Accenture, Airbus, General Electric and Hitachi have joined an Intel-led community aimed at advancing research into neuromorphic computing.

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Air Marshal Leo Davies, chief of Australia’s air force, took his first flight of a trainer aircraft from a team comprised of Lockheed Martin, Pilatus Aircraft and Hawker Pacific. Lockheed said Tuesday the PC-21 in-service flight represents a milestone for the Australian defense forces’ AIR 5428 Pilot Training System. In late 2015, the Lockheed-led consortium won a contract valued at $946 […] More

Airbus‘ defense and space business has signed a research agreement with the Australia’s air force to collaborate on the development of an automatic air-to-air refueling capacity for the country’s multirole tanker transport aircraft, Defense News reported Thursday. Nigel Pittaway writes the two-year project aims to integrate an automatic refueling feature into the KC-30A aircraft’s aerial refueling boom system that will […] More

Boeing has turned over the first P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to the Royal Australian Air Force during a ceremony held at the company’s delivery center in Tukwila, Washington. Shelley Lavender, Boeing military aircraft president, handed the ceremonial keys for P-8A to Australian Chief of Air Force Leo Davies during the event, the company said Friday. Boeing based […] More

Unisys has completed work to help migrate the Interior Department‘s Financial and Business Management System to a cloud computing environment as part of a $44 million task order awarded under the Foundation Cloud Hosting Services contract. The company said Tuesday it provided infrastructure-as-a-service technology that includes partner Virtustream‘s SAP in the Cloud hosting services to support the migration. Unisys […] More

Unisys Corp. has received ISO/IEC 20000 certification for the company’s framework to deliver managed information technology services under an Internal Revenue Services enterprise storage initiative. The company’s federal systems business hosts petabytes of agency storage space in private cloud using ISO-qualified processes, Unisys said Tuesday. IRS awarded Unisys Federal Systems a potential $139 million contract in […] More

Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Data Systems, has entered into a distribution partnership with Avnet Government Solutions, a newly formed wholly owned subsidiary of Avnet Technology Solutions.  Throught the partnership, Avnet will provide services to HDS’ partners that include capture assistance, compliance, process management and deployment of converged infrastructure, according to […] More