Carahsoft Technology will distribute Coupa’s budgeting platform across the public sector through the former’s existing contracts with federal, state and local governments and industry partners. Coupa’s Spend Management offering is designed to help users oversee expenses, reduce associated risks and address unique public sector requirements through a unified platform, Carahsoft said Thursday. The distributor will […] More

Fortem Technologies has entered its artificial intelligence-enabled and radar-guided drone in a recent U.S. Army test and demonstrated its ability to intercept and capture threat drones autonomously and deposited the seized aircraft to a designated drop zone and landing. The company said Thursday its DroneHunter technology, which was integrated with a Forward Area Air Defense […] More

Joseph Maguire, former acting director of national intelligence and a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined the board of advisers at venture-backed Orchestra Macrosystems. The 36-year Navy veteran joins Orchestra’s advisory board to help guide the Houston-based predictive analytics software vendor in business development and growth initiatives, the company said Thursday. Maguire noted that […] More

William McGann, chief technology officer for Leidos’ security detection and automation business, has joined Quantum Computing Inc. as a member of the board of directors. Robert Liscouski, chairman, president and CEO of QCI, said in a statement published Thursday that the company will use McGann’s knowledge and insight to support its application of quantum computing […] More

Advanced Space, in collaboration with NASA, completed a series of simulations for a technology demonstration mission aimed at testing the dynamics of a unique lunar orbit that have not been tested in spaceflight yet.  The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment team worked on the virtually simulated flights of a microwave-oven sized […] More

Northrop Grumman’s Space Logistics subsidiary plans to launch a robotic satellite servicing vehicle in 2024, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The Mission Robotic Vehicle is equipped with a robotic arm developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and is designed to install small propulsion equipment to extend the lives of satellites in the geostationary orbit by […] More

Computing services provider EDJX has teamed up with Cubic on the development of an edge platform intended to provide military and civilian first responders with an end-to-end internet of things technology to support decision making from base to battlefield. The Internet of Military Things edge platform will be built to deliver increased data security and […] More

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded military tent manufacturer Camel Expeditionary a $50 million contract to produce light maintenance enclosure structures for use mostly by the U.S. Army. The LMEs are designed to house military vehicles such as the Army’s M1 Abrams tanks and high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles in any weather conditions, the Pioneer, […] More

Northrop Grumman conducted a virtual training event that gathered air mobility forces from the U.S. Air Force, Canada, Australia and New Zealand for a synthetic exercise that included training opportunities for tactical maneuver against adversary threats. The Coalition Virtual Guardian 2021 event was executed to provide USAF Air Mobility Command with a fully virtual environment […] More

The government-focused subsidiary of Ethereum blockchain technology provider Sysorex has booked over $16 million in new contracts for product and services in support of the departments of Agriculture and Justice. Sysorex Government Services received the awards in the third quarter of 2021 from DOJ’s Bureau of Prisons and USDA’s U.S. Forest Service and Food Safety […] More

An official from NASA said the space agency is reviewing proposals on the establishment of private space stations in line with its plan to retire the International Space Station by possibly the end of the decade, CNBC reported Monday. Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight at NASA, said the agency has obtained “roughly about a […] More

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business has unveiled a 178,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in McKinney, Texas, and announced plans to open a larger facility in the city by 2025 to provide new offices, production and laboratory spaces. “Our new Advanced Integration and Manufacturing Center and plans for greater expansion reflect a deliberate strategy to transform ourselves […] More