Fortinet aims to help bridge cyber skills gaps through a five-year commitment to support the cybersecurity training of a million individuals across the globe. The company said Wednesday it will deliver cyber education through a wide range of efforts under its Training Advancement Agenda and Network Security Experts training institute. Fortinet will offer an eight-level […] More

NASA has tasked Ball Aerospace to study two architecture concepts designed to modernize instruments of Earth imagery satellites. The company said Monday it will assess how constellation and single satellite concepts can accommodate new spectral bands and orbit parameters as well as enhanced spatial resolution for the Landsat Next program.  Ball will seek to determine […] More

A Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace team has concluded the critical design review for an infrared-based satellite mission payload designed to meet the U.S. Space Force’s national security requirements. Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared satellites, whose development is led by Lockheed Martin, are designed to alert the U.S. military on missile threats and would succeed the […] More

Ball Aerospace has concluded the preliminary design review of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spacecraft meant to continuously observe the sun’s outermost atmospheric layer and measure upstream solar wind for data collection efforts. The company said Thursday completing Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1‘s PDR allows the spacecraft to enter a critical design phase for […] More

Michael Gazarik, a vice president at Ball Aerospace, took a three-year seat at the NASA Advisory Council's technology, innovation and engineering committee in July.

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NASA has selected Ball Aerospace to develop a spacecraft that would help the agency study the atmosphere's outermost region that transitions into space as part of the agency's heliophysics science mission of opportunity. The company said Tuesday it will build the Global Lyman-alpha Imager of the Dynamic Exosphere or GLIDE spacecraft that would track the hydrogen-based ultraviolet light found in the region.

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The Missile Defense Agency intends to award Lockheed Martin's missiles and fire control business a sole-source contract to carry out design technical assistance and integration work for a ballistic missile interceptor to meet a foreign military sales requirement from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Ball Corporation has appointed Daniel Fisher, senior vice president, as the company's president and member of its board of directors, effective 2021. Lisa Pauley, SVP of HR and administration, and Scott Morrison, SVP and chief financial officer, were also promoted to Ball's executive vice presidents and will retain their current responsibilities.

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L3Harris Technologies will develop and deliver systems through which U.S. Air Force personnel would train to operate a new intercontinental ballistic missile, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. The company will perform this work as a subcontractor to support the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent missile under an existing $13.3B contract held by Northrop Grumman.

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Google has updated search engine features to provide voters information about where they can find a voting facility or a drop box near their locations to cast votes in the presidential election. "Search for things like “early voting locations“ or “ballot drop boxes near me“ and you'll find details on where you can vote in person or return your mail-in ballot, whether you're voting early or on Election Day," Yunhan Xu, a Google product manager, wrote in a blog post published Friday.

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A Ball Aerospace-built ozone layer monitoring instrument has been shipped to a manufacturing facility for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Joint Polar Satellite System-2 satellite.

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Ball Aerospace has been selected to conduct three research projects to explore sustainable land imaging platforms that could support Earth observation satellite operations under a joint NASA-U.S. Geological Survey program.

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