Government Technology

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has added new automation and optimization features to the Earth observation service chain of an orchestrated satellite ground system. The company said Thursday its Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Service Chain or EO/RS SC now works to automate service delivery tasks for the OpenSpace Platform, a fully virtualized ground system. […] More

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has chosen Microsoft’s Azure Quantum cloud ecosystem to speed up the scheduling of spacecraft communications. The company’s Azure Quantum team created a product designed to address JPL’s scheduling issues associated with the Deep Space Network, which NASA uses to communicate with spacecraft, Anita Ramanan, a senior software engineer for the Azure […] More

Datadog has secured clearance under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a platform offering designed to help government customers monitor information technology applications as they transition to cloud infrastructure. The Department of Veterans Affairs acted as the company’s sponsor agency for FedRAMP authorization of its cloud observability platform at the moderate impact level, […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has partnered with Australia-based Hypersonix Launch Systems to demonstrate a 3D printed hypersonic drone powered by a hydrogen scramjet engine. The autonomous DART AE drone with a fifth-generation SPARTAN engine will use high-temperature materials and is the team’s proposal to the Australian government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative, Kratos said Tuesday. Kratos […] More

The Bell–Boeing team has finished changing the structure of and updating wiring components within the nacelles of a U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey aircraft at the Amarillo Assembly Center in Texas. The CV-22, a special operations variant of V-22, is the first Osprey to receive the Nacelle Improvements Modification, which is aimed at reducing maintenance […] More

Cisco has invested in General Dynamics Information Technology‘s 5G technology research and development platform as part of a partnership agreement centered around advancing wireless connectivity tools and services. GDIT said Wednesday its 5G Emerge Lab will have access to equipment and support from the San Jose, California-based networking company to help the IT business create […] More

Red Hat has partnered with stackArmor to use the latter’s offering to speed up the process of achieving authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud service on Amazon Web Services. “We are pleased to collaborate with stackArmor to help us accelerate the FedRAMP ATO for Red Hat OpenShift […] More

A survey of federal chief information officers and information technology leaders conducted by the Professional Services Council and Maximus has found that many agencies intend to shift from manual operations to business processes driven by automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The 2021 Federal CIO Survey report showed that agency officials highlighted the need for […] More