HII‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has authenticated the keel of the Virginia-class submarine Arkansas, marking a milestone on the development of another fast attack vessel for the U.S. Navy.  The submarine, or SSN 800, underwent a keel authentication ceremony with sponsors Little Rock Nine, the first African-American students to attend Central High School in Little […] More

The General Services Administration has signed a memorandum of understanding with Entergy Corporation to help advance the Biden administration’s net-zero carbon emission goal by 2030. Under the MOU, Entergy Arkansas will enable utilization of nuclear as well as solar, hydro, wind and other regionally sourced renewable power among public and private customers in the state, […] More

Panasonic Group‘s energy business plans to invest $4 billion to establish a manufacturing facility in De Soto, Kansas, for rechargeable car batteries and expects to create 4,000 jobs through the potential project. The state government approved an application by the company to receive an Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion incentive to build the lithium-ion electric vehicle […] More

Airbus will use a manufacturing facility in Arkansas to produce the aerial refueling boom system for Lockheed Martin’s offering for a U.S. Air Force strategic tanker program. The Arkansas-built boom system will be integrated into the LMXT strategic tanker aircraft during the second phase of the plane’s assembly and configuration process, Lockheed said Wednesday. The […] More

Arkansas has elected to continue its partnership with a Tyler Technologies subsidiary that provides the state with a digital government and payment platform. The Plano, Texas-based software company said Thursday its affiliate NIC will build on a 25-year history of providing digital services such as online vehicle and driver portals, criminal background checks and county property […] More

United Launch Alliance has awarded Wichita, Kansas-based company Milling Precision a supplier contract to provide fabricated and machined parts for its Atlas V launch vehicle. Milling Precision joins a network of suppliers supporting the family of rockets that has conducted 90 payload missions for the Department of Defense, NASA and various commercial customers, ULA said […] More

Collins Aerospace seeks to further support its interior products portfolio and provide customers with maintenance, repair and overhaul services through a new facility in Lenexa, Kansas. The Raytheon Technologies subsidiary said Tuesday the 279,000-square-foot center of excellence will feature technology engineering, development and manufacturing capabilities, and an MRO service area for its galley inserts, oxygen […] More

Spirit AeroSystems has opened a new research center at Wichita State University in Kansas to advance work on high temperature materials, such as hypersonic weapons, for aviation, defense and space programs. The National Defense Prototype Center covers over 125,000-square-foot of space for manufacturing and laboratory activities such as material processing and characterization work, the Wichita, […] More

Geospark Analytics has received a four-year contract to continue providing the Federal Emergency Management Agency with geospatial models that help gather insight into counties struck by disaster. FEMA will use the custom models to determine how community lifelines affect counties before and after a disaster, the Herndon, Virginia-based applied artificial intelligence company said Wednesday. The […] More

Esri has opened access to its collection of cartographic boundary files and demographic data, known as the National Geospatial Data Assets, in a push to support decision-making in disaster response, infrastructure development and other areas of national concern.  The location intelligence company’s move also seeks to support the goals of the Geospatial Data Act of […] More

Patrick Perry, director of emerging technology for federal DOD/IC at Zscaler, said contractors seeking to accelerate their compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program should take a transformational, user-centric approach to security by adopting a secure access service edge framework. “Using an organization’s defined business rules – or in this case […] More

Verizon and the U.S. Marine Corps demonstrated the former’s 5G-based Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response prototype vehicle at the service’s installation in California, Nextgov reported Friday. “At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar this week, we demonstrated THOR’s ability to enable a fully-operational 5G network that allowed: autonomous robot communication to a self-driving battery delivery vehicle, video […] More