Ramona Adams

Marty Williams, technology vice president of digital government services provider NIC, has said government agencies could address the need for citizen-centric digital services through a “product and platform” delivery approach. Williams wrote in an article published Thursday on GCN that a product and platform mindset allows information technology teams to continuously deploy microservices within a platform […] More

Peter Hadinger, president of Inmarsat‘s U.S. government business unit, has said that ongoing military operations require an improved acquisition model for satellite communications and further integration of commercial satcom systems. Hadinger stated during a presentation at the Global MilSatCom 2017 event in London that military satcom challenges stem from budget, acquisition and cultural issues instead of technological capabilities, Inmarsat said Friday. […] More

Lt. Gen. Michael Hood, commander of the Canadian air force, has said he wants to speed up the purchase of new fighter aircraft to replace Canada’s fleet of F/A-18 Hornet jets, Defense News reported Saturday. Hood told the publication that Canada currently plans to release a request for proposals by 2019 for 88 fighter jets that will replace […] More

Orbital ATK‘s Cygnus spacecraft launched Sunday morning at NASA‘s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia aboard an Antares rocket to bring approximately 7,400 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station. Cygnus lifted off at 7:19 a.m. Eastern time to deliver equipment, supplies and experiments to ISS crew as part of Orbital ATK’s eighth Commercial Resupply Services mission, the company said Sunday. […] More

The German air force has indicated a preference for Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to replace the service’s fleet of Tornado fighter jets, Jane’s 360 reported Wednesday. A senior official from Germany’s air force told Jane’s 360 that the military branch has shortlisted potential Tornado replacements and it believes F-35 meets most program requirements and offers […] More

A small satellite built by Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary for Telesat has been delivered to the Vostochny Cosmodrome launch base in Eastern Russia ahead of its scheduled late November launch aboard a Soyuz-2 rocket. SSL said the satellite will be one of two Phase 1 spacecraft that will help Telesat test the key performance parameters of its future low […] More

A new survey commissioned by Accenture and Salesforce says 49 percent of U.S. adults prefer to access government services through websites. Accenture said Tuesday 31 percent of respondents cited agency-specific telephone service as the most desired type of access; 25 percent prefer mobile devices without the use of applications; and 21 percent favor a single 311 telephone […] More

The Defense Department has begun to exchange initial price and technical data with Japan on the ground-based Aegis missile defense system to kick-off an acquisition process that could lead to a formal notification to Congress of a potential foreign military sale,  Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Japan aims to purchase two Aegis Ashore systems from the U.S. government and start […] More

NASA has selected Super Micro Computer to help expand the capacity of computing and data analytics systems at the space agency’s Center for Climate Simulation. Supermicro said Monday it will provide a company-built Rack Scale platform that will offer 1.56 petaflops of additional computing capacity to NCCS. NCCS is located within the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology […] More