Technology

Raytheon Technologies' Collins Aerospace business has been selected to provide a backup system to support  Federal Emergency Management Agency communications in the event of a critical situation.

The U.S. Air Force will host a virtual pitch day on Monday, June 15, to allow government officials, industry stakeholders, academia and small businesses to discuss and advance the development of quantum technologies in support of warfighters.

Todd Gustafson, president of HP’s federal arm, wrote in an article published Tuesday on FedTech Magazine that there are three steps federal agencies should take to improve their cybersecurity posture as they pursue information technology modernization and the first is developing a comprehensive cybersecurity plan.

Logic Soft and Automated Insights have teamed up to introduce the latter's natural language generation platform to the public sector market in a push to help agencies gain insights from key data trends.

FLIR Systems and STS International have helped the Department of Defense implement a thermal imaging camera-equipped system to screen people entering the Pentagon Visitors Center for elevated skin temperature as part of COVID-19 prevention measures.

A team of Google security professionals has found that advanced persistent threat groups working for Iran and China targeted the election campaigns of President Donald Trump and political rival Joe Biden.

U.S. Special Operations Command has issued a request for information on new signals intelligence technology platforms and scheduled a test event for the week of Sept. 21 at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Indiana.

Lloyd Howell, chief financial officer of Booz Allen Hamilton, told the Washington Business Journal in an interview published Friday that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the need to continue supporting investments in several technology areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and cloud.

Intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel has invested in and partnered with Deepgram to help bring the latter's speech recognition technology to the government. 

Honeywell and the U.S. Army have agreed to test-fly a Chinook helicopter with a new variant of the company's T55 engine to demonstrate the motor's power output and fuel consumption. The 6,000-horespower machine is designed to generate 25 percent more power and consume 10 percent less fuel than the current model.

Geospark Analytics has been selected to provide a technology platform for Department of Homeland Security personnel to analyze potential risks and threats from global events.

A group running the DopplePaymer ransomware announced in a blog post that they hacked the network of Digital Management Inc., one of NASA’s information technology contractors, ZDNet reported Wednesday.

Summit 7 Systems announced a partnership with AvePoint on the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.

ExtraHop and CrowdStrike have partnered to integrate cloud-based technology offerings in a push to help government and business customers address network or endpoint security threats. The integration of Reveal(x) and Falcon will allow users to fully monitor networks, detect threats via machine learning and extract metadata, Extrahop said Wednesday.

BlackBerry and Dedrone has partnered to incorporate alerting software into platforms built to help customers detect and counter drone threats. The AtHoc notification technology will allow users of Dedrone's counter-drone technology to receive alerts when  unauthorized and hostile unmanned aircraft systems are operating over a site's airspace, BlackBerry said Wednesday.