Dr. Ray O. Johnson, formerly chief technology officer and senior vice president at Lockheed Martin, has joined Washington-based quantum computing analytics firm QxBranch as a member of the board of directors. “He brings deep insight into the underlying technology, the strategic needs of our customers and research partners, and relationships at the top level of […] More

A new Transparency Market Research report forecasts the LIDAR market to reach $605.5 million by 2020 from $225 million in 2013 and be driven by growing demand for three-dimensional imagery from government, commercial and consumer clients. The report indicates that the transmission lines segment is poised to achieve “robust growth in the forthcoming years,” Transparency Market […] More

David Gore, serves as a director and business development executive for the intelligence and information systems segment at Raytheon, where he serves as the company’s National Security Agency account manager and senior capture manager for large cybersecurity and signals intelligence programs. The former NSA engineering intern has been a director at Raytheon since 2012 and joined the […] More

Bill Downer is a manager at Seagate handling the federal business development line. The sales and management veteran has over two decades of experience working for data storage technology companies, including sales manager at Sun Microsystems and federal business vice president at DataDirect Networks. Previous roles also include regional director of sales and channel relations at Quantum. More

Bill Downer serves as manager of federal business development at Seagate Technology where he is helping to build a federal subsidiary that will focus on storage offerings for U.S. government customers. Downer worked in BD for Xyratex before it was acquired by Seagate and was vice president of federal sales at DataDirect Networks beginning in 2012. He […] More

IBM has unveiled a five-year, $3 billion investment to develop nanoscale chip technology as the company aims to improve the performance of cloud computing and big data systems. A team of IBM researchers will aim to scale silicon chips to 7 nanometers or below as well as research carbon nanoelectronics, silicon photonics and other semiconductor materials that […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has unveiled a command and control system that is intended for use in small satellite operations. The quantumCMD off-the-shelf technology is built to help users develop dashboards and a common operational picture across satellites, Kratos said Tuesday. QuantumCMD is also designed with telemetry, tracking and command tools, as well as HTML5 web server […] More