The International Institute for Strategic Studies says reducing acquisition costs will increase demand for unmanned aircraft for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance applications, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. IISS published its “Military Balance 2014” report stating that globally, more drones are being used by militaries, private companies and individuals. “We’re going to see more of these things,” […] More

A design studio in the U.K. has been awarded approximately $114,000 to develop a system for controlling four robots that would roam through an art museum in London and stream what they see to online users, Wired reported Thursday. Olivia Solon writes “The Workers” will work to build four machines with lights and cameras and create […] More

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has been awarded a $6.8 million contract to develop maritime satellite systems for the U.S. Army. TCS will supply Digisat International-manufactured Intellian antenna subsystems to the Army for automatic switchover during disruptions, the company said Wednesday. Michael Bristol, TCS government services group president, said the company intends for those systems to help […] More

Battelle has been awarded a five-year, $12.6 million contract to help run a national repository of human biological samples for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nonprofit research firm will help CDC maintain blood, tissue, urine and genomic specimens that are stored inside large metal vats at the agency’s CASPIR biostorage facility in […] More

Twenty-six high school teams and two middle school teams from 14 U.S. states and one Canadian province will participate in the March 28 national finals of the CyberPatriot VI competition, sponsored by Northrop Grumman. This year’s finals will be the first time in the competition’s six-year history that middle school teams were included and they will […] More

Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., has joined the board of directors of venture philanthropy and social innovation organization New Profit Inc. Salzberg will support New Profit’s growth strategy and work to help develop new approaches for driving social change such as finding financing vehicles and public-private partnerships, New Profit announced Tuesday. He said that New […] More

Brent Shafer has been tapped to serve as the next chief executive officer of Philips North America where he will be responsible for the company’s operations in the healthcare, consumer lifestyle and lighting markets. Shafer succeeds Greg Sebasky who retired Feb. 3 and will report directly to Frans van Houten, Royal Philips CEO, the company […] More

Oracle’s Health Sciences unit has partnered with Nuance Communications to integrate their technologies for a clinical trial process that works around the concerns of productivity, cost and participant retention of health sciences groups, Oracle said Monday. Oracle’s e-clinical software and Nuance’s speech recognition healthcare technology will combine to develop a data management offering for mobile […] More

EMC Corp. has updated a storage management offering that is intended to help customers gain insights into data stored in their systems, InfoStor reported Friday. Pedro Hernandez writes the new version of the ViPR platform is built to work with the Hadoop Distributed File System and comply with corporate rules on data access, retention and […] More

Kemp Ross and Mike Sebastian have been selected to join a committee at Aon plc tasked with executing the company’s investment strategy. The Andy Cox-chaired Aon Global Practice Committee will guide and manage the direction of the company’s global investment operations, the company announced Thursday. Ross has been named the head of investment solutions and […] More

Teradata has partnered with business intelligence services provider Jaspersoft to integrate its BI functions with Teradata’s data management platforms and produce insights to guide business decision-making. Jaspersoft’s BI suite includes a tool that parses through big data sources for reporting on current and historical data, Jaspersoft said Thursday. “The growing number of data-driven businesses has […] More

IBM has partnered with India-based real estate company DLF to analyze the shopping behavior of customers at DLF’s malls through an IBM mobile phone application, Business Standard reported Monday. The app will be designed to gather data from shoppers’ movements inside the DLF Promenade mall in New Delhi City and convert that information into insights for […] More