Government Technology

The Catalyst Accelerator, a Colorado-based industry accelerator sponsored by the U.S. Space Force and the Air Force Research Laboratory, has selected eight small businesses for a group tasked to help the service branch develop a hybrid data architecture. The accelerator said Friday its Hybrid Data Movement cohort will support USSF and AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate […] More

Arqit will aim to present defense use cases for the company’s quantum encryption technology under a cooperative research and development agreement signed with the Air Force Research Laboratory. The London-based data protection company said Friday it will update the QuantumCloud platform for a demonstration effort aimed at testing system performance, interoperability and endpoint security application […] More

  General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has flight-tested a new datalink capability that the U.S. Army is looking to equip on a future, modernized version of the Gray Eagle Extended Range unmanned aircraft system. The company said Thursday it demonstrated GE-ER’s ability to maintain link and accommodate high-bandwidth data rates with satellites in geostationary and […] More

ICEYE, a synthetic aperture radar satellite operator, has raised $136 million in a round of Series D financing and will use the capital to further develop its SAR satellite constellation and build up its analytics services. Seraphim Space led the funding round, which brings ICEYE’s total financing to $304 million and saw the participation of […] More

A federal laboratory within the Department of Homeland Security has begun to request information on the availability of a system that will work to measure radiation levels when emergency response personnel perform missions. The National Urban Security Technology Laboratory is conducting market research into mobile radiation detection technology under NUSTL’s System Assessment and Validation for […] More

Leland Brown and Anna Scott of Intel said there are four strategies the Department of Defense should consider to optimize the full potential of 5G technology in supporting soldiers on the battlefield and one is developing a software ecosystem to support 5G implementation. Brown and Scott wrote in a commentary published Wednesday on Defense News […] More

Satellogic and Palantir Technologies have formed a new partnership that grants the companies access to each other’s technologies to enhance satellite imaging, artificial intelligence and data analytics capabilities in support of their customers. Palantir’s Foundry platform will be used by Satellogic to speed up business processes, enterprise-wide data integration, satellite imagery delivery and AI training, […] More

Advanced Technology Systems Company has secured a five-year, $93.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for the second phase of a system designed to protect Egypt’s national borders. ATSC will build border surveillance equipment, fixed-site towers and a truck-based vehicle for Egypt’s Mobile Surveillance Sensor Security System program, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Northrop Grumman to prototype an artificial intelligence technology that would integrate with augmented reality platform to assist helicopter pilots in performing their tasks. The company will work with the University of Central Florida to develop the Operator and Context Adaptive Reasoning Intuitive Assistant under DARPA’s Perceptually-enabled Task […] More