Level 3 Communications has been awarded a subcontract to provide connectivity services for Northrop Grumman-built simulation and training systems used by the Air Force. The Air Force’s distributed mission operation network uses Northrop simulators that are designed for the branch to train pilots on aerial refueling and other complex flight maneuvers, Level 3 said Tuesday. Northrop […] More

The C4ISR group of DRS Technologies Inc. has won a supplier excellence award from Northrop Grumman, which DRS said recognized the sensitive programs support DRS has provided to Northrop’s information systems sector. Winners of the Northrop Grumman supplier excellence award, which also included Harris Corp., were judged based on five factors: schedule, management, technical acumen, […] More

Dell’s healthcare and life sciences unit has partnered with the Cleveland Clinic to deliver electronic health record services to health institutions nationwide, based on the clinic’s Epic Systems-developed EHR, Modern Healthcare reported Monday. Joseph Conn writes the EHR system can either be installed and run on-site or remotely hosted and delivered by Dell as software-as-a-service. According […] More

A Lockheed Martin demonstration using a wideband, multi-access payload and U.S. Navy satellites worked to exhibit radio coverage through the Arctic region and show how military field personnel could carry out polar communications. Lockheed tested the Wideband Code Division Multiple Access payload’s coverage by using radios in the North Pole and sent voice and data […] More

Rich White joined Capstone Corporation in May 2013 and serves as chief executive at the provider of information; training; and strategy, planning and operations solutions and services to the federal government. White joined Capstone from Harris Corp, where he spent more than 30 years and held executive leadership positions in areas including space, intelligence, information […] More

A new Gallup and Wells Fargo survey indicates nearly half of U.S. small business owner respondents claim they feel the same way about their companies’ outlook as they did at end of the previous year, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. J.D. Harrison writes about a quarter or 23 percent of the 600 employers surveyed are […] More