Jane Edwards

BAE Systems has entered into a strategic collaboration with Red Hat and The Weather Company, an IBM business, to incorporate weather data and related insights into synthetic training environments to enhance decision-making capabilities during military operations. BAE said Monday its military simulation environments leverage the Red Hat OpenShift container platform and The Weather Company's experience in integrating weather data with the Department of Defense's frameworks.

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James Clevenger, director of government sales at Hughes Network Systems, said government agencies transitioning to the General Services Administration’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract should consider deploying low Earth orbit satellite connectivity to expand their broadband capacity and transport options. In an opinion piece published Friday, Clevenger wrote that LEO satellites have the capability to deliver low latency connectivity in remote locations, supporting videoconferencing and other latency-intensive applications.

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Mitre has opened a laboratory at its campus in Bedford, Massachusetts, to expand work on marine technologies meant to help ensure national, climate and economic security. The Blue Tech Lab has a 620,000-gallon test tank designed to accommodate communication and acoustic sensing studies and the use of unmanned surface and undersea vehicles, Mitre said Monday.

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