Industry News

A new market report from Cushman & Wakefield says new deals for office leases in the Northern Virginia area during the most recent quarter was the highest recorded since 2011. The two earlier quarters this year were down so much that year to date leasing has dropped a total of 37 percent from this time last year, according to […] More

Defence IQ has released a new report that forecasts the global airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance market to reach $43 billion by 2020. The report indicates that the airborne ISR market sees strong acquisition worldwide and pegs its current value at nearly $20 billion, Defence IQ said Monday. The market’s growth is also attributed to an increase in civil ISR spending, […] More

BAE Systems has rolled out updates to the Royal Air Force’s fighter aircraft, bringing the fleet into operational service. The company said Friday it upgraded the Typhoon fighter’s computing power, weapons systems integration and sensor suites to help RAF achieve its air-to-air and air-to-surface mission requirements. “We have delivered a capability with all the necessary training and support to […] More

MITRE has sought to help the aviation community collaborate with the Federal Aviation Administration meet the goals of the Next Generation Air Transportation System program, Aviation Today reported Thursday. Juliet Van Wagenen writes that the company’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development has released a report to assess the progress of the program based on the FAA’s implementation plan and midterm concept of operations […] More

The Department of Homeland Security intends to award a $2 million contract to Implant Sciences Corp. to help the agency build systems for identifying explosives at U.S. airport security checkpoints. DHS aims to bolster air travel safety by developing new tools and methods for explosives trace detection, Implant Sciences said Thursday. “Implant Sciences will work […] More

Grant Thornton moved to expand its healthcare portfolio with the addition of Louis Feuerstein as managing director for audit and healthcare chief for Metro New York and New England. Feuerstein has spent over 30 years managing accounting and consulting services in both healthcare and non-profit organizations, Grant Thornton said Thursday. He will be based in Iselin, […] More

Citrix has opened a new 170,000-square-foot office in Raleigh, North Carolina’s warehouse district that will house Citrix Mobile Workspace tools and work to integrate Citrix technologies. The company said it aims to facilitate creativity, productivity, collaboration and employee engagement as well as highlight its vision of a mobility-enabled enterprise. “Raleigh is experiencing tremendous business growth and has firmly established itself as […] More

A Cubic subsidiary that builds game-based training platforms has joined an industry alliance designed to encourage collaboration among technology developers, universities and government agencies. The EDGE Innovation Network offers a collaborative environment for organizations to build new tools to help first responders, warfighters and law enforcement officers perform their missions, Cubic said Wednesday. Bill Rebarick, […] More

Lockheed Martin is developing a small reactor the company believes has potential to generate power through nuclear fusion, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes Tom McGuire, a program lead at Lockheed’s Skunk Works unit, said the organization seeks to attract government, academic and commercial partners for its compact fusion reactor project. Skunk Works conducted a study […] More

Industry has unveiled an Internet of Things reference model to help define the technology, identify its challenges and standardize IoT terminology for developers, chief information officers and IT leaders. The Internet of Things World Forum Steering Committee drafted the framework, unwrapped at this week’s Cisco-hosted IoTWF in Chicago, in a bid to push IoT adoption […] More

Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory will host a research center for the Justice Department‘s National Institute of Justice to test and conduct operational evaluations of non-forensic technologies for state and local law enforcement, corrections agencies, and courts. APL has signed a five-year cooperative agreement with DOJ to house the National Criminal Justice Technology Research, Test and […] More