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Northrop Grumman has experimented with an occulting technology the company built to help astronomers view and study celestial objects from Earth. The company demonstrated circular and petal-shaped designs of its starshade in conjunction with the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope during engineering tests at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, Northrop said Tuesday. It marks the first […] More

Faisal Iqbal, public sector chief technology officer for Citrix, has outlined a number of steps for government agencies to combat cyber attacks. Iqbal wrote in an opinion piece for Federal News Radio published Tuesday that there is a need for agencies to adopt personal identity verification cards and multifactor authentication through software-defined workspaces. He noted that […] More

Lockheed Martin has invested in Peloton Technology in an effort to help further develop and commercialize the latter company’s truck platooning technology. Peloton said Monday it raised $17 million in a recent funding round from Lockheed and several other investors, including Intel Capital and Denso International America. Peloton’s technology employs a radar-based active braking system, […] More

Northrop Grumman, ViaSat and Optus have partnered to offer a technology for Australian armed forces to leverage a wideband global satellite communications network. The alliance proposed to give the Australian military access to the Satcom Operations and Planning Element, a Northrop-built network management system designed to integrate with WGS, Northrop said Monday. Ian Irving, chief […] More

Lockheed Martin and the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland have wrapped up their collaborative research of new methods to integrate manned and unmanned airborne technologies. The company said Friday it helped university researchers develop software during the Optimizing Unmanned System of Systems research project. The partnership sought to identify techniques to enable aircraft systems […] More

A Research and Markets report predicts the global soldier modernization market will hit $12.8 billion by 2025 from $8.3 billion in 2015. The report analyzed drivers, spending pattern, modernization trends and growth stimulators for the soldier modernization market in a span of 10 years, Research and Markets said Tuesday. It set the compound annual growth rate at 4.38 percent, with technological […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne has built and delivered its 100th throttling divert and attitude control system for the Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptor. Aerojet said Wednesday that TDACS is currently the only MIL-STD 1901A standards-compliant solid rocket propulsion system being used by the U.S. Navy. The company also manufactures first- and second-stage SM-3 Block IB booster […] More

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boston Engineering a $150,000 contract to help build an embedded motor control technology for unmanned aerial vehicles. Boston Engineering aims to demonstrate a motor controller that could reduce noise of drone systems as well as support propulsion and sensor functions in unmanned aircraft, the company said Friday. Mark Smithers, […] More

Engility Holdings has inked a memorandum of agreement with the International Council on Systems Engineering to encourage Engility’s engineering workforce to secure systems engineering professional certifications from INCOSE. Engility said Thursday individuals that intend to secure an INCOSE SEP certification need to undergo an evaluation process to test their proficiency in systems engineering. Tony Smeraglinolo, president […] More

The FlexTech Alliance consortium will create and manage the seventh Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Flexible Hybrid Electronics under a cooperative agreement with the Defense Department as part of the government’s National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. DoD said Friday the institute will bring together government, industry and academic professionals to help bolster U.S. manufacturing capabilities in flexible hybrid electronics. The Air […] More