The Army Research Laboratory has selected composable infrastructure provider Liqid to build a pair of supercomputing systems with Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) Xeon processors and NVIDIA's (Nasdaq: NVDA) Ampere graphics processing units as part of a technology refresh initiative at ARL's Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center....
Qualtrics, an experience management platform developer acquired by SAP (NYSE: SAP) in 2018, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its planned initial public offering and will trade on Nasdaq using the ticker symbol “XM,” CNBC reported Monday. Qualtrics said in its SEC filing it will sell shares at $20 to $24 apiece through the IP...
The House voted 322-87 Monday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the $740.5B National Defense Authorization Act, Politico reported. The Senate is set to reconvene Tuesday to consider the annual defense policy bill, which Trump rejected a week ago over provisions that would remove from military installations the names of Confederate leade...
The U.S. Navy has issued a solicitation for a contract to design, develop and fabricate two prototypes under the Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle program. The program executive office for unmanned and small combatants at Naval Sea Systems Command expects to receive proposals for the LDUUV program, also called Snakehead, in early 2021....
President Donald Trump has signed a $2.3T spending package that would allocate $900B in funds for COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts and $1.4T to support government operations through the end of September, Bloomberg reported Monday....
Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics segment has received a one-year, $96.5M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to perform F-35 aircraft modification and reachback engineering work....
Magellan Health's federal subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $111M contract to provide work-life services to Department of Defense employees. The company will help the Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service manage an employee assistance program under the indefinite-delivery/indefinitely-quantity contract....
The State Department has cleared Kazakhstan's request to buy King Air B300ER Scorpion multimission aircraft along with related intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment from the U.S. government through a potential $128.1M foreign military sales transaction....
During Potomac Officers Club’s 7th Annual Defense Research and Development (R&D) Summit, notable federal and industry leaders will meet to discuss the latest priorities across the R&D landscape. Featuring Dr. Victoria Coleman, director of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), as keynote speaker, the summit will also address...
Pfizer has entered into an agreement with the departments of Health and Human Services and Defense to provide 100M more doses of the messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine that the company developed with pharmaceutical firm BioNTech....
