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, G... Read more
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. Read more
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 evaluati... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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 Conso... Read more
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... Read more
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 te... Read more
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... Read more
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 e... Read more
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. Read more
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 Depa... Read more
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 mis... Read more
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 othe... Read more
Northrop’s Kathy Warden: Air Force’s Urgency to Replace ICBM Keeps GBSD Program on Pace
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... Read more