A Unisys-sponsored survey has found that 77 percent of U.S. citizens said they accept the fact that local and state government agencies practise interagency sharing of their social security... Read more
Arlington, Va.-based cybersecurity firm Shift5 has raised $2.5M in a new round of venture funding led by Squadra Ventures and backed by Emerging Ventures, Lamphere Capital, Nue Capital and O... Read more
Executives from Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Thales Alenia Space and other satellite manufacturers said software-defined or “flexible” satellites that can redesign capacity and... Read more
Rob Johnson, owner of Portland, Ore.-based marketing and communications consulting firm Fine Tuning, wrote in a Federal News Network commentary piece published Wednesday about the Aurora exa... Read more
The General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget have awarded $300K each to three teams that won the Government Effectiveness Advanced Research Center challenge. Read more
Executives from United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and other launch services firms discussed their companies’ interest in the government market during a panel discussion at the Worl... Read more
Adam Clater, chief architect for North American public sector business at Red Hat, wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday that government agencies should address the cultural divide bet... Read more
Alabama-based space startup Aevum has secured a $4.9M contract from the U.S. Air Force to send experimental satellites to low-Earth orbit, SpaceNews reported Monday. Read more
David Gerber, senior principal systems engineer at Mitre, said the company’s recent study suggests that the Air Force should postpone the retirement of legacy bombers until the B-21 aircraft... Read more
Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar Technologies, said he is optimistic that the company will return to growth and “excited about the trend lines” he is seeing in its satellite busines... Read more
Eileen Drake, president and CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne, said the company thinks some civilian space and defense programs could be in jeopardy if a new president is elected in 2020, SpaceNews... Read more
Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Cloudera, wrote in a LinkedIn article published Thursday that open source provides mission-critical valu... Read more
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Inmarsat Government wrote in a SatMagazine article that the commercial satellite communications industry supports government customers’ missions and understand their... Read more
American Systems has been added to the list of military friendly employers for 2020 in recognition of the Chantilly, Va.-based information technology services contractor’s efforts to hire an... Read more
CEO Chris Lynch: Rebellion Defense Seeks to Support DoD Missions With Software, Tech
Chris Lynch, CEO and co-founder of Washington, D.C.-based software startup Rebellion Defense, told Defense One in an interview published Friday that the company sees itself as a strategic pa... Read more