General Electric's aviation business has reported design, development and demonstration milestones for its aircraft engines over the past year in line with the U.S. Army's Future Vertical Lift program.

Textron Systems has partnered with Shield AI to integrate the latter's artificial intelligence technologies into Textron's land, air and sea-based unmanned systems for various multidomain defense applications.

Industrial network technology maker Rajant has appointed former Department of Defense officials Michael Griffin and Lisa Porter as well as former Northrop Grumman executive Daniel Verwiel as strategic advisers to inform market strategy development efforts.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has conducted an on-ramp exercise with Raytheon Technologies to test the company's battle management software with the U.S. Air Force's command-and-control platform.

The U.S. Marine Corps has conducted an exercise at USMC Air Station in Yuma, Arizona, to test a Lockheed Martin-built prototype system for managing F-35 logistics and sustainment operations.

Northrop Grumman has entered into an agreement with Lockheed Martin to provide additional abort system components for the Orion capsule that will be used for NASA's subsequent Artemis missions to deep space.

John-Paul Hemingway, CEO of SES Networks, said a partnership agreement with Microsoft to integrate connectivity and cloud service offerings would give new sources of revenue and opportunities in customer base at the satellite communications firm.

Government officials and nonprofit sector representatives in 11 U.S. states have partnered with Mitre to implement a browser plugin and mobile application that works to help them identify misleading or false information on social media concerning the upcoming elections.

The General Services Administration has selected Kantara Initiative to perform third-party evaluation of the federal government's unified login service against digital identity protection standards set forth by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The U.S. Transportation Command has partnered with SpaceX and San Antonio, Texas-based space architecture company XArc to conduct a research and development effort on the potential use of rockets to rapidly deliver military cargo.

Perspecta's research arm has received a potential seven-year, $24.7M contract to provide telecommunications and engineering standards support to aid the U.S. Navy in its emergency preparedness and national security initiatives.

A new survey conducted by Guidehouse and the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management has found that cybersecurity and privacy issues remain as the top priority for agency attention in current and future efforts.

The General Services Administration is looking for potential sources of commercial technologies that can process inquiries from federal agencies and the public regarding programs and policies.

Peter Villano, director of Microsoft Azure, has urged the Small Business Administration and the Department of Defense to reform current approaches that prevent smaller companies from increasing participation in government technology research and development programs.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a software package that simulates the Transportation Security Administration's passenger scanning systems to potentially inform the development of future detection platforms.