MBDA revealed its plans to increase its US presence and presented Jerry Agee as the CEO of its MBDA Inc company at the Paris Air Show. Agee, an ex-corporate VP of Northrop Grumman, has held his new post for just two weeks. “MBDA Inc has been in existence for around 10 years,” he commented. “What is […] More

Amazon Web Services helped the Department of Justice’s tax division develop an application in less than two months to streamline the process for employees seeking approval for their telework requests and enable DOJ to implement a hybrid work arrangement as part of their return-to-office policy. The development team at DOJ’s tax division tapped AWS Professional […] More

When you think of small businesses, size standards are generally the first things that come to mind. The Small Business Administration (SBA) has been defining them since 1977 as authorized by the Small Business Act. These standards help the government determine small businesses’ federal assistance eligibility, strengthen competitive advantage, and increase federal procurement opportunities against […] More

As the small business landscape continues to change and evolve, many entrepreneurs are looking for ways to start and grow their businesses. With funding often being a major challenge for these businesses, many organizations, including private corporations, state organizations, and federal government agencies, are now offering small business grants to help them succeed. These grants […] More

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Amazon Web Services have teamed up to improve the accessibility of a cloud-based ecosystem for neuroimaging datasets. Johns Hopkins APL said Thursday the expanded partnership will enable AWS to further support the storage of neuroscience datasets within its Brain Observatory Storage Service & Database, dubbed BossDB, through […] More

Research and technical assistance firm Abt Associates has deployed Amazon Web Services products to develop an analytics tool designed to help the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development address the homelessness crisis.

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An Amazon Web Services blog post published Wednesday examines how the Washington-based Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has facilitated the development of an image similarity platform for national security missions through cloud adoption.

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Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing“™s defense, space and security business, has said the company would be “honored and thrilled“ if given the opportunity to take part in the U.K.“™s new fighter jet program, Reuters reported Friday. Caret, a two-time Wash100 recipient, told Reuters at the Farnborough Airshow that it is too early to issue conclusive statements, […] More

Richard Edwards, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s international business, has said he believes the Trump administration’s policy on conventional arms transfers will help accelerate sales of weapons systems to U.S. allies, Reuters reported Wednesday. Edwards told Reuters that foreign sales accounted for nearly 30 percent of the company’s 2017 revenue. Saudi Arabia is reviewing a contract […] More

Raytheon and Rheinmetall have partnered to offer a suite of integrated air defense systems to Germany that could potentially rival Lockheed Martin‘s antimissile system offering for the German military, Defense News reported Friday. The partnership seeks to propose the Raytheon-built Patriot system in case Germany decides to explore other options for its Taktisches Luftverteidigungssystem program, or TLVS. Rheinmetall […] More

BAE Systems and Asco Industries have agreed to partner across the areas of composite materials, additive layer manufacturing, advanced manufacturing and engineering. Both companies will also pursue potential airframe assembly and manufacturing work on Eurofighter Typhoon should Belgium pick the aircraft to replace its fleet of F-15 fighter jets, BAE said Nov. 21. BAE and […] More

QinetiQ has opened a center of excellence at the company’s headquarters in  Farnborough, England, to facilitate development and test of high-energy lasers. The Dragonworks CoE is built to serve as a testing platform for military and commercial laser technology platforms, the company said Friday. The facility includes a clean-room wherein personnel can work on sensitive optical equipment and offers access […] More