Market spending on public safety LTE infrastructure could reach $2 billion per year by 2020 due to increasing demand for the mobile broadband standard, according to new analysis from Reportsnreports.com. The number of installed base stations will hit almost 155,000 at a 60-percent compound annual growth rate between 2014 and 2020, serving close to 4 […] More

Growing awareness from U.K. enterprises on digital criminality could increase demand for methods to repel cyber attacks, according to Martin Sutherland, managing director for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. Ninety percent of U.K. firms responding to a BAE survey believe that attacks will increase over the next two years, the company said Monday. “We’re starting to […] More

A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts that the market for big data platforms worldwide will grow at a compound annual rate of 25.52 percent to $46.34 billion by 2018. The report provides an analysis of big data market trends by product and service type, by region and by vertical segment, the market research and consulting firm said […] More

Dave Frymier, chief information security officer at Unisys, believes a national infrastructure cybersecurity framework can be implemented by offering incentives or establishing mandatory standards, eWEEK reported Tuesday. “This framework addresses more of an economic problem more than a technical one,” Frymier told the magazine. Robert Lemos writes the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has delivered four phased array antennas for the Orion spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and prime contractor Lockheed Martin, as preparations are underway ahead of Orion’s inaugural flight in September. The antennas are intended to help comprise of Orion’s voice, video and data communications systems and be installed on Orion’s exterior, […] More

A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions unit has partnered with Norse to offer a suite of cybersecurity awareness services aimed at helping medical organizations identify fraudulent schemes and protect electronic data. SecureInfo and Norse seek to deliver real-time fraud and threat intelligence data for electronically-protected health information through the alliance, Kratos said Thursday. Sam Glines, […] More

Intel and Microsoft have introduced new analytics and big data management products that were built around the companies’ existing technology offerings, GCN reported Thursday. The website reports Intel developed a software suite for government and commercial organizations to analyze, import and manage volumes of datasets in real time. Intel Data Platform is based on the […] More

Darren McGrath of Unisys said a new study suggests that companies with a “holistic” approach to their mobile strategy may have a greater chance of reaping its advantages to the fullest, Mobility Techzone reported Feb. 13. Joe Rizzo quoted McGrath, global director of mobility solutions at Unisys, as saying this “concerted” effort would demand participation […] More

Bernie Bullert has been appointed principal project manager of CH2M Hill‘s water and strategic consulting team in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region. Bullert will work with clients on operations and business decisions functions and also be responsible for developing and managing water projects in Minnesota and Iowa, the company announced Tuesday. He most recently served as director of […] More

Inmarsat on Feb. 12 launched the first of a series of events seeking an open debate regarding the operating benefits of shore and ship communications in the maritime industry, The Maritime Executive reported Wednesday.  During the smart operations conference held in London, Frank Coles, Inmarsat president, said that ship to shore connectivity in the industry […] More

SafeNet Inc. has introduced a new data breach directory website for security departments to categorize an attack’s severity level and compare the resulting analyses with other breach incidents. The SafeNet Breach Level Index portal is developed to serve as a database of various breach disclosures and classifications based on numerical scoring of an organization’s breach […] More

Iris Bombelyn, a group vice president at Lockheed Martin, says the company is working to attract allied investors for a tactical communications satellite program, Space News reported Monday. Mike Gruss writes Lockheed wants to bring in international partners to fund the construction of a sixth satellite in the U.S. Navy‘s Mobile User Objective System constellation. […] More