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BAE Systems-built electronic systems aboard more than 300 satellites have logged a cumulative flight time of 10K orbit-years. The company said Monday its single board computers helped power satellites over the past three decades and provided onboard processing functions for government and commercial space missions.
Nick Psaki, principal system engineer at Pure Storage, wrote in a GCN article published Monday that agencies seeking to make data widely available through data democratization should implement a data-centric architecture that brings together on-premises and cloud applications.
Johnathon Caldwell, vice president of navigation systems at Lockheed Martin, told GPS World in an interview published Monday about the on-orbit performance of the first GPS III satellite the company built for the U.S. Air Force. “On Jan. 8 we began broadcasting navigation data across all signal chains, and the satellite has been in checkout mode since then,†Caldwell said of GPS III SV01, which launched in December.
Raytheon will begin installing worldwide the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System’s monitor station receivers in August. “The modernized receivers give GPS OCX the ability to receive and decrypt all GPS III military and civil signals, a critical capability the current system doesn't have," Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services segment, said in a statement published Monday.
In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community's venture capital arm, and Sysdig have entered into a strategic partnership to field a new platform designed to provide government agencies control and insight as they adopt multicloud, containers, Kubernetes and other modern information technology platforms.
A Capewell Aerial Systems-built virtual loadmaster training system has reached full operational capacity at Bradley Air National Guard Base in Connecticut. VLTS is designed to provide trainees with a 360-degree view around the C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft when they wear virtual reality goggles, the 103rd Airlift Wing said Friday.
Chenega Corp.'s healthcare services subsidiary and MedCognition will collaborate on a project to develop augmented reality-based training modules for trauma care in the U.S. military sector.
Wes Kremer, who took over as president of Raytheon’s missile systems business on March 30, told the Arizona Daily Star in an interview published Sunday that a lot of the company’s weapons development programs are “threat-driven.â€
The U.S. Army plans to award six contracts under the Enterprise Information Technology as a Service program using its “other transaction†authority, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. “We are using the OTA process to do the prototyping of how to execute EITaaS more rapidly,†Tara Clements, a spokesperson for the Army’s program executive office for enterprise information systems, said in an email.
Boeing’s prototyping arm plans to begin manufacturing a flat satellite antenna technology in 2020 to facilitate broadband communications for military aircraft, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.Â
Splunk surveyed over 1.3K information technology managers and found that 77 percent of IT respondents in the public sector said finding and utilizing dark and grey data should be considered a top priority, FedScoop reported Thursday. The survey showed that 76 percent of respondents claimed lack of senior-level support at their agencies was a challenge to using dark and grey data.
A top official from Rolls-Royce said the company is set to unveil a new hybrid system it quietly built for nearly a decade to power and operate laser weapons, Defense News reported Thursday.Â
