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Technavio is seeing a growing market appetite for unmanned ground vehicles and has predicted that the UGV market will set a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent from 2015 through 2019. Technavio’s new report attributes this market trend to a growing preference for the UGV’s functions in rescue operations, detonation of explosives and detection of enemy […] More
Raytheon has relocated its environmental satellite ground sustainment team to Maryland as part of a move to upgrade the existing satellite system of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The team that maintains the NASA/NOAA joint polar satellite system common ground system moved from Aurora, Colorado, to Riverdale near NOAA’s satellite operations facility in Suitland […] More
TeleCommunication Systems has been selected to deploy its VirtuMedix telemedicine system for the patients of Infinity HealthCare and Emergency Physician Medical Group in the Midwest region. Infinity HealthCare and EPMG physicians will engage patients via computers and mobile devices on VirtuMedix’s cloud-based architecture, TCS said Thursday. Jay Whitehurst, TCS commercial software group president, said the company […] More
Boeing Co. has received the first signals of its ninth global positioning system IIF satellite from space. Boeing said the GPS IIF took off Wednesday aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and reached the orbit after more than three hours. Aerojet Rocketdyne supplied the propulsion system […] More
World Wide Technology will offer Polatis’ optical switching systems to customers in the enterprise and government sectors under a reseller agreement between both companies. WWT will deploy Polatis’ optical switches with Cisco in a retailer’s multivendor optical network and protect the network in a 16-slot, layer 2/3 multiservice platform, Polatis said Tuesday. Polatis and WWT are also collaborating […] More
Lockheed Martin plans to upgrade a wind tunnel in Grand Prairie, Texas it has acquired from Triumph Aerostructures. The company previously leased the facility and has performed subsonic, transonic and supersonic research and development tests there, the company said Wednesday. “The high speed wind tunnel in Grand Prairie is an aerospace engineering treasure, serving as a proving ground […] More
CGI has been selected to support the U.K. military’s fire control battlefield information system application and fire control application system. CGI will provide software applications support for FC BISA and the FCA, and hardware support for the FCA handheld computer platform. Daniel James, a project manager at the British defense ministry, added that the FCA system […] More
GE’s intelligent platforms business will perform a six-month research on radar systems in an effort to help the U.S. Air Force establish open architectures for future radar processors onboard the service’s platforms. The research program covers the benchmarking and optimization of synthetic aperture radar and ground moving target indicator radar modes on multiprocessor high-performance embedded […] More
Research and Markets has released a new report that foresees growing terrorist activities will spur the global surveillance market for hazard protection to a compound annual growth rate of 16.1 percent from 2014 through 2019. The market analyst said Monday surveillance systems, protection equipment and decontamination services are tools to prevent hazards. Research and Markets also attributed those […] More
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have started to construct an S-band ground-based radar system at Kwajalein Atoll on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Space Fence will replace the Air Force’s legacy space surveillance system to monitor objects in orbit and predict space-based collisions, Lockheed said Monday. The Air Force awarded the $914.7 million Space Fence engineering […] More
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded a five-year contract to a subsidiary of Intergraph for geospatial software and services. Intergraph Government Solutions will deliver its ERDAS product line, GeoMedia and cartographic web services to NGA, IGS said Monday. The subsidiary will also perform related software maintenance under the contract. IGS’ cartographic web services are designed […] More
Engility Holdings will develop simulation-based war games in support of the warfare training for Pacific Theater forces under a $34.9 million contract. The company will work to create scenarios, configure training spaces and simulate world environments through command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems, Engility said Tuesday. The contract contains a one-year base period and four […] More
