Airbus Group‘s defense and space business has opened a new facility that will test Europe’s ExoMars rover in a simulated Martian environment. The Mars Yard is located at the Airbus division’s headquarters in Stevenage, England and will also be used to further develop the autonomous space vehicle’s navigation technology, Airbus said Thursday. Alvaro Gimenez, a […] More

IBM will seek the help of software developers worldwide to make mobile applications that use Watson’s data analysis and machine learning tools, Wired reported Feb. 26. Klint Finley writes that the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge will kick off March 31 and the company will select 25 finalists to use Watson’s developer application programming interface in order […] More

Governments, universities and companies continue in their efforts to find sustainable, clean energy, and yet mankind is nowhere near dislodging coal, abundant and cheap but the least clean of all, as the top source, Ian Marcus of RTKL said Feb. 20. Marcus, a mechanical engineer based in the company’s Washington, D.C., office, mentioned several studies into alternative […] More

Carlos Fernandes serves as director of Salient Federal Solutions‘ Cyber Security Center of Excellence and recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Insurance Technology Association. The more-than 21-year information security veteran was the founder, managing principal and CEO of Agile Cybersecurity Solutions prior to joining Salient. The Air Force veteran has also held leadership roles at CACI, L-3, Booz Allen […] More

Tony Cole serves as vice president and global government chief technology officer at FireEye, where he works with public sector agencies and other systems integrators to gain knowledge of the global cyber threat landscape and adapt enterprise approaches to address the threats. The former U.S. Army officer and Symantec business development leader addresses security conferences […] More