Government Technology

Exelis is featuring products for its ISR, analytics and critical networks portfolio at the GEOINT Symposium Monday through Thursday in Tampa, Fla. This will be Exelis’ 10th year of attendance at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s annual GEOINT Symposium, the company announced Monday. “The GEOINT symposium is a key event that brings together the most […] More

NetApp will work with Wichita State University to help the school run a future innovation center with the goal of creating more jobs in Wichita and Kansas, the Wichita Eagle reported Tuesday.  Roy Wenzl writes that construction work on the innovation center will start construction in 2015 and WSU has hired 12 people to work […] More

Red Hat will announce the winner of the open source technology company’s Innovator of the Year award at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco Tuesday. This is the eighth year of the awards and five nominees were selected across different categories through online voting, Red Hat announced Monday. Categories for the awards include infrastructure; […] More

Buchanan & Edwards sponsored a University of Virginia-hosted forum held Friday through Sunday that sought to promote mobile application development. Students in teams of four participated in a 36-hour programming event to develop mobile apps or platforms from scratch during the UVA 2014 Hackathon, BE announced recently. The UVa 2014 Hackathon had more than 30 […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will exhibit its intelligence and geospatial technologies at a symposium for the defense and homeland security communities Monday through Thursday in Tampa, Florida. The company’s software and hardware technologies are built to help clients gather and process intelligence for geospatial, measurement and signature, laser and cyber applications, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. […] More

Harris Corp. will provide its Soldier Radio Waveform applique systems to the U.S. Army for a tactical network modernization effort under a potential $988 million contract. The company said Friday the vehicular Harris SRW applique systems provide voice, video and data communications using the Falcon III wideband radio and a small form-factor wideband power amplifier. SRW applique systems work to connect soldiers to command […] More

Battelle will hold its third annual practicum-based camp to tackle cybersecurity issues in automobiles July 13 through July 18 in Detroit. The CyberAuto Challenge has teams of students and automotive professionals participate in lectures about secure system design, secure programming, embedded systems, information technology laws and ethics, Battelle announced Monday. “Most kids interested in computers, computer […] More

India’s KL University has adopted HP Converged Cloud Solutions to centralize the school’s data center operations as the university welcomes more students and works to expand its research facility, CIOL reported Monday.  HP will provide Converged Cloud Solutions tools with a data center to the university for the HP CloudSystem Matrix, according to the report. KL […] More

A network security tool built by General Dynamics Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions has been recommended by information research and advisory firm NSS Labs for testing of breach detection systems. NSS Labs rated Fidelis XPS as high in security effectiveness after passing all stability and reliability tests, scoring 100 percent in evasion resistance and having a zero percent false positive rate, […] More

Boeing will house an an F/A-18F Super Hornet flight simulator at its booth during the 2014 Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition, scheduled for April 7 through April 9 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. The company and U.S. Navy officials will also brief the media to offer updates on the […] More

Northrop Grumman on Saturday awarded nearly $50,000 in scholarships to high school students who were members of winning teams in the CyberPatriot VI National Finals Competition. The Air Force Association announced and recognized the teams during the awards banquet at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, the company announced Monday. First place winners each […] More

Verizon Terremark has joined a foundation that works to help accelerate the growth of Linux and collaborative development in the technology industry. Verizon joins The Linux Foundation as a gold member to help further the organization’s work on open cloud and virtualization technologies, the foundation announced Wednesday. “Linux, open cloud and open virtualization technologies support […] More