Rocket Lab has updated its Electron launch vehicle that now enables it to carry up to 660 pounds of payload to low orbits and 441 pounds to sun-synchronous orbits or 310.1 miles. Read more
Josh Schoeller, former senior vice president and general manager of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ health care business, has been promoted to CEO of the same unit after serving on the company... Read more
ABL Space Systems has secured over $90M during a Venrock-led funding round and plans to use the investment to support testing of the company’s RS1 launch vehicle for small satellites. Read more
Ira Entis, growth and strategy lead at Accenture’s federal arm, has said that while implementing artificial intelligence could heighten investment returns, a significant amount of productivi... Read more
NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken have returned to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft after spending 64 days in orbit as part of the Demo-2 mission to the Internati... Read more
The National Institutes of Health has entered into an agreement with Premier to license the latter’s healthcare database to support COVID-19 research initiatives. Read more
The Department of Defense is looking for commercially available launch services to help send lightweight payloads to low-Earth orbit. Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded additional funding to a Charles River Analytics-led team to develop a predictive analytics concept aimed at visualizing social influ... Read more
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have partnered to develop and implement a virtual reality system for training the service branch’s F-35A aircraft maintenance personnel. Read more
The U.S. Air Force plans to select a contractor this summer to prototype the service brach’s “Skyborg” unmanned aerial vehicle ahead of flight tests scheduled for 2021, Breaking Defense repo... Read more
Merivis, a nonprofit organization that trains military veterans in Salesforce cloud technology administration, has received a $100K grant from Accenture and its federal arm to offer training... Read more
Northrop Grumman is planning to launch its second and latest satellite-servicing vehicle to geostationary orbit no earlier than July 31, NASA Spaceflight reported Friday. Read more
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket has entered the final preparation phase ahead of the Mars 2020 mission in which NASA’s Perseverance rover will conduct a probe of the Martian surface... Read more
The Department of Defense is looking for information on technologies ready for deployment over the next 25 years and beyond as part of the Pentagon’s efforts to develop a Cyber Science and T... Read more
Zscaler’s Patrick Perry: Agencies Need Zero-Trust, Cloud-Based Enterprise IT Approach to Telework
Patrick Perry, director of emerging technology for federal, defense and intelligence community at Zscaler, has said that agencies must consider various factors in cloud implementation as rem... Read more