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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded contracts to teams led by Accenture Federal Services, BlackSky Geospatial Solutions, Kitware and Systems & Technology Research to support a research program that aims to automate search and analysis of multisource satellite imagery. A test and evaluation team for the Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique program assessed and selected the awardees through a broad agency announcement.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will help NASA study electric currents across Earth’s atmosphere as part of a potential $53.3M space exploration mission the agency plans to launch by June 2024.

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received a $300M bilateral contract modification to perform additional systems engineering work for the U.S. Space Force.

Raquel “Rocky” Bono, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and former director of the Defense Health Agency, and Constantine “Costa” Saab, former chief strategy officer of the CIA, have joined the board of directors of LMI.

Leonard Moss, a veteran national security leader, has joined Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as chief security officer and head of the security services department. He will coordinate with APL’s executive council as he executes the lab’s strategy to evaluate and mitigate risk, maintain continuity of operations and manage incidents and crises, APL said Thursday.

The Department of Defense has issued a draft version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, which sets cyber standards and practices meant to help the defense industrial base reduce exfiltration of controlled unclassified information.

NASA has chosen Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics University to provide spacecraft for a mission that will aim to examine Saturn’s moon Titan as part of the agency’s New Frontiers solar system exploration program.

Jessica Stewart, who joined Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in 2016, has been promoted to mission area executive for national security analysis at APL.

Ian McCulloh, formerly a chief scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been named chief data scientist within the analytics and applied intelligence practice at Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm. Bryan Rich, head of the analytics and applied intelligence practice at Accenture Federal Services, said in a statement …

A Govini report says U.S. government investments in space and hypersonic technologies from fiscal years 2011 through 2017 reached approximately $83 billion and annual government spending on such platforms rose by 6 percent over the period, SpaceNews reported Sunday. United Launch Alliance ranked first in the top 15 vendors list …