Doug Harvey, vice president and general manager for U.S. state and local governments and education at VMware, has said that local governments should consider applying for COVID-19 relief funding to address current investment gaps.

Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has invested in artificial intelligence company Fiddler for an undisclosed amount in a push to scale the latter’s technology in the aerospace and defense sectors, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 12, 2020 — Ace Info Solutions will offer information technology support services to Department of Agriculture agencies and offices through a potential five-year, $450M blanket purchase agreement, GovCon Wire reported July 29.

TeamingPro and The Intelligence Community Inc. have partnered with the intent to help contracting firms identify team partners and pursue contract opportunities in the intelligence and defense sectors.

Amazon Web Services has granted BAE Systems, ECS and Maxar Technologies an AWS Competency designation that recognizes a company's ability to support emergency preparedness, response and recovery missions with the use of cloud-based tools or services.

Raytheon has performed the second demonstration of a land-based expeditionary variant of its Joint Precision Approach and Landing System before a group of global military officials at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland.

Leidos has selected Four Points Technology, a service-disabled veteran-owned company, to deliver managed print services to NASA through a $2.9B information technology support contract awarded in February.

Trustwave has unveiled a new cloud-based cybersecurity platform designed to help organizations protect critical assets on-premises or in public and private cloud computing environments. The company said Wednesday its Trustwave Fusion offering allows users to have more control and visibility of multiple systems by providing a single view of an organization’s entire environment.

ThreatConnect's intelligence-based security operations platform has been included in the Department of Homeland Security’s list of approved products for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. DHS chose the ThreatConnect offering to help agencies defend networks against threats and support the CDM program's third phase, dubbed Dynamic and Evolving Federal Network Defense, the company said Thursday.

Northrop Grumman has booked orders worth a combined $24.8M to manufacture and deliver medium-caliber ammunition to the U.S. Army. The service branch ordered 30 X 173mm PGU 46/B high-explosive incendiary rounds through a supply contract between the company and the government, Northrop said Thursday.

Raytheon has secured a potential five-year, $48.8M contract from the U.S. Army to provide engineering services for the Air Soldier System, which functions as the military branch's aviation life support equipment.

Google's DeepMind business and the Department of Veterans Affairs have developed a machine learning-based application that works to predict early symptoms of kidney failure. A study published in the journal Nature found that the AI model could help clinicians spot acute kidney injury in patients up to two days in advance and could potentially mitigate the need for serious medical procedures like dialysis or a kidney transplant, VA said Wednesday.

HTX Labs has received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract from the U.S. Air Force to further develop a virtual reality simulation technology for use in the service branch's education and training programs. 

A joint venture of Gannett Fleming and Dewberry will provide engineering and architectural services to the U.S. Army under a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

Amazon Web Services has recognized Fred Bisel, the founder and lead of the Naval Information Warfare Systems Center Atlantic’s Cyber Education and Certification Readiness Facility, as a member of its inaugural AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador Program.