Amazon has teamed up with real estate investment trust company JBG Smith to help build a new headquarters at National Landing in Arlington, Va. JBG said Tuesday it will provide Amazon exclusive rights to buy land properties and lease space at it... Read more
NASA has issued a request for information on potential switch designs for a communication payload network as part of the agency’s Laser Optical Near-Earth Satellite System project. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday, the agency encourage... Read more
General Dynamics’ ordnance and tactical systems business has won a one-year, $14.4M contract to provide ground mobility vehicles and related kits to the U.S. Army. Army Contracting Command received three proposals for the firm-fixed-price contra... Read more
A team of Lockheed Martin engineers has commanded NASA‘s OSIRIS-REx space probe to move a robotic sampling arm designed to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu. Lockheed said Friday its engineering team tested movements of the Touch-an... Read more
Lockheed Martin has received a potential $83.1M contract from Naval Air Systems Command to develop, integrate, certify and test a “dual capable” aircraft system for the U.S. Air Force F-35A jets. The Air Force will obligate $24.6M in... Read more
Red Hat has selected Carahsoft Technology as a recipient of the Public Sector Distribution Partner of the Year award for the fifth year in a row. Carahsoft said Thursday the award recognizes its efforts to drive net revenue and support for Red H... Read more
Science Applications International Corp. has obtained a Government Competency designation from Amazon Web Services as a provider of cloud offerings to the public sector. SAIC said Thursday the status recognizes the company’s services and e... Read more
Northrop Grumman, the mission package integrator for the U.S. Navy‘s Littoral Combat Ship program, will serve as a “captain level” sponsor to the commissioning of an 11th LCS. The company said Thursday it provided mission modul... Read more
Lockheed Martin has introduced a potential five-year, $30M scholarship initiative to help college and high school students pursue degrees in computer science and engineering. The company said Thursday its science, technology, engineering and mat... Read more
HighPoint Global expects to create 60 jobs over the next three years as part of a push to expand operations of its digital subsidiary in Indianapolis, Ind. The company said Thursday it will hire instructional design, project management, systems... Read more
Multinational tech firm Cisco Systems is partnering with North Carolina to launch the CyberVetsUSA program to connect the state government with the industry to train veterans for jobs in the cybersecurity field. The office of the governor said W... Read more
Jacobs Engineering Group has received a potential 10-year, $62M contract to modernize, manage and sustain wastewater facilities in Waterbury, Conn. The contract’s scope of work includes modernization of the city’s watershed system, a... Read more
Serco Inc., the British contractor’s North American arm, has processed 4M patent applications for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The company said Thursday its intellectual property team has helped USPTO analyze drawings, specificati... Read more
Fortinet’s threat research arm predicts cyber adversaries will exploit artificial intelligence and machine learning to launch attacks on organizations’ networks and other information technology infrastructure in 2019 and beyond. Researchers from... Read more
Lockheed Begins Construction Work on X-59 Supersonic Aircraft
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division has started to build a supersonic demonstrator aircraft at its facility in Palmdale, Calif., under a potential $247.5M contract that NASA awarded in April. The X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft is d... Read more