A Roboteam unmanned ground vehicle was scheduled to launch Monday at the 2017 Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington D.C. The company said Monday the Transportable Interoperable Ground Robot is designed to be modular to allow integration of add-ons, sensors and future technologies and is built as an all-weather system for all-terrain operation. TIGR […] More

F-35 pilots from the U.K. air and naval forces have collaborated with fighter jet pilots from Italy and the Netherlands to participate in F-35 coalition interoperability tests conducted at a BAE Systems-operated simulation facility in Samlesbury, England. The tests are part of a series of simulation exercises designed to assess the interoperability of the fighter aircraft with […] More

Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, has said the company welcomes President Donald Trump’s memorandum that seeks to examine if China’s trade policies lead to the theft of intellectual property from U.S. businesses. Hewson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, said in a statement published Monday on the White House […] More

The Defense Department has awarded Hughes Network Systems a contract of an undisclosed value to examine how satellite transports can interoperate for potential use in government wideband communications. Hughes said Monday it aims to produce a wideband communications architecture that will work to facilitate multiple space and ground transports through a design analysis of various satellites such […] More

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, said in an interview aired Monday on Federal News Radio that commercial satellite communications services play a critical role in military communications amid delays and other challenges facing military satcom programs. Cowen-Hirsch told Federal Tech Talk host John Gilroy that a commercial satcom service is designed […] More

RMS‘ North American subsidiary has introduced a property management system on a Project Hosts-built cloud platform that is certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. RMS – The Hospitality Cloud is now available to Defense Department and federal civilian clients via Project Hosts’ Federal Private Cloud, RMS said Wednesday. The system works to help customers manage real estate properties, reservations, dining […] More

The U.K.’s air force and Northrop Grumman have collaborated to test communications interoperability between the Typhoon FGR4 fighter aircraft and Lockheed Martin-built F-35B. Northrop said Wednesday it provided an airborne gateway for the two-week Babel Fish III trial that was held in Mojave Desert, California. F-35 jets communicate through the Multifunction Advanced Data Link while the Typhoon aircraft uses Link 16 to share data, Northrop […] More

The Joint Interoperability Command has granted Arista Networks information assurance interoperability certification for the company’s technology platforms that work to help government customers modernize and manage cloud networks. Arista said Wednesday the certification recognizes the compliance of its 7150, 7050, 7250, 7300 and 7500 Series programmable platforms with the Defense Department‘s security functional requirements and practices. Ashwin Kohli, vice president of Arista’s […] More

Valytics has received a three-year contract to develop and update interoperability testing and test automation services for the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The company said Wednesday it will help ICE to analyze enterprise configuration procedures, conduct manual interoperability tests and create a test automation framework to execute regression tests on deployed ICE systems. […] More

CAE has unveiled a new image generator at which uses commercial-off-the-shelf graphics processors to help create interoperable synthetic environments. The company said Monday CAE Medallion-6000XR was developed with the help of Open Geospatial Consortium CDB standards and builds on the family of image generators and visual systems designed for the military market. Montreal-based CAE displayed the platform at the […] More

Saab has secured three orders from the U.S. Army‘s program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation to implement interoperability updates to two of the military branch’s training systems. The orders cover mid-life service upgrades to the 7th Army Training Command’s Deployable Instrumentation System-Europe and the Combat Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System in an effort to address forward […] More

A new study by Deloitte and the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation has found that 36 percent of manufacturing executives said intellectual property is their top concern when it comes to data security, followed by consumer information and inadvertent personal data disclosures. Deloitte and MAPI conducted 35 interviews with executives and industry organizations as well […] More