Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said she believes future budget pressures as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will not have an impact on the schedule of the U.S. Air Force’s $85B Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile program, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.

Aerospace and defense contractors have come up with ways to enable their interns to work virtually as they continue their efforts to build up their workforce amid the coronavirus pandemic, Government Executive reported Tuesday.

SpaceX and the U.S. Army have signed a three-year agreement to test the capability of Starlink broadband in transmitting data across military networks, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.

SpaceX's manned Demo-2 test flight mission as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program received the go-ahead to launch on Wednesday, May 27, after it passed a launch readiness evaluation Monday.

HP’s government arm has awarded Perspecta a contract worth more than $120M to help with the end-user hardware portion of the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract, Inside Defense reported Friday.

Joyce Hunter, a veteran information technology leader, has been named executive director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a nonprofit cybersecurity think tank. Parham Eftekhari, ICIT founder and most recently executive director, has transitioned to the role of chairman of the board of directors.

Dave Levy, vice president of federal business at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, said there are three early lessons from the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium and one is the capability of new technology platforms to help researchers expedite their work. "Tools including deep learning and artificial intelligence are reducing time to insight for researchers around the world," Levy wrote in a blog post published Thursday.

Palantir has received a potential $5M contract to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with its Gotham software to help track and analyze data related to coronavirus outbreak areas and generate insights from hospital inventory, social services data and supply chain capacity to facilitate the decision-making process, FedScoop reported Tuesday.

The 5G Open Innovation Lab has selected 17 technology startups for its first cohort that will take part in its inaugural 12-week virtual program, which seeks to help companies develop new tech applications and markets using 5G.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking organizations to share their products and technical expertise in support of a project that seeks to demonstrate how components of the 5G network architecture can offer security capabilities to meet industry’s compliance requirements and reduce identified risks.

Gary Newgaard, vice president of public sector at Pure Storage, wrote in a GCN guest piece published Tuesday that government agencies should have the right infrastructure and a modern data experience to meet expanded telework requirements.

Zach Dunn, formerly senior vice president of production and launch at SpaceX, has been named VP of factory development at California-based Relativity Space, Ars Technica reported Tuesday.

William “Bill” Brown, chairman and CEO of L3Harris Technologies and a previous Wash100 awardee, wrote in a commentary published Monday on Defense News that there are several actions the Department of Defense and industry should implement to strengthen the country’s defense supply chain and one is ensuring sustained budgets.

The U.S. Air Force conducted in late April a three-day preliminary design review of Northrop Grumman’s proposed system for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile program, the service branch reported Friday.

Meagan Metzger, founder and CEO of Dcode and an advisory board member at Booz Allen Hamilton, wrote in a commentary published Thursday on Defense News that the Department of Defense and other federal agencies seeking to rapidly deploy commercial technology platforms should collaborate with private sector partners with experience screening tech companies for government contracts.