Government Technology

Anduril Industries and Australia’s defense force have agreed to partner on a three-year, $100 million program to design, build and manufacture extra large autonomous undersea vehicles for the Australian navy. Anduril said Wednesday it will use its Agile development approach to develop and deliver three XL-AUV prototypes to the Royal Australian navy. XL-AUV will be […] More

Lockheed Martin has tapped Aerojet Rocketdyne to provide its missiles and fire control business with a second stage booster that will be used to power a hypersonic weapon system being developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday it will develop a solid rocket motor booster for DARPA’s Operational Fires initiative […] More

RSA’s SecurID subsidiary has received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a cloud-based technology product built to secure digital identities and access to information technology applications. The SecurID Federal platform has been granted a FedRAMP moderate designation and supports 325 security and privacy controls in accordance with guidelines established by the […] More

BAE Systems has developed a new head-up display to provide commercial and military aircraft pilots with a lightweight and compact technology for flight situational awareness. The recently unveiled LiteWave platform is powered by the company-patented waveguide technology, allows for digital display adjustment to align with the pilot’s flying position and has the size of a […] More

Lockheed Martin has completed the production of the first AN/TPY-4 radar, a multimission system that can detect existing and emerging threats and operate in contested radio frequency environments. TPY-4 is a software-defined radar system that is available in transportable and fixed variants and complies with open software, hardware and interface standards to facilitate integration, Lockheed […] More

In-Q-Tel has agreed to invest in Weaveworks to help the software company further develop its application delivery and security automation platform for use in U.S. intelligence and defense missions. Weaveworks seeks to bring its technology to the government sector to help agencies manage and secure applications in on-premise or cloud computing environments, the company said […] More

In the Department of Defense’s near future, John Sherman, the department’s chief information officer and acting chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, said multiple modernization efforts will ideally converge to fully bring the DOD into the digital age and help ensure the country’s technical advantage. “In a few years, our software modernization efforts will fully continue […] More

The Department of Defense and its Detroit-based manufacturing innovation institute LIFT have awarded a Hypersonics Challenge project to Raytheon Technologies. Raytheon will study how modeling and simulation could help accelerate the development of high-temperature materials for hypersonic systems, LIFT said Wednesday. Andreas Roelofs, vice president of research at Raytheon and director of the Raytheon Technologies […] More

An electronic warfare system Northrop Grumman is developing for the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 aircraft fleet will undergo a series of verification tests. A rigorous testing program for the Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite will aim to verify hardware and software before the service branch flies the new technology on its combat jet, Northrop said […] More

American Systems and U.S. Navy engineers have developed a system designed to aid helicopter pilots during degraded visual environment landings. The company said Tuesday the Low-Speed Precision Control system is a hardware and software platform that works to reduce pilot workload during approaches into DVE conditions such as brownouts. During a demonstration at the Naval […] More