General Electric‘s intelligent platforms business has won a contract to provide the U.S. Air Force an embedded neuromorphic computing platform for use in wide-area surveillance applications, Military Aerospace & Electronics reported Thursday. The publication reports the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y. selected a GE infrastructure that mimics human’s neuro-biological actions in […] More

The U.S. Air Force has accepted operational responsibility for a satellite Ball Aerospace & Technologies built to support space-based technology demonstrations by the Defense Department. Space Test Program Satellite-3 was sent into orbit along with 28 CubeSats aboard a single Minotaur I rocket Nov. 19 at the Wallops Flight Center in Virginia, Ball Aerospace said […] More

Rockwell Collins has received approval from the National Security Agency for a data link system designed to help soldiers transmit radio communications in the battlefield. NSA certified Rockwell Collins’ TacNet platform to manage and secure network-centric communications up to the Top Secret classification level, the company said Thursday. Mike Jones, vice president and general manager […] More

The Patrick Henry Community College is now certified as a Siemens partner school, giving its students access to the company’s standards in electrical, mechanical and computer engineering. PHCC received the Mechatronics Certification which allows its PHCC Science, Technology and Mathematics program instructors to teach the course, the school announced Friday. Course students must complete five […] More

John Schumacher serves as the vice president for business relations of GenCorp, the parent of Aerojet General Corp., where he handles the growth plans of the company’s government-related aerospace and defense business. Schumacher also supports Warren Boley, Aerojet president, and the subsidiary’s operations in Washington. He has previously served as Aerojet vice president of Washington […] More

With the 100th anniversary of its research organization, Philips has renewed its commitment “to improving the lives of 3 billion people a year by 2025.”  Since it was established in 1914 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Philips Research has established operations in six international locations, accumulated 1,500 employees belonging to 50 nationalities and granted 165,000 patents, […] More

Accenture has won a $184 million contract to upgrade fare collection systems for all of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (Metro) transportation services. The company will work to consolidate Metro’s transit services and provide management consulting in mobility, analytics, customer service, payments, financial services, retail and marketing science in order to develop the system, […] More

Digital Management Inc. and Samsung Telecommunications America have forged an alliance that will work to help government and commercial organizations deploy mobile technology across the enterprise. The companies seek to deliver a range of managed deployment, security and help desk services for U.S. customers who aim to implement bring-your-own-device initiatives, DMI said Monday. DMI will […] More

A high-speed satellite Internet service provided Hughes Network Systems was selected as a winner at the Consumer World Awards, an annual consumer industry awards program. The HughesNet Gen4 High-Speed Satellite Internet Service won the award for its work to deliver up to 15 Mbps of internet access and a greater download capacity, Hughes announced Monday. Close to […] More

Daryl Woodard, CEO of Tulsa, Okla.-based business and managed services provider SageNet, will also serve as chief executive of the recently-acquired Spacenet, a Washington-headquartered network services contractor. The transaction completed in December 2013 and both companies aim to complete their full integration in mid- to late- 2014, Spacenet announced Monday. Glenn Katz, outgoing Spacenet CEO, […] More

Craig Olson, formerly a group senior director at Rockwell Collins, has been named vice president and general manager of business and regional systems at the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based avionics manufacturer. He will report directly to Kent Statler, executive VP and chief operating officer of Rockwell Collins’ commercial systems business and succeeds Jeff Standerski, who is […] More

Boeing Co. has finished the first of two high power satellites for Mexico’s communications system. The Centenario geomobile satellite is built to enhance Mexico’s Mexsat social communications for public, military, civil and humanitarian needs, Boeing said Tuesday. Craig Cooning, vice president and general manager of Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems and CEO of Boeing Satellite […] More