The Northern Virginia Technology Council has announced the roster of its board of directors for the trade association’s 2015-16 fiscal year. NVTC also announced Tuesday the election of 27 new and returning board members, and 16 three-year-term members to the board. Officers of the board of directors include: Chair: Todd Stottlemyer, CEO of Inova Center for […] More

A new Research and Markets report says an increase in demand for wireless and cloud technologies will help drive the healthcare cloud computing market to $12.65 billion in total value by 2020. The report sets the market’s compound annual growth rate at 20.1 percent from 2014 through 2020, Research and Markets said Wednesday. Research and Markets says North America become […] More

International Data Corp. reports that the global cloud IT infrastructure market achieved a 25.1-percent year-over-year growth in sales revenue to reach $6.3 billion in the first quarter. IDC said Thursday spending also grew from 26.4 percent of overall first-quarter IT infrastructure spending last year to almost 30 percent this year. The growth is due to increasing demand […] More

The Concurrent Technologies Corp. Foundation has awarded cash prizes to the winners of the annual Great Americans Day Essay Contest for students around the Johnstown, Pennsylvania. CTC said Tuesday the competition received more than two dozen essays about U.S. cowboy and actor Will Rogers, who was highlighted during the University of Pittsburgh’s Great Americans Day […] More

NASA has selected eight research projects that aim to address challenges to commercial supersonic travel such as sonic booms and emissions from supersonic aircraft. The research initiatives will involve academic institutions and companies and will get funding worth more than $2.3 million under the agency’s Commercial Supersonic Technology Project, the space agency said Wednesday. Kenneth Plotkin […] More

An analysis by Technavio predicts the worldwide market for enterprise information technology security platforms will achieve an average growth of 7.83 percent from 2015 to 2019. Technavio has observed more government and commercial organizations adopting tools to prevent theft and unauthorized access of their enterprise data as well as to mitigate sophisticated threats, Market Research […] More

Maritime Way Scientific has received funding from Lockheed Martin Canada Mission Systems & Training to develop an underwater warfare system dubbed SPARTA. The Sonar Performance-Acoustic Research-Tactical Analysis system aims to assist naval forces to detect enemy threats by determining underwater environment through ocean acoustic modelling technology, Maritime Way said Wednesday. Martin Taillefer, Maritime Way president […] More

Max Peterson serves as director and general manager for Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector, with responsibility in forming partnerships with system integrators, service providers, independent software vendors and value added resellers. At AWS, Peterson leads a team that works to identify and capture public sector contracts and perform program management before and after the […] More

Iron Bow Technologies has been recognized in The Channel Company’s annual CRN Tech Elite 250 list of information technology providers. Rene LaVigne, president and CEO of Iron Bow, said Monday the company’s inclusion in the list for the fifth consecutive year validates Iron Bow’s efforts to “maintain technical excellence.” LaVigne added that Iron Bow leverages […] More

Exelis‘ visual information solutions business and CloudEO have partnered to provide customers access to the ENVI software via cloud to perform geospatial image analysis. The companies said Tuesday the partnership will combine geospatial data and software with cloud’s computing capabilities to help businesses manage software costs, scalability and product development. “Cloud technology offers our customers a new way to increase […] More

Jessica Pantages Nielsen was appointed to her current role as vice president for marketing and communications at Lockheed Martin in May 2013 following ten years of strategic communications experience. At Lockheed’s information systems and global solutions business unit, she manages the communications and marketing team’s annual strategic plan and is also part of the senior leadership team. […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Radware to share cybersecurity best practices and collaborate on cyber-related pilot programs and experiments as part of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. The companies said Monday the alliance aims to facilitate the delivery of threat detectors and other cyber measures for customers through partnerships with technology providers. “The addition of Radware could not have come […] More