TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 14, 2021 — Red Hat has promoted Joe Sangiuliano to vice president of business development at the company's North American public sector business, transitioning from his most previous role as senior director of civilian sales within the same unit, GovCon Wire reported April 6.

The Department of Defense and LIFT, a national manufacturing innovation institute, have teamed up to launch a competition that seeks to engage the U.S. manufacturing industrial sector in the development of hypersonic vehicle systems and related materials.

CAES was tapped by an unnamed fifth generation wireless technology manufacturer to supply a millimeter wave up- and down-converter that will be designed and developed to be applicable to 5G equipment and capable of supporting the 28 GHz and 39 GHz bands and multichannel communications.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will research and develop new sensors in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory under a $49.9 million sole-source contract from the U.S. Air Force. Johns Hopkins APL will perform sensor R&D activities in Laurel, Maryland, through April 9, 2028.

ICF will provide the Department of Labor with services for information technology and cybersecurity workforce development under two four-year agreements with a combined value of $16 million. The company said Monday work is under the H-1B One Workforce Grant Program.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has passed the final hot-fire acceptance test of an upgraded hydrogen-fueled rocket engine that will be used to power the United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle. The RS-68A engine's most recent evaluation was conducted on the B-1 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center of NASA in Mississippi.

LMI has received a five-year $16 million contract from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for services in support of the Department of Defense's technology acquisition and international cooperation efforts. Robert Lech, vice president of defense market at LMI, said one of the keys to executing the National Defense Strategy is international cooperation.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 12, 2021 — Lockheed Martin has tapped El Segundo, California-based launch vehicle developer ABL Space Systems for rockets and launch services in support of the aerospace company's efforts to send payload technologies into orbit, ExecutiveGov reported April 5.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 12, 2021 — Ed Casey, most recently CEO of Idemia‘s identity and security business in North America, has joined the board of directors of Tyto Athene following the government systems integrator's acquisition of AT&T Government Solutions.

Citadel Defense has updated its Titan counter unmanned aircraft system to incorporate CUAS training and help warfighters teach a colleague how to operate the platform for enhanced situational awareness. The company said Thursday the training environments integrated into the Titan software were developed using artificial intelligence, automated threat simulation and data augmentation technologies.

Sixty SpaceX-operated small satellites aboard the Falcon 9 rocket were sent to low Earth orbit to join the Starlink broadband constellation that is being established by the company to deliver high-speed broadband internet connection to rural or remote communities.

Raytheon Technologies's intelligence and space business launched a virtual training program in 2020 in an effort to educate participants on how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be applied to the analysis of geospatial intelligence.

Leidos has handed over to the U.S. Navy a medium-displacement unmanned surface vehicle built on the Mississippi Gulf Coast as part of an approximately $35.5 million contract the Office of Naval Research awarded in December 2017.

Garrison Technology has formed a government advisory panel that will provide insight and guide leadership as the company moves to pursue government market growth through the delivery of harsec field-programmable gate array-based cross domain offerings.

QRC Technologies, a Parsons subsidiary, has introduced a lightweight user-defined signal tagging technology that is designed to employ artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital signal processing approaches to provide warfighters with radio frequency spectrum awareness.