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A Teledyne Technologies business has unveiled two new ruggedized gallium nitride, high electron mobility transistors designed for high-reliability space, avionics and military applications. The 30-amp TDG650E30B and 15-amp TDG650E15B GaN HEMTs are the latest additions to Teledyne e2v HiRel’s family of 650-volt products based on GaN Systems’ technology.

Octo has appointed Letitia “Tish” Long, a former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, to the company's board of directors. Long's appointment will place greater focus on the Intelligence Community (IC) as Octo's core customer. “Having Long on our Board of Directors is a massive boon to our ability to understand and support the Intelligence Community,” said Mehul Sanghani, CEO of Octo. 

BAE Systems has introduced a product suite the company designed to protect military vehicles and systems from cyber threats. The Fox Shield offering is comprised of tools that can work with ground, aerial and space platforms to help defense customers safeguard mission technologies.

Orolia Defense and Security has secured a $1.7M contract to supply multiple simulators for U.S. military personnel to test GPS receivers designed to integrate with positioning, navigation and timing equipment.

Amyx has announced its response to the COVID-19 pandemic to maintain the rapid spread of the disease and its effects by supporting front-line response agencies and enabling the procurement of critical medical supplies to medical response activities, the company reported on Friday. 

Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, has partnered with commercial technology companies Red Hat and VMware to secure a $957M contract under Cyber TRIDENT, the company reported on Wednesday.

KBR has received a $63.9M task order from the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center to develop interoperability solutions to expand the U.S. military's testing and training capabilities, the company announced on Monday.

Akima has secured a five-year, $101.3M contract from the Army Field Support Battalion at Fort Hood, Texas to provide logistics support for the service branch, the company announced on Tuesday. 

Inmarsat is seeking to meet increased U.S. military and commercial demand for more bandwidth in the Middle East and Europe with its Global Xpress 5 communications satellite, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “GX5, adding to that mix, looks at an area where we’ve got increased and significant demand. It is a very, very dense environment for commercial as well as military," said Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government.

General Motors’ vision for its defense segment is to “reimagine” ways of turning its commercial vehicles and other technology products into platforms that could be offered to the U.S. military and allied forces, Defense One reported Thursday.

Todd Hicks, chief technology officer at Leonardo DRS, told C4ISRNET in an interview published Monday how industry helps the military address cyber challenges.

Raytheon has created a virtual software factory in a move to accelerate the company's process of developing and delivering software platforms to military customers. "In a world where threats evolve fast, software must evolve faster," said Todd Probert, vice president of Raytheon's intelligence, information and services business.

A Frost & Sullivan report forecasts the military training and simulation market will grow from $9.28B to $19.65B by 2027, National Defense reported Monday.

Honeywell will provide a satellite communications system for U.S. military transport aircraft as part of the Department of Defense-managed Fixed Installation Satellite Antenna program. Honeywell said Monday its Ku-band JetWave system is designed to work with Inmarsat's Global Xpress satellite network to provide global connectivity for the U.S. Air Force's C-17 Globemaster III planes.

Frank Strickland, managing director at Deloitte Consulting, told Government Matters in a video interview posted Thursday that there are several challenges military decision-makers should consider as they look to use artificial intelligence to build up readiness and one is asking the right questions.