ExecutiveBiz News on Video 8/31/2021

Technology industry veterans Ravi Aiyer and Shayne Forsyth have joined TechnoMile to serve as vice president of engineering and VP of marketing, respectively. TechnoMile said Tuesday the latest additions to its leadership team are part of the company’s efforts to further advance its cloud platform, accelerate growth initiatives and continue to support its client base. […]

Palantir USG has secured a $48.5 million contract modification to continue providing the U.S. Space Force with software licenses and cloud hosting for data-as-a-service platform offered by the company. The award also covers associated support and training services for each DaaS platform, the Department of Defense said Monday. Work under the modification will take place […]

NASA has tasked Ball Aerospace to study two architecture concepts designed to modernize instruments of Earth imagery satellites. The company said Monday it will assess how constellation and single satellite concepts can accommodate new spectral bands and orbit parameters as well as enhanced spatial resolution for the Landsat Next program.  Ball will seek to determine […]

Clint Crosier, a retired Air Force major general and director of aerospace and satellite team at Amazon Web Services, said he thinks high-performance computing is one of the use cases that the cloud is enabling in the space domain because it offers additional capability for digital engineering, digital modeling and simulation. “I think we will […]

Guidehouse has assumed responsibilities as the Fiscal Transfer Agent on behalf of the Small Business Administration’s 7(a) Loan Program and Secondary Market intended to provide financial loans to small businesses. Following the FTA Program transfer to SBA, the consulting firm will now provide loan and financial services and update technologies in support of SBA’s loan […]

Virgin Orbit and the Southwest Research Institute have partnered to look into combining the former’s LauncherOne rocket and the latter’s space mission development expertise to potentially pursue specialized mission opportunities. The partnership is exploring opportunities in joint SwRI platform manufacturing and services delivery to Virgin Orbit clients, and considering stewardship programs focused on the use […]

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions’ satellite ground system platform can now be deployed on Red Hat‘s private cloud environment in an effort to enable customers to securely operate signals when conducting satellite missions and operations. Kratos said Monday its OpenSpace platform intended for dynamic ground missions can be used on RedHat’s OpenStack cloud environment, allowing […]

Firefly Aerospace will lift off Rogue Space Systems‘ orbital transport vehicle in the third quarter of 2023 under a new launch service agreement signed between the two companies. Rogue Space said Monday it has secured the entire capacity aboard Firefly’s Alpha launch vehicle for the Fred OTV, which will carry satellites from Rogue Space customers. The agreement […]

Raytheon Technologies is applying modeling and simulation tools in an effort to understand threat scenarios associated with unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Wednesday its missiles and defense unit begins the simulation process with “the outer layers of air defense” to detect a possible drone threat before the UAS reaches a target such as a […]

Orolia Defense & Security has added a product to its portfolio of simulation technology platforms designed to help engineers create scenarios for testing global navigation satellite systems. The BroadSim Solo simulator is powered by the company’s Skydel software and can be placed on a desk or a workstation to help users emulate the environment of […]