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Raytheon has entered full-rate production of its Standard Missile-6 rocket for the U.S. Navy at the company’s Redstone Arsenal production facility in Alabama. “Full-rate production allows us to significantly ramp up production and deliver to the U.S. Navy the quantities it needs to further increase operational effectiveness,” Mike Campisi, SM-6 senior program director at Raytheon, said Wednesday. The SM-6 […] More
SAP and Hewlett-Packard have partnered to deliver a joint offering that supports the migration of business applications to SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA via the HP Helion Managed Cloud. SAP said Tuesday the companies will also provide consulting, software, application migration and implementation services to customers that seek to transition workloads into a digital platform. Michael Kleinemeier, member of SAP’s global […] More
Liteye Systems and Unmanned Experts have partnered to deliver a thermal imaging payload for unmanned aerial vehicles that features DRS Technologies‘ Tamarisk thermal camera core. The companies said Tuesday the Aquila Micro payload has a “Powered by DRS” accreditation and includes a built-in automatic shutter, DRS’ Image Contrast Enhancement tool and three athermalized, all-weather lens options. Aquila Micro is already available for shipping, the […] More
The Defense Information Systems Agency has given provisional authorization to 23 commercial cloud service offerings for the hosting of Defense Department data at Impact Level 2, which covers noncontrolled unclassified information. DISA said Monday the offerings comply with the moderate baseline of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). “The granting of these provisional authorizations is an important […] More
Harris Corp. and ViaSat will increase production of the Small Tactical Terminal for U.S. soldiers under a one-year, $10 million follow-on contract, bringing the total deal value to at least $25 million since the original award in 2010. Harris said Monday it co-developed the product with ViaSat to provide soldiers access to tactical communications using a compact and […] More
Chris Smith, vice president of technology at AT&T‘s government solutions unit and a former chief information officer from the Agriculture Department, has described his outlook on current developments in cyber-related legislation in a Federal News Radio interview. In that conversation posted Monday on Federal News Radio that he sees progress in movement toward legislation of cyber information sharing and the overhaul of […] More
Harris Corp. has completed testing and verification of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series ground segment ahead of the satellite’s delivery to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said Monday the tests checked the GOES-R ground system’s capability to generate weather data for NOAA and interface with the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System of the National Weather […] More
The State Department is seeking potential small business sources of support services for the financial management, compensation, travel and budget and planning systems of the Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services. In a notice posted April 21 on FedBizOpps, the department said it is looking for system analysis, implementation and support services for […] More
Lockheed Martin has integrated the first GPS III satellite’s system module with the propulsion core as part of the company’s program to deliver satellite navigation functions to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Monday the systems integration for GPS III space vehicle one brings together components such as the navigation payload and electronics to operate the satellite. “This summer, […] More
IBM has reported two new developments in its ongoing work to build what the company calls a “practical” quantum computer as part of efforts to advance quantum computing to solve scientific problems in the fields of physics and chemistry. “Quantum computing could be potentially transformative, enabling us to solve problems that are impossible or impractical to solve today,” […] More
RSA President Amit Yoran has indicated some wariness of the government’s role in the country’s cyber defense efforts and said industry should take the lead role in that initiative, he told IDG News Service in an interview published Wednesday. Yoran, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2015, instead called on government to share its own collected threat intelligence with industry in […] More
UMT360 and Project Hosts have partnered to bring the former’s enterprise portfolio management services — which integrate with Microsoft‘s Project Online and Project Server software – to government agencies via the latter’s FedRAMP-compliant cloud. UMT360 said Wednesday its EPM cloud service works to support business and financial decision-making. “[It’s] even easier than ever for finance, IT and PMO leaders within […] More
