Government Technology

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Lightsense Technology’s drug detection device to law enforcement organizations using its government contracts. DrugDetect-M1 is a light-based sensing device designed to help law enforcement officials detect the presence of opioid threats, Carahsoft said Monday. Public sector entities may now access DrugDetect-M1 through Carahsoft’s contracts with NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide […] More

A new report from the IBM Center for The Business of Government presents a synthesis of insights from defense, industry and academic leaders on the implementation of the multidomain command and control strategy and offers six action-oriented recommendations on how to deliver MDC2 capabilities to ensure collective defense in conflicts. The recommendations in the report […] More

CAES has partnered with Lattice Semiconductor to qualify and distribute the latter’s field-programmable gate array for use in space systems. The Arlington, Virginia-based electronics manufacturer said Monday Lattice’s radiation-resistant Certus-NX-RT and CertusPro FPGAs will be added to its space product portfolio and offered as reconfigurable processing systems for future satellites. The Lattice-made FPGAs build on […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ research and development arm has helped the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity create a tool to help English-only speakers retrieve and understand foreign content. The company said Monday Raytheon BBN built and demonstrated its cross-language information retrieval system over a four-year period as part of IARPA’s Machine Translation for English Retrieval for Information […] More

Three individuals and two teams will split $150,000 in prizes following their win in the xView3 competition that the Defense Innovation Unit hosted to seek an open-source algorithm for detecting dark vessels engaged in illegal fishing. DIU said Monday it partnered with Global Fishing Watch to facilitate the three-month contest, challenging 1,900 participants in 67 […] More

The U.S. Air Force is seeking information on interested vendors with a capability to meet the requirements of the F-35 Adaptive Engine Replacement program. The service will use the responses from the market research to determine potential sources’ capability to deliver a propulsion system that can be integrated into the F-35A weapon platform and whether […] More

Carahsoft Technology will distribute Talend’s Data Fabric platform to help government agencies meet data privacy and quality requirements in support of U.S. citizens. The partnership between the two companies aims to assist federal, state and local agencies in pursuing digital transformation and enhancing use of data to augment citizen-facing services, Carahsoft said Thursday. Talend Data […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has added new automation and optimization features to the Earth observation service chain of an orchestrated satellite ground system. The company said Thursday its Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Service Chain or EO/RS SC now works to automate service delivery tasks for the OpenSpace Platform, a fully virtualized ground system. […] More

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has chosen Microsoft’s Azure Quantum cloud ecosystem to speed up the scheduling of spacecraft communications. The company’s Azure Quantum team created a product designed to address JPL’s scheduling issues associated with the Deep Space Network, which NASA uses to communicate with spacecraft, Anita Ramanan, a senior software engineer for the Azure […] More