A new Visiongain report forecasts the global military aircraft maintenance, repair and operations market will hit $49 billion in value in 2015. Visiongain said Friday the increasing adoption of new fighter aircraft among tier-one market players would spur growth in the industry. The 2015-2025 forecast covers maintenance aspects in operations and field, heavy airframe, heavy engine, […] More

An Airbus Defense and Space company has refreshed its call processing system offerings in a move to aid communities in public safety communications. Airbus DS Communications launched the VESTA SMS Text-to-911 platform, VESTA Map service and VESTA Analytics updates, Airbus said Monday. “I am particularly excited to announce our new SMS offering which places text-to-911 capability inside our VESTA […] More

The U.S. Air Force has chosen Array Information Technology to upgrade the data systems that back the supply chain platform the military branch uses to support its aerial combat missions. The company said Tuesday it will work with NTT Data, PracTrans and TSRI to make enhancements to the Air Force Integrated Logistics System-Supply, which delivers mission-related equipment for the Air National […] More

IBM plans to release a new cloud-based open platform in an effort to help developers and clients build enterprise applications for managing data from connected devices. The company said Tuesday it will also add Internet of Things services to the firm’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service offering to facilitate the integration of IoT information into cloud computing apps. […] More

6Wresearch has released a report that projects the global biometrics market to hit $21.9 billion by 2020. The report cites the Asia-Pacific region as an emerging market leader due to what 6Wresearch notes as  “increasing government spending” on information security and biometric projects, the research firm said in November. 6Wresearch lists China, Japan, South Korea […] More

A mobile security archiving technology developed by George Mason University and funded by the Department of Homeland Security will reach the commercial market through an agreement with Kryptowire, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Michael Hardy writes that the product’s commercial release is an extension of a George Mason research project, which originally received a $250,000 federal grant to create the […] More

Makers of the Urban Observatory interactive exhibit, a project to demonstrate how large amounts of data could be turned into useful information, will unveil the next version of the initiative in San Diego next week. The exhibit underwent an overhaul by inputting data from close to 60 cities this year from the 10 metropolitan areas featured during its launch year, […] More

Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has named 17 new and continuing members of a committee that provides the Federal Geographic Data Committee with recommendations on geospatial policy and management issues. The recent appointment brings the total members of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee to 30, each will serve three-year terms, the department announced […] More

Sean McCarron will serve as vice president of sales at Smartronix and will lead the company’s sales and business development efforts in the commercial cloud computing market. He was most recently the business development manager at Amazon Web Services, Smartronix announced Tuesday. Before AWS, the 14-year industry veteran held positions at Microsoft and Esri. On his […] More

Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including VP and director. Albert caught […] More

Dr. Melvin Greer serves as senior fellow and chief strategist for service-oriented architecture and cloud computing at Lockheed Martin, where he brings more than 25 years of experience leading systems and software engineering efforts to the contractor’s advanced technology office. Greer is a principal investigator in advanced research studies, and has dedicated his efforts towards […] More