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Mocana has been awarded a $1.5M contract to develop a cybersecurity technology for embedded military systems through the second phase of the U.S. Air Force's Small Business Innovation Research program.

Accenture Federal Services (AFS), a subsidiary of Accenture, has been awarded one of eight spots on a potential five-year, $990 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (IDIQ) to help the U.S. Air Force manage and execute enterprise-wide transformation efforts, the company announced Wednesday.

Persistent Systems has demonstrated its mobile ad-hoc networking technology as part of a U.S. Army initiative to explores the potential of an optionally manned vehicle to control multiple robotic units. The branch envisions teaming between an optionally manned fighting vehicle and support robotic combat vehicles through the RCV program, the company said Tuesday.

Intact has secured a five-year contract under the General Services Administration's Information Technology Schedule 70 contract through a partnership with CenturyLink to provide cloud services to government customers.

Dataminr has secured a three-month, $12.2M contract from the U.S. Air Force to deliver web-based news alerts that will inform authorized Department of Defense personnel about events worldwide.

SpaceX has launched a new wave of satellites for the company's broadband internet service, cnet reported Tuesday. The company sent the Starlink satellites Tuesday via ride-share from Florida-based Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Mercury Systems has been granted a U.S. patent for a method to avoid cyberattacks on electronic control units and other systems that use a controller area network.

Boeing has added a 20th F/A-18 Super Hornet from the U.S. Navy to a program aimed at extending the service life expectancy of the branch's multirole fighter jets.

Frank Dimina, vice president of public sector at Splunk, wrote in a Nextgov article published Tuesday that providing government employees and citizens access to data through the concept of data democracy could help agencies improve customer experience and regain public trust.

Kelly Romano, a 27-year veteran of United Technologies Corp, has been named an operating partner of private equity firm AE Industrial Partners. She has led consulting firm BlueRipple Capital as CEO since 2016.

Cynthia Stuebner, defense industry principal at Pegasystems, discussed in an article published Tuesday on Federal News Network how automation could help the Department of Defense better manage its enterprise risk management systems, prevent errors and facilitate the decision-making process.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded cloud services and software development company Nalej a five-year, $14.9M contract to provide DevOps support for the service branch’s efforts to prototype a systems integration tool.

Ball Aerospace has sent two small land imaging instruments to orbit for final flights as part of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey’s Landsat program.

Two Earth observation satellites operated by Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky subsidiary began to capture images within 58 hours of launch via a SpaceX rideshare mission.

Orbit Logic has received a contract to develop an enterprise technology for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to schedule environmental satellite and ground infrastructure operations.