Government Technology

Ensco will showcase its suite of technology offerings designed for military positioning, navigation and timing applications at an upcoming four-day conference in San Diego. The company said Wednesday its PNT platforms are designed to work in limited GPS settings and will be on display at exhibit booth 119 during the Institute of Navigation’s Joint Navigation […] More

In the wake of a worldwide semiconductor chip manufacturing shortage, U.S. government and industry leaders are looking for ways to rapidly ramp up domestic production while prioritizing continued innovation. As a result, academia is playing an increasingly vital role in the country’s microelectronics capabilities. In April 2022, the Department of Defense launched its “microelectronics commons,” […] More

A Series B funding round has brought in $25 million for Indigov, a startup that designed a multichannel communication platform for government officials to engage the public. The company said Thursday it plans to use the new capital to further develop its core product, explore use cases of the offering at all levels of government […] More

Todd Probert, president of national security and innovative solutions at CACI International, said the rapidly evolving threat landscape has pushed the Department of Defense to enter into public-private partnerships, adopt open architecture and develop software-driven capabilities. “Open architecture enables rapid deployment of new capabilities and helps ensure future modernization by emphasizing software over hardware,” Probert, […] More

Jeff Lessner, vice president of defense and intelligence systems division at Hughes Network Systems, said discussions at the recent Satellite 2022 conference highlighted the need for commercial technologies that can improve and deliver resiliency and security within the Department of Defense’s communications system. Lessner wrote in a blog post published Tuesday on Military Embedded Systems […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have launched the world’s first exascale supercomputer designed to accelerate discoveries in areas such as disease diagnosis and prognosis, new materials, drug discovery and renewable energy. The HPE-built Frontier supercomputer reached a performance of 1.1 exaflops, making it the world’s fastest supercomputer based […] More

Amazon Web Services has teamed up with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in an effort to identify the best approach for high-performance computing centers to utilize cloud technology. LLNL and AWS aim to produce a standardized software stack that will work in both cloud and on-premise supercomputer environments, the California-based federal research organization said Thursday. Both […] More

GitLab has expanded its comprehensive DevOps platform with the release of a major iteration designed to support users’ development and collaboration on business-critical code for secure software delivery. GitLab 15, starting with the 15.0 first release version, works to modernize the capabilities of The One DevOps Platform and is planned to enhance a user-customer’s continuous […] More

Pavilion Data Systems will employ its HyperOS storage operating system with HyperParallel Flash Array to help Los Alamos National Laboratory offload analytics functions from storage servers and move them to the array in an effort to minimize data movement. LANL looks to enable use of big data- or analytics community-made tools to perform data analytics […] More

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program has identified a light-based sail technology as a potential new space transportation tool. The diffractive solar sailing project was transitioned to phase III study, giving it the NIAC research and voting body’s distinction that it has the biggest capacity to yield positive results for NASA, other government departments or private sector […] More