Latest stories

in Featured, General, Industry News, News

Boeing to Establish Autonomous Tech Program in Australia; Chris Raymond Comments

Boeing has announced it will establish an Australia-based development program for autonomous technologies. The company said Thursday the three-year program will be conducted in Queensland, and seeks to increase the autonomous capacities of both air and sea vehicles. Chris Raymond, vice president and general manager of Boeing’s autonomous systems division, said the program is part […] More

by Nichols Martin March 2, 2018, 10:13 am
in Featured, General, Industry News, News

Jacobs-Beca Team Selected as Australian Defense CASG Service Provider; Darren Kraabel Comments

A team ofÂ Jacobs Engineering Group and Beca has received a contract to provide support services to the Australian defense department’sÂ capability, acquisition and sustainment group. The alliance is one of four contractor teams selected for theÂ Major Service Provider initiative that will offer “above the line” contracting support to CASG, Beca said Feb. 16. Darren Kraabel, senior […] More

by Ramona Adams March 2, 2018, 9:06 am
in Featured, General, Industry News, News

Cubic-Thales Team to Bid for UK Joint Fires Synthetic Training Project; Dave Buss Comments

Cubicâ€™s global defense business and Thales have partnered to compete for the U.K. defense ministryâ€™s Joint Fires Synthetic TrainingÂ project. Cubic said Thursday the JFST project is part of the Training and Simulation Systems Program and seeks to provide joint fires systems to support the training of the British armed forces across ground, aerial and littoral […] More

by Jane Edwards March 2, 2018, 4:00 am
in Featured, General

Centcom Launches Operational Alignment & Rebalancing Effort; Gen. Joseph Votel Comments

TheÂ U.S. Central Command has launched an effort to realign its operations following the U.S. military’s progress in the fight against the Islamic State militant group,Â DoD News reported Tuesday. Gen. Joseph Votel, head of Centcom, told House Armed Services Committee members Tuesday that the command aims to achieve three goals to support regional stability. Votel saidÂ the […] More

by Ramona Adams February 28, 2018, 11:46 am
in C4ISR News, Featured, General, News

Matt Desch: Iridium Expects Late-March Launch for 5th â€˜NEXTâ€™ Satellite Batch

Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, has said the company is likely to launch on March 29 the fifth batch of 10Â Iridium NEXTÂ satellites aboardÂ aÂ SpaceX-builtÂ Falcon 9Â rocket, SpaceNews reported Monday. Desch, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, added the company expects subsequent launches to occur every five to six weeks to complete the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation. The sixth […] More

by Jane Edwards February 27, 2018, 3:51 am
in Featured, General, Industry News, News

CAE Delivers Predator RPA Training System to Italian Air Force; Gene Colabatistto Comments

Italy’s air force has received aÂ CAE-built Predator Mission TrainerÂ that is designed to train military operators ofÂ General Atomics‘ remotely piloted aircraft. CAE said SundayÂ it worked withÂ General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business to develop the trainer that representsÂ the ItalianÂ PredatorÂ AÂ RPA during phase one of delivery. Gene Colabatistto, president of CAE’s defense and security group, the company applied its decades […] More

by Nichols Martin February 26, 2018, 10:32 am
in Featured, General, Industry News, News

Survey Highlights Data Sharing Opportunity in Federal IT Modernization Efforts; Red Hatâ€™s David Egts Comments

A new report by MeriTalk has found that 73 percent of federal information technology leaders said that deriving data from legacy applications is vital in efforts to advance government reform and use of shared services. The publicationÂ said Thursday it conducted an online survey of 275 federal IT leaders in January for the report, which was […] More

by Jane Edwards February 23, 2018, 4:00 am
in Cybersecurity News, Featured, General, News

Thales: Federal Agencies Saw 20% Rise in Data Breaches; Nick Jovanovic Comments

A new report by Thales says 57 percent of U.S. federal government respondents claimed their agencies experienced a data breach over the past year. The figure in the “2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition” shows a 23-percent increase from the 2017 report, which revealed thatÂ 34 percent of respondents encountered a breach, Thales said Thursday. […] More

by Ramona Adams February 22, 2018, 9:35 am
in Featured, General, News, Products & Service

Ashish Khot: Technomile to Integrate Caroll Publishing Data Into GovCon Suite

Technomile andÂ Carroll Publishing have partnered with the intent to offer contact and account data products for government contractors. McLean, Virginia-basedÂ Technomile said WednesdayÂ it aims to help the company’s GovCon SuiteÂ customers use data in their capture and contract lifecycle management processes. GovCon Suite comprises cloud-based applications for vendors to track contracts and task orders, gather agency spending […] More

by Nichols Martin February 22, 2018, 8:38 am
in Cybersecurity News, Featured, General, News

SAIC, Community DNS Jointly Offer DDoS Protection Services; Paul Welch Comments

Science Applications International Corp.Â has partnered withÂ Community DNS to introduce a suite of cybersecurity and intelligence service offerings designed to protect information technology platforms from distributed denial of service attacks. SAIC said Wednesday the services will work to help clients avoid DDoS and other domain name system-based attacks without requiring them to purchase software or hardware. […] More

by Ramona Adams February 22, 2018, 7:45 am
in Featured, General, Industry News, News

Red Hatâ€™s David Egts: Microservices Tech Could Help Simplify App Deployment

David Egts, chief technologist forÂ Red Hatâ€™s public sector, told MeriTalk in an interviewÂ published Wednesday that the microservices technology works to help the developer split complex, large applications into small components and share them with other members of the DevOps team. â€œInstead of one big hulking team working on one big hulking application, you can have […] More

by Jane Edwards February 22, 2018, 6:53 am
in Featured, General, Government Cloud, News

Red Hatâ€™s David Egts: Federal IT Teams Play a Role in Public Cloud Security

David Egts, chief technologist forÂ Red Hatâ€™s public sector, has said federal information technology leaders should take responsibility in ensuring the security of their agenciesâ€™ public cloud platforms. Egts wrote in a GCN guest post published Tuesday that agency IT professionals seeking to secure applications in software-as-a-service cloud environments should correctly establish content permissions and conduct […] More

by Jane Edwards February 21, 2018, 6:25 am