Andrew Weber -- former assistant secretary for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs at the Department of Defense -- has joined the board of directors at Sykesville, Md.-based biological mass spectrometer technology provider Zeteo Tech.

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VMware and Carpathia will collaborate to provide federal agencies a hybrid cloud computing service as both companies seek to acquire an authority-to-operate provision under the governmentwide FedRAMP program. The VMware vCloud Government Service will be designed to run legacy and new applications in order to help agencies extend their data centers into a cloud computing environment that holds […] More

A Millennium Space Systems-built satellite took off Thursday aboard Firefly Aerospace‘s Alpha rocket from a launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as part of a Space Systems Command-led Tactically Responsive Space mission, called Victus Nox. The liftoff occurred 27 hours after the U.S. Space Force issued a launch order for the TacRS […] More

A Millennium Space Systems-built satellite took off Thursday aboard Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket from a launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as part of a Space Systems Command-led Tactically Responsive Space mission, called Victus Nox. More

Bretton Alexander has been appointed as chief revenue officer of Firefly Aerospace, bringing over three decades of experience in the aerospace industry to the company. As chief revenue officer, Alexander will work to speed up company growth, expand Firefly’s customer base and cultivate relationships with existing clients, the Cedar Park, Texas-based organization announced on Friday. “Brett’s global […] More

The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 is authorized to allocate a generous $280 billion to stimulate the semiconductor industry in the U.S. Building on its momentum, agencies across the federal government are initiating efforts to reinforce and magnify developments in the microelectronics field. The Department of Defense’s Office of the Under Secretary for Research […] More

Hypersonic weapons are a major area of contestation for the U.S. with near peer competitors like China. Part of the main thrust of the military alliance between the U.S., Australia and the United Kindom, AUKUS, is the development of these weapons, which can travel at a blistering speed of Mach 5, or five times the speed […] More

Qumulo has begun to offer its software product for storage, management and protection of file data in Amazon Web Services' government-focused cloud computing region.

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QTS aims to grow its offerings for federal government and commercial enterprises to manage hybrid information technology environments through its $326 million acquisition of Carpathia that closed in June, two QTS executives have told ExecutiveBiz. Those environments present the combined company with an opportunity to shift agencies away from a “one-size-fits-all” approach for their IT […] More