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BlackBerry has launched at this week’s O’Reilly Solid Conference in San Francisco its Project Ion series of initiatives to drive the Internet of Things by developing resources to extract insight from large amounts of data. “Billions of connections, generating trillions of transactions and exabytes of data daily, will require platforms that can operate securely on a global […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has received a one-year task order worth up to $13 million from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for sustainment and maintenance support for the Cooperative Threat Reduction program. SAIC said Thursday it will provide support for the acquisition, storage, distribution, maintenance, evacuation and disposition of materials and infrastructure operations, assessment, repairs and maintenance. […] More
Northrop Grumman has received approval from the Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate to move forward in the company’s development work on a space-based communications system after completing a design review. The company said Wednesday it has reviewed the Enhanced Polar System Control And Planning Segment‘s hardware and software designs and checked if these have met CAPS requirements for verification, […] More
General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems unit has entered into a partnership with Rohde & Schwarz to integrate air traffic control radio systems into the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft, which is used in border control missions. General Atomics said Wednesday the technology integration is designed to create “certifiable” Predator B aircraft, which are exportable RPAs that work […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne will supply six RL10C-1 production engines to Stratolaunch Systems Corp. under a contract for the third stage of a commercial air-launch system for Stratolaunch’s unmanned Thunderbolt rocket. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday the contract also contains an option for six additional RL10C-1 engines for The Eagles Launch System, which is scheduled to launch Thunderbolt into space in 2018. “This contract expands our reach into […] More
Hughes Network Systems will provide an HX broadband satellite system and terminals for delivering satellite Internet services to the Colombian subsidiary of satellite operator HISPASAT. The contract is part of the Vive Digital program, through which Colombia’s ministry of information technology and communication aims to increase Internet access in the country, Hughes said Tuesday. “HISPASAT is helping Colombia make a technological leap through […] More
DynCorp International and the U.S. Army‘s Red River Army Depot have inked a public-private partnership agreement to integrate the company’s land systems life-cycle support capabilities with RRAD’s depot-level operations. Michael Herrington, vice president of operations for DynGlobal Group, said Tuesday that the new agreement makes his company better able to handle surge requirements, due to the utilization of the U.S. […] More
Ed Morche leads Level 3 Communications‘ government markets group as its senior vice president and general manager, leading all functional activities in support of the firm’s civilian, defense, intelligence and other customers. In that role, the more-than-20-year telecommunications veteran also sets strategic direction for the firm’s capture strategy for government contracts. Morche recently caught up […] More
BAE Systems and Infor have partnered to install and operate the latter’s enterprise resource planning software on U.S. government networks for consolidating an organization’s functions into a single computer system. The partnership covers deployment of the Infor Public Sector (Hansen) suite, Infor ION, Infor Enterprise Asset Management, Infor Lawson and Infor Approva, the companies said Tuesday. “Our relationship with BAE Systems is […] More
Ball Aerospace & Technologies has received a three-year, $4.3 million contract from NASA to develop a High Spectral Resolution Lidar for aerosols, winds and clouds and design that tool to use the Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar. The HAWC-OAWL product will work to help scientists determine the effects of particular wind profiles and transport of aerosols and water […] More
Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-3 Block IB has recently been deployed by the U.S. Navy and the Missile Defense Agency as part of the Phased Adaptive Approach’s second phase. Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon Missile Systems, said Sunday the completion and results of operational testing for the SM-3 Block IB is intended to boost ballistic missile countermeasures. The 2015 deployment of the […] More
IBM will build an open-source hybrid cloud infrastructure for South Korea’s anti-corruption and civil rights commission to centralize operations and consolidate public service phone numbers into one communications channel. The company said Friday that the agency has adopted the IBM zCloud platform for electronic services such as e-People and The 110 Government Call Center, which processes complaints, civil petitions and administrative appeals. […] More
