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Viasat is set to provide an update and reveal contingency plans on the antenna reflector issue affecting the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite during an earnings conference call on Wednesday. The company is weighing two options: redeploying satellites from its extensive fleet and reallocating a subsequent ViaSat-3 class satellite to provide additional bandwidth to the Americas. ViaSat-3 Americas is an ultra-high-capacity Ka band satellite that will allow the satellite communications provider to reach more homes, businesses and planes, Runway Girl Network reported.

U.S. Air Force airmen from the 86th Maintenance Squadron have painted liberation stripes and added decals to six C-130J Super Hercules aircraft stationed at Ramstein Air Base to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France. The United States and its allies used the stripes and designations on June 6, 1944, for coordination between the ground and the air parties. According to Tech. Sgt. Garrett Magnie, maintenance officer for the 86th Maintenance Squadron, the 37th Troop Carrier Squadron, now known as the 37th Airlift Squadron, was part of the Normandy liberation, AF .mil reported.

Two teenagers from Arizona were jailed for attempting to ship assault rifles to Mexico without a valid license or any export authority. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona, Manuel De Jesus Guzman and Joshua Francisco Mendez carried two Romarms WASR-10 rifles, one Century Arms VSKA rifle, and one Century Arms BFT rifle on their body as they entered the DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales, Arizona, on their way to Mexico. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers located the rifles. Guzman was sentenced to one year and six months in prison while Mendez was sentenced to a year in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday.

The D. E. Shaw Group has appointed Rohan Desai as a financial research associate for data analytics. Prior to joining D. E. Shaw, Desai was a senior associate for credit risk management at DIAGEO India. He spent his internships at The Westin Hyderabad Mindspace and at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Northrop Grumman has initiated the next phase of pre-launch preparations for the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission after delivering the ABSM's Control and Planning Segment ground system and the Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization payloads to the U.S. Space Force. ABSM is a two-satellite constellation that will deliver protected satellite communications to the Northern Polar region. It uses the GEOStar-3 platform, which includes the main satellite structure and systems required to maintain operations, Northrop said Monday.

Cyberattacks targeting government agencies and public services surged by 40 percent during a three-month period that ended in May 2023, according to the Global Threat Intelligence Report published by BlackBerry. The report said that the cyberthreats mostly came from Russia and North Korea, adding that threat actors continue to improve their techniques to defeat targets' cyber defenses. BlackBerry also noted that ransomware operators are increasingly aiming their attacks on the health care and financial services industries as data and critical services present a lucrative target for the threat actors, MeriTalk reported.

Millennium Management has welcomed Xinlu Xiao as a quantitative researcher. Xiao joined Millennium in June following his two-year stint as vice president for quantitative strategies at Goldman Sachs. He also worked at Citi for three years, joining the exchange-traded funds market-making and macro trading section, focusing on international ETF optimal hedges and fair value arbitrage, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Lockheed Martin has signed up to exhibit at the Army Innovation Day 2023. Hosted by the Australian Army's Robotic and Autonomous Systems Implementation and Coordination Office in partnership with Defence Innovation Hub, the event aims to showcase the ability of the Australian defense industry and academia to use innovative concepts to address capability gaps and grow the project pipeline. AID 2023 will be held on Aug. 29 and 30 at Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre in Australia, the Australian Army said.

The Food and Drug Administration is seeking to procure the KNIME Business Hub Software, which provides a secure collaboration environment for deploying data science solutions. According to a recent request for quotation, the contract will include the acquisition of technical and maintenance services to support the products to be installed in four FDA data center environments. The agency wants to use modern analytics techniques to manipulate, use and present data including electronic health records, Forum Insights reported Monday.

The Department of Energy is awarding $40 million in funding to develop distributed resilient systems. Ceren Susut, the department’s acting associate director of science for advanced scientific computing research, said the program will help figure out how science can help in next-generation workflows as it deals with larger data sets and new tools. A collaboration involving the University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, and three DOE national laboratories developing novel methods in swarm intelligence for distributed resource allocation is one of the beneficiaries, the DOE said.