Boeing has won a contract with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension of Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety to build an automated system that manages access to criminal history and other critical data. The company said Wednesday it will revamp the legacy criminal history system with updated security controls, proactive monitoring and alerts, and cross-system performance metrics. “This agreement with Minnesota is a strategic investment […] More

Tony Frazier became senior vice president of DigitalGlobe‘s government solutions business earlier this year and oversees the geospatial imagery provider’s work with U.S. government customers. Frazier, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, joined DigitalGlobe through its 2013 combination with GeoEye, where he led communications and marketing initiatives in an SVP role. In this conversation with […] More

Kelly Collins, a more than 30-year enterprise technology professional, has joined Digital Reasoning as president of the cognitive computing firm’s public sector business. Digital Reasoning also named two-decade U.S. Navy veteran Dan Dzenitis a sector vice president for business development, the company said Tuesday. Collins will oversee the organization’s customer services and strategic partnerships across […] More

Lockheed Martin has ordered radar systems from Northrop Grumman for Lockheed’s project to upgrade Taiwan’s fleet of F-16 fighter jets. Northrop is scheduled to deliver the first lot of 142 APG-83 beam radars to Lockheed in 2016, Northrop said Monday. The fire control radar is designed to provide air-to-air and air-to-ground radar functions to F-16 planes. Jeff […] More

Northrop Grumman will work with the U.S. Air Force and start production four RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems under a foreign military sale contract with the South Korean air force. “[It is] the first time a Global Hawk has been sold to an allied nation in the Asia-Pacific region under the foreign military sales process,” Mary Petryszyn, international vice president […] More

Wayne Lucernoni leads the information technology business of Harris Corp. as president out of the unit’s headquarters in Herndon, Va. Lucernoni, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2015, first joined the Melbourne, Fla.-based communications and technology contractor in 1990 and previously served as vice president and general manager for Harris’ intelligence, civil and healthcare programs. Lucernoni recently […] More

BAE Systems is developing a sensor payload for unmanned aircraft systems that will help the U.S. Navy‘s Boeing-built P-8A Poseidon jet detect enemy submarines by monitoring disturbances in the magnetic field, Intelligent Aerospace reported Monday. John Keller writes the P-8A maritime patrol aircraft will use an air-launched UAS equipped with an antisubmarine warfare payload, including a magnetic anomaly detector, to pinpoint the location of submerged submarines, […] More

A TechNavio report predicts a 5.7 percent average growth for the worldwide health information technology market on a year-over-year basis through 2018. The research firm identified CareFusion, Cerner, Dell, McKesson and Philips Healthcare as among the key vendors in the sector, Reports and Intelligence said Thursday. The report indicates that government and private organizations have […] More

A new Research and Markets report has forecast a global aviation cybersecurity market that could climb in value through 2018 at a compound annual growth rate of 4.74 percent due to the evolving threat environment. The firm said Tuesday the aviation industry will see the implementation of information security frameworks at airports, airlines and service providers to protect against cyber terrorism, data theft and other […] More

International Data Corp. has published a report that suggests a framework for information technology companies and professionals to drive service innovation with “third platform” computing technologies. IDC predicts third platform IT-as-a-service will be key for approximately 65 percent of industry’s global competitive strategies by 2016, the market intelligence firm said Wednesday. The platform is becoming […] More

Matt Truong serves as director of business development at NCR‘s government systems business unit and is in charge of BD operations throughout the public sector. He joined NCR in May 2014 after two years of work in a similar role within the national defense group of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions. Prior to Kratos, he […] More

A new Strategic Defence Intelligence report released through ReportBuyer states that the global military radar market will reach a value of $13.3 billion by 2024 at a compound annual growth rate of 1.41 percent. ReportBuyer said Monday the “The Global Military Radar Market 2014-2024 – Market Size and Drivers: Market Profile” report also includes an analysis of spending patterns […] More