Verizon Business has expanded its portfolio of networking tools with the launch of a private 5G network offering designed to provide business and government customers with Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband connection capabilities. The company said Thursday the On Site 5G private network is capable of supporting different operational environments, including those that are not within […] More
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has completed a recent flight test of a sensor aboard the Virgin Galactic-made VSS Unity spacecraft and demonstrated its ability to assess the inside conditions of a suborbital space vehicle and its payload. The JHU APL Integrated Universal Suborbital platform was able to specify VSS Unity’s electromagnetic field environment […] More
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions contributed ballistic and airborne targets in support of a multi-national exercise through which the U.S. Navy, NATO and allied forces demonstrated integrated air and missile defense. Formidable Shield 2021 took place from May 15 to June 2 at the Scotland-based Hebrides Range of the U.K.’s defense ministry and leveraged Kratos-built […] More
Bridget Lauderdale, vice president and general manager of the F-35 program at Lockheed Martin, said the company is seeing the recovery of the F-35 fighter jet supply chain after a year of factory closures and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Defense One reported Thursday. “We’re seeing the return of a good portion of the […] More
Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, has asked Congress for $79.8 million in his fiscal year 2022 unfunded priority list to fund testing of new terminal prototypes that can connect with multiple commercial constellations. The requested amount would continue testing of SpaceX and OneWeb low-Earth-orbit satellite […] More
Iridium Communications is participating in a series of field exercises that aim to demonstrate the satelite communication capabilities of a range of applications in the polar regions. The company said Thursday it will field its satcom technologies across exercises involving remote environment, at-the-halt, on-base and communications-on-the-move scenarios during Operation Arctic Lynx. The event, scheduled to […] More
Leonardo handed over the first TH-73A helicopter to the U.S. Navy for training the branch’s tiltrotor and rotary-wing aviators, as part of a $171 million initial aircraft production contract awarded in January 2020. The Advanced Helicopter Training System, which is derived from the AgustaWestland AW119 Koala, will replace the TH-57B/C Sea Ranger used by military […] More
CynergisTek’s Redspin subsidiary has received approval from the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body to perform audit work to determine the cyber readiness level of contractors before they do business with the Department of Defense. Redspin said Wednesday it became the first CMMC third-party assessment organization after the Austin-based security audit services provider completed maturity […] More
Raytheon Technologies and Huntington Ingalls Industries are working to install four naval radar arrays on the U.S. Navy’s USS Jack H. Lucas guided missile destroyer to provide the newly launched ship with threat detection capability. DDG-125, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that is the first to apply the Flight III configuration, will feature the SPY-6 radar […] More
Tim Rod, chief technology officer of Red River, said he sees security technologies and software-defined wide area network as some of the emerging technologies that will have a major impact on the federal government’s operations in the coming years. He told FedScoop in an interview posted Wednesday that the shift to remote work and supply […] More
