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Inmarsat has demonstrated its L-band terminal prototype in a move to meet the requirements of intelligence and media customers. The L-band Advanced Communications Element terminal transmitted 10 megabytes per second of video from the Middle East and Africa regions over the Alphasat satellite during the test, Inmarsat said Friday. Peter Hadinger, president of Inmarsat’s U.S. […] More
A new IDC report forecasts the global software-as-a-service market to grow to $50.8 billion in value by 2018. The market research firm published this month a study that indicates the SaaS market will grow at a compound annual rate of 17.6 percent for the five-year forecast period. “Demand for SaaS enterprise applications is accelerating and exceeding […] More
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has won a $72.3 million contract to deliver target drones and technical services to the U.S. Air Force. The company’s Composite Engineering Inc. subsidiary will execute the order for lot 11 aerial targets, non-recurring engineering and support to the client, Kratos said Monday. Kratos’ Micro Systems company will also supply […] More
Deltek has developed a ranking of priorities and technologies based on lists state chief information officers have created for a Washington Post article published Sunday. Derek Johnson, an analyst for Deltek, wrote in an opinion piece for the Post the lists issued by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers were created according to the technologies’ staying […] More
Accenture’s federal services subsidiary has won five task orders worth $19.8 million combined to maintain the U.S. Navy’s enterprise resource planning system and train users on the technology. The company will provide financial and supply chain systems support, technical system development and training support for the Naval Supply Systems Command’s Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania-based business systems center, Accenture said […] More
NASA has discovered the first exoplanet with a repurposed version of the Ball Aerospace-developed Kepler spacecraft. Lead researcher Andrew Vanderburg studied data collected by Kepler in February during a K2 mission test in which the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo’s HARPS-North spectrograph took measurements that confirmed the new find, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. “Kepler may well deliver the first […] More
QinetiQ North America has received a $17.5 million contract from the U.S. Army and a separate $30 million contract from the U.S. Navy to refurbish and modernize the services’ TALON IV military robots. QNA will provide spare parts for the TALON systems fielded in Afghanistan and Iraq and upgrade services to help protect U.S. warfighters in operations, […] More
Eastern Foundry has launched a government technology and innovation incubator in Crystal City in an effort to help companies pursue government business opportunities. Geoff Orazem, Eastern Foundry’s co-founder and CEO, said Tuesday the incubator is intended to provide “reasonably priced office space and business services†to small government contractors. Orazem added that government tech innovators […] More
Raytheon has tested its Gallium Nitride technology for applications in the Earth’s orbit. The company demonstrated the GaN monolithic microwave circuit to evaluate the system’s radiation hardness requirement for space environment, Raytheon said Wednesday. Paul Ferraro, Raytheon’s vice president of technologies programs Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business, said the GaN technology is already integrated into defense systems for […] More
IBM has been selected to maintain the electronic staff record system of the U.K.’s National Health Service under a potential $660 million contract, Computerworld reported Tuesday. Charlotte Jee writes IBM will work to update the system’s user interface, integrate the ESR with NHS’ mail system, record employee photographs and deliver online payslips. The company will begin work […] More
Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy demonstrated an unmanned helicopter off the coast of Naval Base Ventura County on Dec. 5, Point Mugu. Navy and Coast Guard personnel controlled the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter while onboard the USCGC Bertholf national security cutter, Northrop said Tuesday. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Dan Broadhurst, UAS platform manager, said the demo was conducted […] More
Hitachi Consulting has received a certification from SAP to provide hosting services to customers for the SAP HANA platform. As a certified provider, Hitachi will perform information technology services on SAP applications such as proof-of-concepts and deployments of customers’ SAP HANA-based services, Hitachi said Monday. Mike Driessen, a senior vice president at Hitachi Consulting, said the […] More
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