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Rockwell Collins will serve as lead research firm for NASA‘s Single Pilot Operations program under a contract to study automation, ground support and crew capacity technologies for commercial aircraft through the end of September 2015. “The aviation industry has been looking at the potential for single-pilot operations for quite some time to address concerns about future pilot […] More
Research and Markets has released a new prediction that the global Internet security market will achieve an 8.1-percent compound annual growth rate through 2020 to reach a market value of $42.8 billion. The company said Friday this growth is due to an increase in adoption of Internet-based applications in sectors such as financial services and an increase in security threats. In its report, […] More
Several of Dell‘s networking switches have received certification from the Defense Department on interoperability and information assurance capabilities and are now included in the DoD Unified Capabilities Approved Products List. The company said Monday the certification means federal agencies can now use Dell’s S4810, S4820T, S6000 and Z9000 switches to support networking operations. “We are pleased to see that several of our […] More
Cray will provide the Defense Department with two XC40 supercomputers and two Sonexion storage systems to support the military’s High-Performance Computing Modernization Program under a $30 million contract. The company said Monday the U.S. Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center at the John C. Stennis Space Center will house the Cray systems intended to support the production of coastal-ocean circulation and wave-model oceanography data. “[DoD HPCMP] remains […] More
Shane Imwalle, a senior vice president at Woolpert, sees further opportunities for the company in unmanned aircraft systems after the Federal Aviation Administration certified Woolpert to fly drones on surveying missions in Ohio, the Dayton Business Journal reported Thursday. Imwalle told the newspaper the company plans to add UAS piloting and data analysis jobs as Woolpert seeks to leverage its […] More
L-3 Communications CEO Michael Strianese has said his work as chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association involves continued efforts to work with Congress and the Defense Department in areas such as budget cuts and innovation. Strianese told Defense News in an interview posted Saturday that AIA seeks to stop sequestration and its impact on U.S. technological advantage due to a lack of investments in research and […] More
Apple and IBM have partnered to offer the first batch of IBM MobileFirst for iOS applications that deliver big data and analytics functions to enterprise customers in sectors such as government whose workers use iPhone and iPad devices. Bridget van Kralingen, senior vice president at IBM Global Business Services, said Wednesday that the collaboration works to help businesses adopt enterprise mobility technologies for individual engagement […] More
Research and Markets forecasts that the banking, financial services and institutions (BFSI) security market currently valued at $21.53 billion will reach a market value of $37.35 billion by 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 11.6 percent. The firm said Monday that the BFSI security market is segmented into two widely adopted submarkets, the physical security systems […] More
A new MarketsandMarkets report indicates that the mobile data protection market will be worth $3.54 billion by 2019 due to the demand for measures that protect enterprise data as companies adopt bring-your-own-device and other mobility practices. The firm said Friday that the market value will climb at a compound annual growth rate of 22.4 percent over the next five years, […] More
Transparency Market Research (TMR) stated in a new report that it expects the global big data market to grow at a 40.5-percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2012 through 2019, reaching a market value of $48.3 billion. Growing at a CAGR of 45.3-percent the storage sector represents the largest share of revenues. The report stated that technology applications in […] More
IBM has developed and patented an automated, analytics-based technique for the movement of workloads between cloud centers in an effort to help bolster the performance of cloud computing systems. The company said Tuesday the “dynamic” cloud management technology uses analytics to determine the optimal allocation of cloud resources and works to provide greater control over deployments and workloads. “Cloud delivery models are […] More
QTS has established Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program compliance for its QTS Federal Cloud offering following a third-party security assessment by Veris Group. The company said Wednesday it secured FedRAMP compliance through the CSP Supplied path, allowing federal agencies to assess the company’s security package for agency-specific security authorization. Chad Williams, chairman and CEO of QTS, said FedRAMP compliance enables […] More
