Inmarsat and Singapore-based communications firm Addvalue Innovation have introduced a service to facilitate data transfer between low-Earth orbit small satellites and ground stations. The partnership commissioned the Inter-satellite Data Relay System service Nov. 12 on Sequoia, a Capella Space synthetic aperture radar microsatellite, and launched the IDRS offering after completion of a live data connectivity demonstration, Inmarsat said Monday.

TrellisWare Technologies has demonstrated a system for networking multiple radios over the same radio frequency channel during a recent event for the company's key U.S. military clients.

Fairfax, Virginia-based consulting firm Data and Analytic Solutions has been selected to help the Internal Revenue Service explore approaches to accelerate the agency's contracting process. IRS said Monday it will work with DAS through a research partnership aimed at bringing together procurement professionals, university professors and students who have been educated in machine learning.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 24, 2020 — Matt Kraning, co-founder and chief technology officer of Expanse, said the ongoing pandemic highlights urgency of a rigorous asset inventory and management approach for government information technology organizations to understand attack surfaces, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 17.

Michael Crouse, a user protection specialist at Forcepoint, has said agencies should incorporate user and data protection approaches into their overall security strategy. In a GCN guest piece published Monday, Crose offers three questions agency leaders can ask to pinpoint privileged access management challenges and suggests potential measures to address such issues.

BWX Technologies and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have teamed up to develop 3D printing technology for the production of metallic compounds needed to build a nuclear reactor system.

Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space unit has embarked on a project to develop a threat detection approach for military aircraft operators that will fuse electronic warfare, cyber and signals intelligence tools into a single open-architecture system, dubbed Converged EW.

ViaSat has secured a potential $50.8M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the Air Force Research Laboratory build and demonstrate prototype space systems.

Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services and a five-time Wash100 Award recipient, said the heightened awareness about election security fueled collaborative efforts between federal and state agencies to protect voting systems, SearchSecurity reported Thursday.

Government agencies should follow the example of large commercial enterprises in modernizing information technology infrastructure with hybrid cloud computing architectures, writes IBM Chief Information Officer Fletcher Previn. In a blog post published Wednesday, he outlines a three-step framework the company has devised with the intent to help public sector leaders ensure agency systems are “Tomorrow Ready.”

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 20, 2020 — Jerry Dotson, vice president of Avaya's (NYSE: AVYA) public sector business, suggested five ways for the Department of Defense to help its remote workers manage communications and collaboration, GovCon Wire reported Monday.

Timothy Herrick, vice president of global product programs at General Motors, has been appointed to serve as president of GM Defense on an interim basis. He will lead the military vehicle manufacturing business until the company finds a permanent replacement for David Albritton, who exited GM Defense to join Amazon Web Services as VP of global communications for public sector and vertical industries.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is soliciting ideas for how interested vendors can update and maintain a data analytics technology in the intelligence community's Commercial Cloud Service and Unclassified C2S environments, according to a request for information notice posted Tuesday.

A Raytheon Technologies-led team will help the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency mature software for the second phase of a military planning technology being developed to support the agency's Mosaic Warfare strategy. Raytheon BBN Technologies aims to further develop a decision aid platform as part of DARPA's Adapting Cross-Domain Kill-Webs program to help commanders determine available resources or assets across air, space, land, maritime and cyber domains, the company said Tuesday.

Cambridge has received a two-year, $11.7M U.S. Navy task order to help Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic define technical requirements for military control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.