As covered by GovCon Wire Monday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected a Northrop Grumman-led team to develop a demonstrator platform of an unmanned aerial system under phase three of the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node program. Tern is a joint initiative of DARPA and the Office of Naval Research to develop a medium-altitude, long-endurance drone that will work to […] More

James Jasinski serves as vice president of federal business development and supply chain at Fortinet, where he has managed the company’s federal market strategic efforts since March 2015. He previously worked in a senior VP position at Digital Signal Corp. from October 2013 to October 2014 and spent more than 10 years as executive VP of […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a $6.3 million contract to Galois for the implementation of its Jana project to help extract value from big data and protect the privacy of data in transit and at rest. The Jana project is intended to implement “private data as a service” to help analysts use data in a […] More

A report by TechNavio predicts that global biometric spending in the government sector will climb in value from 2015 to 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of more than 14 percent. The company said Friday the availability of user-friendly and cost-effective biometric systems and past violent incidents that have created the need for 3-D facial recognition technology […] More

IBM‘s Thomas J. Watson Research Center has received a $1.3 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate for research and development work on mobile technology security. DHS said Tuesday the award aims to utilize mobile security management tools to secure mobile devices for federal government use. IBM will work to develop a […] More

A new ABI Research report has projected the biometric security and surveillance industry to reach $26.8 billion in revenues by 2020. The report notes that biometric technologies have begun to attract consumer and banking markets in addition to strong market adoption in law enforcement and government applications, ABI Research said Thursday. ABI Research also reports […] More

Orbital ATK has been awarded a $23.6 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force launch a space surveillance satellite with the company’s Minotaur IV rocket. The ORS-5 SensorSat spacecraft is scheduled to lift off in mid-2017 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. The company expects to receive a […] More

IBM and the British government have pumped a total of $479.7 million in investments into cognitive computing and big data research, Computerworld UK reported Thursday. Margi Murphy writes the amount is meant to expand the Hartree Center at Daresbury. The facility will have access to IBM’s Watson cognitive computer, intellectual property assets and researchers under the technology agreement, […] More

A new TechNavio report predicts the global mobile biometrics market to grow at 128.4 percent year over year from 2014 through 2019 as the study notes a rise in integration of biometrics in two-factor authentication devices. TechNavio expects an increase in identity and data theft cases to propel market growth during the forecast period while […] More

A new ABI Research report predicts that the biometrics market will reach a value of $13.8 million this year as the commercial sector is poised to catch up with government agencies in utilizing biometrics technology. The company said Monday that the consumer and enterprise segments will have the dominant share of the market by late 2017 and reach $8 million […] More

A Lockheed Martin-led team has discovered new information on the sun’s atmosphere through NASA‘s Interface Region Imaging Spectograph as part of a mission to study energy transfer and the impact of solar atmospheric activity. “The results focus on a lot of things that have been puzzling for a long time and they also offer some complete surprises,” […] More

IPKeys Technologies and partner Booz Allen Hamilton will provide support services to the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s Mission Assurance Directorate and NetOps division as part of a new task order award. IPKeys said Monday the task order falls under the Global Information Grid Services Management Engineering, Transition and Implementation contract and covers both implementation and security assessments for NetOps’ enterprise portfolio. Robert […] More