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An Austal USA-led team has tested the U.S. Navy's 12th Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport vessel at sea, completing the last phase of the military shipbuilding project before delivery.

Raytheon Technologies has unveiled a data-centric software based on zero-trust architecture that works to ensure configuration security and protect applications and data at various operating system layers.

Hermeus has received a $1.5M contract from the U.S. Air Force to evaluate the possible modification of its Mach 5 aircraft into a presidential plane, FlightGlobal reported Thursday.

Two executives from Planet and L3Harris Technologies have cited electronic components and thermal management systems as key factors to the improvement of small-satellite technologies in the market, SpaceNews reported Thursday.

Wendi Whitmore, vice president of a team working on threat intelligence and incident response at IBM, said the company’s Cost of a Data Breach report shows a connection between the adoption of security automation and orchestration practices and reduced data breach costs, Nextgov reported Thursday.

The Transportation Security Administration is looking for information on identity verification approaches to support the agency’s vetting procedures for passengers without physical identification documents.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 7, 2020 — BAE Systems received its first order under a potential $823M U.S. Army indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to apply an analytics software framework into the branch's Distributed Common Ground System, GovCon Wire reported July 24.

U.S. Special Operations Command and its partnership with the DefenseWerx nonprofit organization will jointly host a four-day virtual event to inform companies about an upcoming project to develop a system for data collection and analysis.

Acquired Data Solutions and KDM Analytics have partnered to market an automated cyber risk analysis and measurement platform to federal agencies and equipment providers.

BayFirst Solutions announced on Thursday that the company has been selected as an awardee of the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Pool 4 for its One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) Small Business (SB) contract vehicle.

Unisys has secured a potential seven-year, $36.2M contract to update and migrate an information technology system at the Nevada Department of Public Safety's records, communications and compliance division into a cloud computing environment designed for the government sector.

KBR has won a potential five-year, $75M contract from the U.S. Navy to support construction projects at a naval expeditionary base and a military airstrip located in Djibouti, Africa.

A Zscaler platform built to secure access to the internet and software-as-a-service applications has been designated "In Process" under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

Deloitte, California Polytechnic State University, economic impact organization REACH, the U.S. Space Force’s 30th Space Wing and the state of California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development have signed a memorandum of understanding to come up with a master plan to strengthen commercial space operations in California.

General Dynamics's NASSCO subsidiary has won a potential $63M contract to help the U.S. Navy modernize, repair and maintain the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Lake Erie.