NASA’s Stennis Space Center has launched an autonomous systems payload aboard Sidus Space’s LizzieSat-1, or LS-1, small satellite. Carried into space on the SpaceX Transporter 10 rideshare mission, the Autonomous Satellite Technology for
Vice Adm. James Downey has assumed leadership of Naval Sea Systems Command during a change-of-command ceremony held at the Washington Navy Yard. He succeeds Rear Adm. Thomas Anderson, who was named acting
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Garrett Berntsen, director for technology and national security at the National Security Council since June 2023, has joined the State Department as deputy chief data and artificial intelligence officer. “Same great team
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U.S. Army officials are exploring rapid deployment approaches for a “launched effects” prototype based around the Air-Launched, Tube-Integrated Unmanned System 700, or Altius 700, design by Area-I, an Anduril company, Breaking Defense
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General Dynamics‘ information technology division has secured a $17.8 million contract modification to help the U.S. Air Force manage the Distributed Common Ground System network weapon system. GDIT will support the 480th
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The Department of Transportation has established a new advisory committee tasked with providing insights and recommendations — as well as approaches to improve — transportation innovation to the department’s leadership. The Transforming
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has expanded the leadership team of its Division of Data, or DOD, with the appointment of Ted Kaouk as chief data officer and director of DOD and
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The Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations has adopted a new name to reflect its collaborative mission to use commercial space domain awareness capabilities. Now known as the Joint Commercial Operations, or
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The Boeing-built X-37B unmanned experimental orbital test vehicle launched on its seventh mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral to test and demonstrate technologies
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The U.S. Navy’s Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate, or IWTSD, has released a broad agency announcement seeking research proposals in areas of advanced development and explosive ordnance disposal and explosive operations. A
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NASA has launched 14 Flight Opportunities research payloads aboard Blue Origin‘s New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket to help researchers test new technologies and materials for space applications. Among the payloads launched on
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