Technology

Ken Possenriede, chief financial officer of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has said the company forecasts $5B worth of programs within the next couple years to produce hypersonic technology platforms, Inside Defense reported Thursday.

The Air Force has issued a presolicitation notice to seek information on a new aircraft to replace its fleet of legacy E-4B National Airborne Operations Center planes. A notice posted Wednesday on beta SAM website says the proposed Survivable Airborne Operations Center Weapon System aircraft will be a key National Military Command System component in support of the president, defense secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the remarks of Michael Griffin, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a 2019 Wash100 award winner, at a Chamber of Commerce event held Tuesday. Griffin said the Pentagon must have a dedicated proliferated LEO system or constellation of small satellites in low-Earth orbit designed for the existential U.S. survival mission.

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new service, center and a program in an effort to further push the development of quantum computing technologies.

Cybersecurity company Kasada has raised $7M from In-Q-Tel and other investors in a Series A funding round meant to further develop and facilitate the delivery of a platform designed to protect organizations from malicious bot attacks.

Phil Pitsky, vice president of federal operations at Dedrone, said the company has "grand visions" about the potential use of an unmanned aircraft system countermeasure technology, Inside Defense reported Friday. He was referring to DroneDefender, an anti-small UAS system the San Francisco-based firm acquired from Battelle in October.

Rob Roy, public sector chief technology officer at Micro Focus Government Solutions, has said machine learning and cloud platforms could help government agencies protect their networks from cybersecurity breaches and achieve efficiency.

The General Services Administration plans to implement e-marketplace platforms to help agencies speed up the procurement of products online and Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) are expressing interest in gaining a share of that market that could reach $50B annually, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal at Gigamon, has said government agencies should have pervasive visibility into their virtual and physical networks, cloud environments and encrypted traffic to quickly detect breaches and defend their information technology infrastructure against adversaries.

The U.S. Navy has named the winners of four prize challenges for mission payload design concepts as part of a program to develop a ship-based unmanned aerial system for Marine Air Group Task Forces.