A study by the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation — an initiative between Cisco and the IMD business school — says digital disruption could supplant 40 percent of incumbent firms within the next five years. Cisco said Wednesday the researchers sought the outlook of 941 business leaders across 12 industries on the impact of digital disruption in reshaping […] More

A KPMG International-commissioned study indicates that aerospace and defense companies aim to drive growth by implementing research and development, supply chain management, targeted divestment and portfolio adjustment initiatives. Fifty-three percent of 68 senior executive respondents to the KPMG A&D Outlook survey said they would prioritize sales growth strategies for the next one to two years, […] More

An International Data Corp. report projects the Internet of Things market to grow by the end of 2020 at a 16.9 percent compound annual growth rate and generate a total worldwide revenue of $1.7 trillion. IDC said Tuesday that devices, connectivity and information technology services are projected to account for more than two-thirds of the global market share […] More

Battelle is offering a new service that provides predictive analytics and risk mitigation functions to help companies monitor their markets and make informed business decisions amid emerging market trends. The company said Monday the SmartVision tool works to track information such as brand perception and consumer sentiment and analyze how these and emerging science can shape the marketplace and […] More

Cubic’s global defense business has completed the initial phase of a manned/unmanned air range system for the U.S. Air Force. Cubic collaborated with the Wright State Research Institute and the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop and execute the live, virtual and constructive unmanned aerial systems in an effort to establish a simulation environment for […] More

Huddle will be able to provide the U.S. Agency for International Development and other agencies with its U.S. cloud collaboration service after receiving an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said Thursday its service works to support cross-agency file sharing, project management and other collaboration activities through a single cloud platform to […] More

TechNavio’s new report projects the public sector’s demand for low-cost infrastructure maintenance to drive a 31.0 percent compound annual growth rate of the global information technology-as-a-service market from 2014 through 2019. The report analyzes the vendor landscape that includes tier-one market players such as Amazon Web Services, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Rackspace, Technavio said […] More

Visiongain has released a new report that indicates the military electro-optical infrared systems market reached $8.38 billion in 2014. The report also predicts an increase in demand for military EO/IR systems through 2024, with North America and Europe slated to lead the market in technology and research and development, Reportlinker said Wednesday. Emerging military nations will look to integrate those systems into new procurement and […] More

IDC‘s Government Insights segment has released a new report on its evaluation of 12 cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors in the federal marketplace against set of weighted parameters for both short-term and long-term deployments. The research firm said Friday that the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment” report used pricing, scalability, compute services, value-added services and a single […] More

The Intelligence Community LLC has sought the help of the crowd through the firm’s new marketplace for freelancers to promote their ideas in the national security and intelligence arenas. Between October 27th and December 5th, interested individuals and companies will have the opportunity to back these ideas through the open-funding platform IndieGoGo. In this two-part conversation with ExecutiveBiz, CEO Graham Plaster discusses […] More

ReportsnReports has projected the global unmanned ground vehicle market to be worth $8.26 billion by 2020, a 32.72 percent increase from the firm’s 2014 figure. The market research firm’s new report analyzes emerging trends and major countries from North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa regions, MarketsnMarkets said Thursday. ReportsnReports also examines UGV applications […] More

The global market for unmanned ground vehicles is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 32.72 percent to $8.26 billion in value by 2020, according to a MarketsandMarkets report. MarketsandMarkets said Wednesday UGV technological advances as well as the increasing demand for the platform’s combat and non-defense applications are some of the factors […] More