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The Department of Defense has authorized cybersecurity software maker Anchore to offer the hardened version of its DevSecOps-based container security technology to support sensitive DoD programs.

Iridium Communications has awarded Relativity Space a contract to perform up to six on-demand launches to deliver ground spare satellites to low-Earth orbit.

Oracle has partnered with the city of Vallejo in California to deploy the company’s web-based community development tool to help simplify the delivery of construction permit services to constituents.

Yosry Barsoum, vice president and director of the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute at Mitre, has said that public-private partnerships can help improve management of the U.S. electromagnetic spectrum.

Science Applications International Corp. has secured a potential  five-year, $630 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force's 557th Weather Wing modernize hardware and software for its Technology Application Development and Sustainment system, the company announced Wednesday.

Fairbanks Morse has received a purchase order for four main propulsion systems to power an amphibious transport dock Huntington Ingalls Industries will build for the U.S. Navy as part of a potential $1.5B contract.

Unissant has secured a contract to help the U.S. Army's Medical Research and Development Command develop, test and deploy a cloud-based technology platform for managing health information.

The Shipbuilders Council of America has appointed Bollinger Shipyards CEO and President Ben Bordelon and Brad Moyer, a vice president at the BAE Systems repair business in Norfolk, Va., as board chairman and vice chairman, respectively.

York Space Systems has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to explore an approach to accelerate space imagery delivery with the use of commercial technology.

Fred Altimont, former managing director of Infor's federal health care business, has been named senior director of strategic alliances at Hollywood, Md.-based information technology company Smartronix, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday.

Dave Furneaux, an active member of the board of directors at Virsec Systems since 2014, has succeeded Atiq Raza as CEO of the San Jose, Calif-based security technology provider.

 

NASA is looking for potential sources of suborbital flight services to support the agency’s efforts to promote commercial involvement in its research and exploration missions.

Rich Uhlig, a senior fellow at Intel, wrote in an editorial published Tuesday that the company is advancing research on emerging technologies to improve learning and virtual work experiences, speed up pathogen surveillance and protect privacy in health data sharing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honeywell has started testing and collecting data on its sensor technology designed to support its urban air mobility platforms ahead of demonstration activities over the next year.

The International Astronomical Union has approved an official name for the Didymos asteroid system’s smaller moon that will serve as the target of an experiment by NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.