys and databases.

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SAP National Security Services and Google have teamed up to deliver cloud and data capabilities to public sector customers. SAP NS2 said Thursday the partnership will allow its clients to use the SAP HANA in-memory database system on the Google Cloud Platform to derive actionable insights from data and advance digital transformation efforts.

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Boeing handed over two KC-46A Pegasus tanker planes to the U.S. Air Force during a ceremony held Thursday at the company’s Everett, Wash.-based assembly facility, GeekWire reported Thursday. Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, made a surprise announcement Thursday before employees and service personnel that the company would deliver not just one, but two KC-46As to the military branch.

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