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A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has completed its work to design a deformable mirror for a solar telescope. AOA Xinetics engineered the ground-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Maui, Hawaii with funds from the National Science Foundation, Northrop said Thursday. The National Solar Observatory and the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy led development work […] More
FireEye has identified a group of state-backed hackers the company says is responsible for a new advanced persistent threat that is designed to evade detection. FireEye said Wednesday the APT29 group behind the Hammertoss malware originates from Russia and is supported by the Kremlin. “The novel approach APT29 takes to carry out its attacks and […] More
Lockheed Martin has formed a healthcare technology alliance to consolidate the health information technology services of partners such as academic institutions and medical technology firms. The company said Wednesday group members include Cisco, Cloudera, Illumina, Intel and Montgomery College. Alliance members will work to develop technology services for efforts to protect patient data, extract results from genomic research […] More
NCI Inc. has been awarded a $9.4 million contract to maintain and operate the U.S. Army’s Network Enterprise Center at Fort Benning in Georgia. The company will administer, install and engineer classified and unclassified communication systems for the center, NCI said Wednesday. The contract contains a one-year base period and one 12-month option year. “We […] More
David King, the newly-appointed CEO at Dynetics, said the company has been “making great progress†on its initiative to enter the hardware market, AL reported Wednesday. “I want us to continue to do great work for our customers,†he told AL’s Lucy Berry in a discussion of his priorities and goals for Dynetics. “Maintaining the way we do business and […] More
Airbus and Lockheed Martin have been selected to update eight of the German navy’s warfare airplanes. The companies will perform re-winging services on the P-3C Orion maritime patrol and anti-submarine fleet under an eight-year contract, Airbus said Wednesday. “Once installed, these new wings will extend the life of each German Navy P-3 by 15,000 hours […] More
BlackBerry Ltd. has received a new Defense Department approval to deploy the company’s mobile device public key infrastructure credentials throughout the department. DoD personnel will use the BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 smartphones to access and share data without the use of common access card tools for security, BlackBerry said Thursday. “The DoD approval demonstrates how […] More
Lockheed Martin and StemRad have started to study the potential application of StemRad’s radiation shielding technology to deep-space operations. The goal is to modify StemRad 360 Gamma into a radiation protection system that is intended to help protect astronauts during missions, Lockheed said Monday. Randy Sweet, business development director for civil space at Lockheed Martin, said the company […] More
MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that forecasts the analytics-as-a-service market to grow 40.3 percent year-over-year to $23.03 billion by 2020 from $4.23 billion in 2015, driven by low total cost of ownership and scalability. The report notes a growing adoption of analytics-as-a-service among large, small and medium businesses worldwide due to the increase in […] More
Harris Corp. and information and communications technology provider CPqD have been selected to assist the Brazilian air force in monitoring Brazil’s airspace control system equipment. Network operations personnel will use the two companies’ technologies to keep track of surveillance, navigation and communications systems, as well as detect issues across the South American country’s ATC network, Harris said Monday. Under the […] More
CACI International has received a task order from the U.S. Army to assist the service branch in efforts to combat improvised explosive devices. The company will perform rapid response technical forensics and exploitation services under the contract, CACI said Monday. “With this award to continue our support for the Army’s technical forensics and exploitation mission, we […] More
BAE Systems Plc seeks to place a bid for Germany’s planned combat ship contract, Big News Network reported Saturday. The company plans to modify its British Royal Navy Type 26 frigate in order to conform to Germany’s naval ship standards, according to the report. The German Defense Ministry is set to ask industry sources to […] More
