Airbus Defence and Space has partnered with Voyager Space to support the development and operation of a NASA-funded commercial space station called Starlab, which is slated for launch in 2028 to ensure astronauts can continue conducting scientific investigations in low-Earth orbit following the retirement of the International Space Station in 2031. Under the agreement, Airbus […]
Scott Sweetland, a Potomac Officers Club member and an engineering and sales executive with over three decades of experience, is the director of microelectronics technology for aerospace and defense at Analog Devices. He joined the company in January 2022 after forming Sweetland Black Associates in 2020 in partnership with former Qorvo Region Sales Manager George […]
Chad Scott is the director of business development and corporate strategy at Boeing Intelligence & Analytics, a provider of strategic capabilities to the U.S. intelligence community. In the said role, he is responsible for developing, communicating and executing a complex business strategy for the company. BI&A appointed him in December 2015 as business development and […]
The U.S. Army is subjecting its Extended Range Cannon Artillery system to a major operational test to determine how to make the weapon more resilient and reliable. The results of previous testing showed that the armored howitzer’s gun tube was damaged after firing a few rounds. At the latest trial, the Army aims to determine […]
The new Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology within the Department of State is now operational. According to Ned Price, the Department of State’s spokesperson, the office will “bring additional technology policy expertise, diplomatic leadership, and strategic direction” to how the agency approaches critical and emerging technologies. The office will also […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is implementing a new software-as-a-service governance program that aims to better manage the transfer of systems and applications to the cloud and monitor and evaluate the risks of SaaS products. Shawnte Singletary, the deputy director of the Division of Security and Privacy Compliance in the Office of Information […]
The Aerospace Corp. has created the Space Attack Research and Tactic Analysis framework to provide space industry experts with unclassified information about the methods attackers use to compromise space assets. SPARTA is an ongoing project that was launched in October 2022 following the KA-SAT satellite system hack that disrupted communications in Ukraine, which is the […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched over 110 small satellites to orbit on Tuesday as part of the Transporter-6 rideshare mission, including the Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather Systems cubesat for the Space Systems Command. The EWS spacecraft built by Orion Space Solutions was deployed from Cape Canaveral to low-Earth orbit where it will demonstrate its capability to […]
NASA has reported delays in its current and future missions despite receiving a $3.2 billion planetary science budget under the fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending bill. The amount is about $80 million higher compared to the agency’s FY 2022 planetary science budget and is $40 million more than what NASA requested for the current fiscal […]
Matt Ryan is a hardware sales representative at technology company Oracle, which offers infrastructure designed to help businesses move workloads easily to and from the cloud and between clouds. According to Oracle, the next-generation cloud is built to run any application faster and more securely for less. Ryan, a Potomac Officers Club member, joined the […]
