Activity in the Wash100 Award popular vote contest is abuzz this week as we enter the second half of the race. Some executives have regained the leads they had in the early going, while other fresher faces are steadily making their way up the top 30. It’s becoming a more exciting race by the day, only […] More

BAE Systems has tested the ability of its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System guidance kit to hit armored targets using multi-purpose warheads built by General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems division. The company said Thursday the APKWS-configured rockets with High-Explosive Anti-Tank Anti-Personnel Anti-Materiel warheads directly hit targets including an armored military vehicle and a steel […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Agency has launched a $10.5 million effort led by General Electric‘s technology research and development arm to accelerate software certification for military and industrial systems. The company said GE Research, under DARPA’s Automated Rapid Certification of Software or ARCOS program, is working with GE Aviation Systems, Galois and Guardtime Federal to […] More

CACI International has sent its free-space optical modem to a Department of Defense-funded research and development center in preparation for a NASA-led demonstration of high-bandwidth laser communications from a low-Earth orbit. The modem will be integrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory and will be part of the Integrated Laser Communications Relay Demonstration […] More

Los Angeles-based technology company Mira will deliver a new augmented reality headset to Travis Air Force Base to help augment its maintenance activities with the new technology. Travis AFB said Sunday its maintainers will use Mira’s Prism Pro headset technology to communicate with subject matter experts across the globe and gain insight on how to […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched an in-space manufacturing program that seeks to develop materials for large space and lunar structures and has announced a Feb. 26 webinar for interested proposers. The Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design program is aimed at enabling construction on orbit and on the lunar surface in response to payload size limitations.

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The U.S. Navy's newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer sailed away from a Huntington Ingalls Industries construction yard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Friday for the ship's home base in Mayport, Florida.

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IBM has secured the most patents among U.S. private sector organizations in 2019, continuing the company's record of topping the list.

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Cos DiMaggio, chief technology and strategy officer at LMI, told attendees at a company-hosted event that LMI aims to update its traditional approaches to data analytics to better help federal clients address future threats.

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The U.S. Air Force is seeking companies that can manufacture next-generation area attack warheads for the service“™s BLU-136/B fragmentation bomb.

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The American Heart Association announced that is has raised a record-breaking amount of $2.458M from the Heart Walk on November 3, 2018. The funds raised support the American Heart Association“™s mission to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives.

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Information technology officials at state and local governments said some federal regulations have been "very impactful" on how they deliver online services and tools necessary to protect citizen data, according to a survey by Unisys and Dell EMC.

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