McKinney administrators in Texas have adopted Dell’s suite of database management and information technology monitoring systems as part of efforts to help modernize the city’s municipal services. The suite includes Foglight to monitor application performance, Toad Data Modeler to allow disparate databases to communicate with and understand one another, two PowerEdge M1000e enclosures for the […] More

TE SubCom has won a $12.3 million contract to build a fiber-optic cable technology to link U.S. Navy sonar systems on the ocean floor to surveillance facilities ashore, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes the company will lay approximately 963 miles of submarine cable that is designed to interface with the Integrated […] More

Northrop Grumman has completed a series of engineering and manufacturing development design reviews on its active electronically scanned array radar that will replace legacy radar systems on Lockheed Martin‘s F-16 aircraft. Northrop said Wednesday that Lockheed chose the AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar under separate F-16 upgrade programs to replace the radars used by U.S. and Taiwanese soldiers. Jeff […] More

Iridium Communications has completed a series qualification tests on a new design Spectrolab and Mitsubishi Electric developed for the solar panel arrays that will be fitted to the Iridium NEXT satellites. Iridium said Tuesday the design consists of four panels that span approximately 30 feet and generate at least 2 kilowatts of power via triple-junction solar cells. Scott Smith, Iridium chief operating […] More

A satellite that Lockheed Martin designed and built for the U.S. government launched into space Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The CLIO satellite took off aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V launch vehicle, Lockheed said Tuesday. CLIO incorporates Lockheed’s A2100 satellite bus with solar arrays, propulsion system and core electronics. More

CSC has partnered with HP to provide clients with a testing-as-a-service platform that offers HP’s quality management and application testing tools to clients on a pay-as-you-go basis. CSC said Thursday it wants platform to help clients that want to make their development projects more agile and bolster time-to-market by supporting the testing and delivery of their applications and software. “It’s not enough for agile application teams to […] More

Cubic Transportation Systems moved to build its smart cities product portfolio with a licensing deal with Australia’s SenSen Networks, maker of video business analytics solutions. Cubic said Monday the alliance allows it to line up SenSen’s array of intelligent transport systems as part of offerings under the San Diego firm’s NextCity Vision initiative. These include toll, rail, transit, parking […] More

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded an $11.9 million contract to build and demonstrate a wideband digital antenna technology for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s radio frequency sensors. The company will work with Semtech and Systems & Technology Research to design a reusable digital common module under the first phase of the Arrays on Commercial Timescales program, Northrop said Wednesday. DARPA wants the common […] More

MarketsandMarkets forecasts an 8.06 percent compound annual growth rate for the image sensor market by 2020 to reach a total market value of $15.77 billion and cites that trend to new CMOS design and fabrication technology. The market research firm said Thursday that companies emerging to develop the market include Aptina Imaging, Canon, CMOSIS, OmniVision Technologies, ON Semiconductor, Samsung Group, Sony, […] More

General Dynamics Electric Boat has delivered a new Virginia-class nuclear submarine to the U.S. Navy ahead of its commissioning in October as the first of eight vessels in the Block III group. The North Dakota (SSN-784) attack submarine is the 11th ship of its class that Electric Boat has built with Huntington Ingalls Industries‘  Newport News Shipbuilding subsidiary, General Dynamics said Friday. Kurt Hesch, Electric Boat […] More

Marius Haas, chief commercial officer and president for enterprise solutions at Dell, said the company has partnered with VMware to deliver a “game-changing” platform for data center network virtualization and security. VMWare NSX, the result of collaboration with Cumulus Networks, seeks to provide a complete, open and automated solution for enterprises and service providers, the two companies […] More

General Dynamics Information Technology will build, install and operate the state of Massachusetts’ next 911 system that the company will design to integrate geographical information system data into emergency service requests. The company intends to help emergency response personnel both map a caller’s location and then route calls and corresponding information to public answering points through the […] More