Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said she “is very confident” that nuclear modernization programs would still get government backing in the event that a new president gets elected, Inside Defense reported Thursday.

Rick Strasser and Gurnaik Dosanjh of IBM wrote in a joint article published Thursday on Federal Times that government agencies pursuing payroll modernization projects should consider the triad of people, process and technology.

The U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command has awarded TriSept a contract to provide integration support for the Gunsmoke-J small satellite technology demonstration mission that is set to lift off aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle in early 2021, SatNews reported Wednesday.

Homayun Yaqub, senior security strategist at Forcepoint, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that there are five measures organizations can consider to protect against ransomware attacks and one is creating a ransomware incident playbook

A Science Applications International Corp. survey has found that 84 percent of federal government executives said they are more or just as productive since their transition to virtual work environments and 82 percent said they expect telework to continue even after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a three-time Wash100 awardee, discussed in a video interview posted Monday about the company’s partnership with Microsoft to bring the Starlink satellite connectivity to the latter’s Azure cloud computing platform.

Blue Origin is working to convince the U.S. Air Force to continue to fund the development of the New Glenn rocket in order to get it certified to perform national security missions, SpaceNews reported Monday. “We’re discussing with the Air Force the path forward for certification,” said Megan Mitchell, director of government and legislative affairs at Blue Origin.

Toni Townes-Whitley, president of U.S. regulated industries at Microsoft, told Federal News Network in an interview posted Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic prompted agencies to advance the move to the cloud to facilitate remote work and the transition to a zero trust model.

Bill Wright, director of federal government affairs at Splunk, wrote in a Federal Times article posted Monday that agencies should provide employees with training and reskilling opportunities to prepare them for rising data volumes.

Defense contractors are working on artificial intelligence-powered sensors and other partially autonomous machines that could help the U.S. Army process images and identify targets, Breaking Defense reported Thursday.

A new Deltek report shows that there are three trends in the federal cloud market to watch in fiscal year 2021 and one of those is the accelerated adoption of cloud-based capabilities by agencies, Federal Times reported Thursday.

Jonathan Alboum, principal digital strategist at ServiceNow, told Government Matters in an interview posted Tuesday that federal agencies should ensure they have the right networks, software and hardware asset management programs and other tools in place to continue supporting maximum telework.

SpaceX is studying ways how it could offer weather data to the U.S. military under a potential six-month, $2M contract awarded by the Space Force’s Space Missile Systems Center in July, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.

A test pilot of the Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant helicopter talked about his flying experience and the capabilities of the aircraft’s X2 Technology during a webcast hosted Wednesday by Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary as part of the Association of the United States Army conference, Aviation Today reported.

IBM, BAE Systems and General Dynamics presented at the 2020 Association of the United States Army conference their hybrid cloud services that can be moved from one system to another, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday.