The U.S. Air Force and Beta Technologies conducted a crewed test flight of an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, dubbed Alia, on March 9, at the company’s testing facility in Plattsburgh, New York. Alia can transport passengers and cargo and is a fully electric aircraft with zero emissions and can be recharged for less […] More

Northrop Grumman has closed a licensing agreement with NASA to use three agency-developed technologies for future missions of servicing satellites in orbit. NASA said Wednesday the transfer of its gripper tool, client berthing system and fluid transfer coupler to Northrop is part of an effort to advance the satellite servicing concept. Both developed for the […] More

Michael Saylor, chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy, has expressed belief that bitcoin is bound to go up and cited technology adoption and inflation as two of the drivers of the price increase. In a Yahoo Finance Live interview, Saylor estimated the U.S. monetary inflation rate to fall between 15 to 20 percent in the next […] More

Robert Dapkiewicz, senior vice president and general manager for MetTel, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for his latest Executive Spotlight interview regarding the launch of the company’s Global Cloud Network, which aims to improve zero-trust architecture adoption, network access and cloud capabilities for remote workers. In addition, Dapkiewicz discussed intelligent process automation, the impact of data analytics […] More

Sepio Systems has broaden its partnership with Merlin Cyber‘s investment arm in an effort to market the hardware access control company’s zero trust technology designed to provide federal agencies with full physical layer visibility. Merlin Ventures will help deploy to federal customers Sepio Systems’ Hardware Access Control-1 software, which was developed to enable government’s maximized […] More

Stratos Davlos, former executive at IBM‘s Watson business, will lead a software team at Astra as part of his appointment as the space services provider’s senior vice president of software. The 20-year veteran in artificial intelligence and machine learning will oversee the intelligent operating system that supports Astra’s space platform and operations, the California-based company […] More

The U.S. Navy has selected Gibbs & Cox to provide maintenance support services to the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Philadelphia under a potential five-year, $20 million contract. Work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity will support the center's materials, structures, environmental and protection department, the company said Tuesday.

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The public policy think tank Center for Security and Emerging Technology has found some differences and overlaps in the research agenda at six U.S. technology companies that pursue artificial intelligence and machine learning programs. CSET's "Mapping Research Agendas in U.S. Corporate AI Laboratories" report offers a look at AI/ML research topic areas prioritized by IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Joshua Marcuse, head of strategy and innovation for Google Cloud’s global public sector business, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award for his leadership and efforts to advance digital transformation, tech capabilities and drive industry partnerships. This marks Joshua Marcuse's second consecutive Wash100 Award.

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Esri has partnered with Airspace Link to implement new situational awareness features into the former's end-to-end cloud-based drone mapping software tool. The new integration for the Site Scan for ArcGIS flight planner tool is designed to display data associated with a specified area including information on no-flight zones, special activities and controlled airspaces, Esri said Friday.

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Dave Levy, vice president of Amazon Web Services' (AWS) federal business, has received his fourth consecutive Wash100 Award as a part of Executive Mosaic’s class of 2021 recipients for continuing focus on cloud efforts, cyber and driving the development of emerging technology capabilities across the federal sector. Visit GovConWire to read Dave Levy’s full 2021 Wash100 Award profile.

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Bryan Ware, former assistant director for cybersecurity a the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has joined LookingGlass Cyber Solutions' advisory board to provide input on how the company can help enhance the global cyber ecosystem's security and resilience.

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