Two Cubic cryptographic modules have received the FIPS 140-2 validation status from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment after testing and analysis work by Aegisolve. The Managed Asset Tag Cryptographic Module and SINK Cryptographic Module basis for its mist mesh networking product were validated as compliant to federal data security requirements, Cubic said […] More

Sterling Global Operations opened its Mauritania-based command center on Thursday to work with customers in the industrial, commercial, energy, banking and finance sectors. The center’s opening featured a presentation on SGO services for local businesses and government officials, SGO said Thursday. “Our command center in Mauritania will provide integrated solutions for risk management, safety, logistics and expeditionary […] More

Joseph L. Mejaly has been selected to serve as the next vice president and general manager of AxleTech International, a subsidiary of General Dynamics. In his new role, Mejaly will be responsible for implementing strategies of continued product development and delivery within the company’s global management team, General Dynamics announced Friday. AxleTech, a developer of […] More

A U.K. research facility has deployed an Agilent Technologies scanning microscopy device to support experimental studies on two-dimensional materials, including graphene. The 5600LS atomic force microscope was installed at the Cambridge Graphene Centre, a nanotechnology innovation hub backed by the European Commission, Agilent said Thursday. Agilent’s instrument works by using an electrical characterization method to […] More

General Electric Co. has moved to grow its smart grid services customer base by adding new municipal and rural utilities clients for the subscription-based offering, Greentech Media reported Thursday. Jeff St. John writes at least six more customers have subscribed to GE’s Grid IQ solutions-as-a-service unit in addition to existing clients such as the municipal […] More

Air France has selected a Hewlett Packard cloud management platform to monitor physical and virtual cloud computing resources across the airline’s enterprise. The French carrier uses HP’s Cloud Service Automation system with Operations Orchestration and Server Automation software programs to automate application deployments and server provisioning in a private cloud network, HP said Jan. 14. […] More

Citrix and big data analytics provider Zettics have partnered to develop traffic management and analytics services offerings for mobile network customers. Zettics’ analytics technology will be integrated into Citrix’s ByteMobile portfolio for operators to analyze data consumption on their networks and to respond to events based on that analysis, Citrix said Thursday. Chris Koopmans, vice […] More

Digital Management Inc. has delivered an enterprise mobility infrastructure to the U.S. Agriculture Department for monitoring devices and applications across the 29-unit agency. DMI built the system under a potential five-year, $20 million contract, the company said Wednesday. USDA’s system is comprised of a mobile device management, an app store and a data encryption platform […] More

Verizon‘s enterprise services arm will offer its cloud computing customers access to the SAP HANA platform. SAP intends to deploy its cloud platform to customers through Verizon’s ecosystem that comprises of the eCloud, Managed Hosting and the new Verizon Cloud environments, Verizon said Wednesday. John Harrobin, chief marketing officer for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said the company […] More

VMware Inc. has agreed to acquire mobile management and security provider AirWatch for nearly $1.2 billion in cash and $365 million of installment payments and equity. The AirWatch team will continue reporting to John Marshall, founder and CEO, and will operate within VMware’s end-user computing group led by Sanjay Poonen, executive vice president and general […] More

Thad Dungan has been elected to the board of directors of NovoDynamics, a pattern recognition and analytics technologies company. Dungan serves as the vice president of the products and innovation group at SAP, NovoDynamics said Tuesday. He will work with David Rock, NovoDynamics president and chief executive. “The focus that companies continue to place on big […] More

CAE has reported that it sold 43 full-flight simulators in fiscal 2014, a new record for the Montreal, Canada-based firm. The company also recently signed a $64 million contract to provide Air Canada with a B787 simulator, another B737NG simulator to an undisclosed North American customer and two A320 simulators and one B737NG simulator to […] More