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

Lockheed Martin will manufacture cryogenic tanks in Louisiana by using technology originally intended to manufacture the Space Shuttle’s external tank in an effort to help meet liquefied natural gas demands. The company will leverage that technology and other program services for propellant handling, test and integration, composites manufacturing, production and tooling design to build the LNG […] More

Northrop Grumman has developed a pulse generation system for the company’s simulation products that used to replicate combat electromagnetic environments. The Advanced Pulse Generator is built with a direct digital synthesizer for creating radio frequency waveforms and is intended for laboratories, anechoic chambers and military testing facilities, Northrop said Monday. Joe Downie, a site director at […] More

Jim Haughwout has joined Savi Technology as the new chief architect, where he will direct the company’s software technology strategies and work to build up its machine learning and artificial intelligence portfolio. Haughwout most recently served as senior vice president of engineering and operations at CustomMade Ventures, the company announced Thursday. He is also a former vice […] More

McAfee has given its fiscal year 2013 Federal Partner of the Year Award to ThunderCat Technology after comparing revenue of all McAfee partners. ThunderCat works to develop its security practices and business model based on McAfee technologies, ThunderCat announced Jan. 1. “The work McAfee is doing with their Stonesoft product line around stopping advanced evasion techniques is […] More

Tony Moraco, chief executive of SAIC, is moving to establish a more direct tie between him and members of his management team in 2014. Chief Information Officer Bob Fecteau and Chief Communications Officer Lucy Fitch will both report directly to Moraco beginning sometime after Feb. 1, the contractor said, as will Jennifer Smith, senior vice […] More

A new Cisco study estimates that public sector organizations could generate $4.6 trillion in value from Internet-connected objects over the next 10 years. State agencies could generate $682 billion in value by applying the Internet of Everything to public services and cities worldwide could also derive $1.9 trillion through the IoE over the next decade, Cisco said Wednesday. “With […] More

The new website developed by the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Consumer Electronics Association and Monster Worldwide to help veterans find work in the information technology sector is now live. USTechVets.org is designed with a skills translator to help users match their backgrounds with available jobs and built to contain a database of more than 800,000 […] More

Jeff Trauberman oversees a diverse set of programs and projects at Boeing in his role as vice president of space, intelligence and missile defense for government operations. The nearly two-decade company veteran overviewed his roles and responsibilities in a July 2012 conversation with ExecutiveBiz, where he also gave insight into the company’s push for a […] More

IBM plans to invest more than $1 billion in its newly-established Watson Group business for building and marketing cloud-based cognitive technologies in an effort to help answer customer queries from large volumes of data. Michael Rhodin, formerly IBM’s senior vice president for software services group, will lead the Watson Group and that business will focus on research […] More

Lockheed Martin has awarded L-3 Communication Systems-East a contract of an undisclosed value to design a communications subsystem for deployment onboard Canada’s arctic and offshore patrol ships. L-3 CS-East will provide automated components for maritime communications equipment under the Canadian navy’s AOPS project, for which Lockheed is a supplier, L-3 said Wednesday. “The interior and exterior […] 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