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The State Department announced that the Trump administration approved a policy change to reinterpret an arms control agreement in order to facilitate exports of unmanned aerial systems designed for military use and help U.S. allies meet their national security requirements.

The technical solutions division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has made an equity investment in Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics.

David York, senior vice president of the U.S. public sector at Genesys, said implementing cloud platforms and artificial intelligence could help government agencies improve the customer experience even in a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.

Several GovCon industry leaders told C4ISRNET in an interview published Sunday about their insights on the Department of Defense’s efforts to integrate capabilities in support of information warfare operations.

The U.S. Army’s Synthetic Training Environment (STE) Cross-Functional Team (CFT) is establishing new labs to increase the innovation of vendors and improve individual and collective training, the Army News Service reported Tuesday.

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy recently discussed how cloud-based services have expanded the at-home economy in the COVID-19 era, the rapid growth of cloud and the innovation stemming from cloud services.  “In the first half dozen years or so of AWS you mostly saw startups using the platform. What's happened over the last seven or eight years is that the enterprise and the public sector have started to adopt AWS and the cloud in a very pervasive way,” Jassy said.

Jonathan Alboum, principal digital strategist for the federal government at ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), said  digitizing workflows could help government agencies enable their employees deliver seamless customer experiences to citizens during a crisis. “It’s important to digitize office workflows ahead of time so that those processes can seamlessly transition to telework environments when a crisis hits,” Alboum wrote.

The Department of Defense has signed $84.4M in agreements with seven companies under the Defense Production Act Title III to retain employees and strengthen domestic industrial base capabilities in small unmanned aerial systems, shipbuilding and space technology sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Department of Defense has selected Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to provide a command-and-control technology for interim use by the U.S. military to defend against small unmanned aerial systems. The selection of Northrop's Forward Area Air Defense C2 system came after a service board evaluated "best of breed" offerings that could support joint Counter-sUAS  missions, the company said Wednesday.

David Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s North American public sector business, explained in a video interview posted Thursday on FedScoop how a multicloud portfolio approach to information technology helps accelerate digital transformation efforts in the federal government.