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Orbital ATK will produce the launch abort motor for the Orion spaceflight capsule’s launch abort system under a $98 million subcontract from Lockheed Martin. The company will design, develop and test the launch abort motor at three facilities in Utah, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. “The benefit of using a solid launch abort motor is being able to […] More
General Atomics executives have visited a site in Grand Forks, North Dakota as part of a discussion with Sen. John Hoeven to open an unmanned aerial systems training center in the region. Hoeven’s office said Monday the senator accompanied Frank Pace, president of General Atomics’ aircraft systems group, and Bart Roper, the group’s vice president […] More
International Data Corp. has released a new report that forecasts cloud information technology infrastructure spending to account for 46.5 percent of overall IT infrastructure spending by 2019. IDC said Monday the projected $54.6 billion in cloud IT infrastructure spending by 2019 would represent a compound annual growth rate of 15.6 percent from 2015 through 2019. “The breadth and width of […] More
Intevac Photonics has been awarded a $24 million contract to supply night vision cameras for the U.S. Army’s Apache Helicopter’s pilot night vision sensor program. The new contract extends a previous deal the Army awarded to the Intevac Inc. subsidiary in 2013, Intevac said Monday. Intevac Photonics is scheduled to complete the delivery of electronic […] More
Kevin Desouza, a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for Technology Innovation, has said new technologies are changing the way local governments perform their duties. Desouza wrote in a blog post for Brookings Institution published June 2 that driverless cards, digital currencies, artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles are some of the technologies that lead […] More
Symantec CEO Michael Brown believes the Internet of Things brings a “huge opportunity†for the company in its efforts to help protect e-commerce transactions, Economic Times reported Friday. Brown told Economic Times’ TV Mahalingam that Symantec considers endpoint protection as its biggest business. “We protect a billion devices today… from set top boxes, point of […] More
Lockheed Martin has begun to demonstrate a new electronic warfare pod in an anechoic chamber. The electronic warfare package contains a suite of systems in one unit and fits various platforms, Lockheed said Thursday. Brigitte Aungier, Lockheed’s EW business development head, said the company’s electronic warfare offering is designed “to understand the electromagnetic battlespace through passive […] More
Orbital ATKÂ has been awarded a five-year, $25 million contract to engineer and repair the munitions tester and reprogrammer system of the U.S. Air Force and foreign military sales clients. The company will also perform technical and logistics services for the automated test systems division within the Agile Combat Support Directorate at Robins Air Force Base […] More
Accenture and Avanade have been selected to migrate the email service of England’s Health Department and Scotland’s National Health Service to a new cloud-based platform in a move to help social workers collaborate. The companies will implement a new directory and Lync collaboration technology for instant messaging, voice over Internet protocol, audio and video communication, […] More
Red Hat has begun to offer the Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA platform on the Amazon Web Services marketplace in a move to help clients deploy big data workloads. Customers will have an additional option to process data analytics tasks with the listing of the open source service on AWS, Red Hat said Wednesday. “The addition […] More
Christopher Ames, director of international strategic development for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, has noted at several indicators that he said point to a “growing interest in maritime surveillance,†DoD Buzz reported Tuesday. Brendan McGarry writes the Department of Homeland Security bought a fleet of a maritime-configured variant of the General Atomics-built Predator B aircraft to aid in the U.S.-Mexico […] More
The applied research organization of Vencore has been awarded a $4.8 million second-phase contract to continue its work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on defenses for networking and data link layers of wireless networks. Vencore Labs will apply the technologies developed during phase one of the Wireless Network Defense program to disparate U.S. military wireless networks, Vencore said […] More
