Government Technology

KBR has announced the availability on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Marketplace of its cloud-based platform designed to facilitate the collection, archival, distribution and review of surveillance evidence gathered by mobile users. KBR Vaault for Public Safety Video Evidence is a commercial cloud and mission service offering that could help organizations consolidate, retrieve, […] More

Defense ministers from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will allocate approximately $28 million in funding to explore novel platforms for their future helicopters under NATO’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability project. The six allies will work with industry to study open systems architecture, hybrid and electric propulsion and other options as they […] More

A new SolarWinds report indicates that three-quarters of government information technology professionals surveyed within the U.S. and Canada are looking to adopt hybrid IT strategies over the next three years. The software company said Tuesday that the SolarWinds IT Trends Report’s public sector segment covered responses from 79 North America-based tech specialists and aimed to determine how their departments […] More

Northrop Grumman performed a ground demonstration of a laser communications system as part of a prototype satellite constellation for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The company said Tuesday Mynaric supplied the laser communications in the space domain and Innoflight provided encryption, decryption and other components of its prototype architecture. […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business tested a next generation Troposcatter system designed to provide the U.S. Army with beyond-line-of-sight communications capability for command and control operations. Several modernized AN/TRC-244(V)1 Troposcatters were demonstrated by Raytheon Intelligence & Space over a five-week period to verify long range BLOS connectivity in multiple operational environments, the company said […] More

Aptima will equip the U.S. Navy with a data-driven tracking and training management system designed to support surface warfighter readiness through the collection and synthesizing of sailor performance and qualifications information. The Surface Combat Systems Training Command placed a delivery order for the Aptima-made Surface Training and Readiness Management System to help assess, monitor and […] More

The Department of Veteran Affairs has launched the Pathfinder website in an effort to provide business entities looking to partner with the agency a virtual point of entry as well as to enhance customer experience. VA said June 7 interested vendors can use the site to introduce themselves or their organization and present ideas, products, services and […] More

Wes Kremer, president of the missiles and defense unit at Raytheon Technologies, said air-breathing scramjet technology offers a low-cost approach to power hypersonic weapons. A scramjet engine uses the air around it to generate propulsion and relies on high speed to sustain flight operation, the company said Monday. Kremer cited Raytheon’s work with Northrop Grumman […] More

HII demonstrated coordinated operations of manned and unmanned maritime vehicles as part of an internal research and development initiative meant to advance mission-critical technology platforms to support national security clients. The launch and recovery demonstration held on June 8 in the Pascagoula River in Mississippi involved the use of HII’s Pharos prototype platform and the […] More

SRI International has received a $300,000 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to examine supply chain challenges and investment opportunities for the quantum manufacturing industry. The nonprofit research organization intends to work with companies, academic institutions and national laboratories to determine what forces can affect advancements in quantum hardware development, SRI said […] More