Viasat has secured a contract to update NATO control stations for ultra-high-frequency satellite communications systems in an effort to help address the international alliance’s integrated waveform baseline requirement. The company said Wednesday it will modernize NATO’s UHF communications infrastructure to the Visual Integrated SATCOM Information, Operation and Networking software package designed to increase flexibility, interoperability and […] More

Boeing has built and delivered its 50th P-8A Poseidon aircraft for the U.S. Navy‘s anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Navy said Thursday it accepted the new unit at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida, and expects to complete the branch’s fleet transition from P-3C to P-8A by fiscal year 2019. “This is the first time a […] More

Cybric has named cybersecurity veterans Jim Bandanza, Michael Brown and John DeLong as members of its advisory board to help develop and expand the company’s automation and vulnerability platform. Bandanza, DeLong and Brown will work to guide the company’s executive and technical teams as part of the advisory board that includes former and current security, artificial intelligence, […] More

NASA has selected the Goddard Space Flight Center’s team of industry and academic investigators to build a spectrometer that will work to support planet formation research aboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. The space agency said Thursday the High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd Spectrometer will be built by a team of investigators with GSFC senior scientist Samuel Harvey Moseley […] More

Lockheed Martin has launched its new Advanced Pilot Training facility in South Carolina that will house a Ground-Based Training System and tooling equipment to support the final assembly of the T-50A trainer aircraft. The company said Tuesday the Ground-Based Training System serves to provide a training platform for T-50A pilots. Orlando Carvalho, Lockheed’s executive vice president for the aeronautics business, said the company will work […] More

Lockheed Martin has received a suite of three cameras for installation with a NASA spacecraft for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer mission. NASA said Tuesday Lockheed will integrate the PolyCam, MapCam and SamCam cameras with the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to collect images of the Bennu asteroid, investigate the presence of dust plumes and satellites, and […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton and Hogan Assessment Group have conducted a job analysis survey to evaluate the traits of data scientists. Booz Allen received almost 200 responses that indicate “the most important attribute to emerge was a data scientist’s flexibility and problem solving capabilities,” the company said Monday. “Data scientists are inherent problem solvers who thrive […] More

DRS Technologies and NASA have jointly developed a photon-counting mid-infrared detector that works to support remote-sensing applications in spaceflight and have been integrated into two new aircraft instruments. The space agency said Tuesday Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Xiaoli Sun worked with DRS to develop what NASA calls a “first-of-its-kind” detector, which is made of the mercury cadmium telluride alloy or HgCdTe. […] More

General Atomics and its partners at the Energy Department‘s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have reported the latest findings in their joint studies on fusion energy and the control of edge-localized modes or heat bursts. The company said March 15 the research team found that tiny magnetic fields work to suppress intense heat bursts by gradually releasing heat near […] More

(PRNEWSWIRE)—Deloitte LLP, a leader in Oracle implementation and related services and Diamond level member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) announced today that they have obtained Oracle Validated Integration for its Technology for Work Opportunity Tax Credit (T4WOTC) software. This integration possesses the capability to provide businesses with accurate and efficient tax screening solutions for Work […] More

Northrop Grumman and Australia’s defence science and technology organisation will collaborate to research emerging technologies in electronic warfare, C4ISR and unmanned systems. Ian Irving, Northrop’s chief executive for Australia, has signed the partnership agreement with Australia’s chief defense scientist Alex Zelinsky, the company said Wednesday. “We’ve seen significant developments in these areas in recent years and […] More