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PV Puvvada: Coalitions, Collaboration Key to Unisys’ Federal Growth Aims

PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal systems business, believesÂ that coalitions or partnerships are important to drive the company’s mission as he talks about his firstÂ few weeks inÂ his current role, FCW reported Thursday. Troy Schneider writes that Puvvada has pointed to collaboration with government and industry partners through membership in groups such as theÂ Professional Services Council […] More

by Anna Forrester March 27, 2015, 1:16 pm
in C4ISR News, Featured, General, News

Iridium’s Matt Desch: Communications Satellite Requires High Startup Costs

Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has shared his thoughts on emerging satellite broadband ventures in an interview with Via Satellite magazine. Mark Holmes writes Desch, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2015, told the publication he believes the plans of SpaceX and OneWeb to build their own satellite Internet networks somewhat reflect Iridium’s approach […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman March 27, 2015, 12:52 pm
in Industry News, News

General Atomics, DOE Lab Report New Findings in Fusion Energy Studies

General Atomics and its partners at the Energy Department‘sÂ Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have reported the latest findings in their joint studies on fusion energy and the controlÂ of edge-localized modes or heat bursts. The company said March 15Â the research team found that tiny magnetic fields work to suppress intense heat bursts by gradually releasing heat near […] More

by Anna Forrester March 27, 2015, 12:01 pm
in C4ISR News, News

Raytheon to Upgrade NASA, NOAA Environmental Satellite; Mark Sargent Comments

RaytheonÂ has relocated its environmental satellite ground sustainment team to Maryland as part of a move to upgrade the existing satellite system of NASA and theÂ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The team that maintains the NASA/NOAA joint polar satellite system common ground system moved from Aurora, Colorado, to Riverdale near NOAA’s satellite operations facility in Suitland […] More

by Jay Clemens March 27, 2015, 10:13 am
in Healthcare IT, News

Emergency Service Providers Pick TCSâ€™ Telemedicine Platform; Jay Whitehurst, Christopher Newton Comment

TeleCommunication Systems has been selected to deploy its VirtuMedix telemedicine systemÂ for the patients of Infinity HealthCare and Emergency Physician Medical Group in the Midwest region. Infinity HealthCare and EPMG physicians will engage patients via computers and mobile devices on VirtuMedix’s cloud-based architecture, TCS said Thursday. Jay Whitehurst, TCS commercial software group president, said the company […] More

by Jay Clemens March 27, 2015, 9:52 am
in News, Products & Service

Battelle Unveils New Tech for Chip Authentication; Larry House Comments

Battelle has developed new authenticationÂ technology that validates integrated circuits used in systems across the aerospace and defense, infrastructure, medical and other sectors and identifies cloned or counterfeit electronic components. The company said March 16 that BarricadeÂ consists of signal acquisition hardware and software that use the chip’s electrical identity signatures and anÂ algorithm that recognizes specific classes […] More

by Anna Forrester March 27, 2015, 7:54 am
in C4ISR News, News

DARPA Seeks Sensor Tech for Unmanned Surface Vessels; Scott Littlefield Comments

The Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyÂ is seekingÂ information on nonradar technology that would help new unmanned surface vessels underÂ theÂ Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program identify objects in its vicinity. DARPA said Thursday the request for information focuses on delivering the capability to track and classify those objects and direct autonomous behavior based on the International […] More

by Anna Forrester March 27, 2015, 7:48 am
in Government Cloud, News

Huddle Cloud Collab Service Gets FedRAMP ATO From USAID; Morten Brogger Comments

HuddleÂ will be able to provide the U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentÂ and other agencies with its U.S. cloud collaboration service after receiving an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company said ThursdayÂ its service works toÂ support cross-agency file sharing, project management and other collaboration activities through a single cloud platform to […] More

by Anna Forrester March 27, 2015, 5:43 am
in News, Products & Service

CACI Awarded $38M Rapid Prototyping, Technology Insertion Work for CERDEC; Ken Asbury Comments

CACI InternationalÂ has been awarded a contract to provide rapid prototyping and technology insertion support to the U.S. Armyâ€™s applied research facility for $38.5 million. The new task order from the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center falls under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract previously awarded to CACI in October 2012 and includes one year base period of […] More

by Elizabeth Leigh March 26, 2015, 1:29 pm
in Industry News, News

Boeing Receives First Signals from Ninth GPS IIF Satellite; Dan Hart Comments

Boeing Co. has received the first signals of its ninth global positioning system IIF satellite from space. Boeing saidÂ the GPS IIF took off Wednesday aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and reached the orbit after more than three hours. Aerojet Rocketdyne supplied the propulsion system […] More

by Jay Clemens March 26, 2015, 11:44 am
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WWT to Resell Polatis’ Optical Switches in Enterprise, Gov’t Sectors

World Wide Technology will offerÂ Polatisâ€™ optical switching systems to customers in the enterpriseÂ and government sectorsÂ under a reseller agreement between both companies. WWT will deploy Polatisâ€™ optical switches with Cisco in a retailerâ€™s multivendor optical network and protect the network in a 16-slot, layer 2/3 multiservice platform, Polatis said Tuesday. Polatis and WWT are also collaborating […] More

by Jay Clemens March 26, 2015, 10:50 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, Featured, General, News

Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Combines Streaming, Cloud, Big Data for Analytics Service

Satellite and geospatial imagery vendors such asÂ DigitalGlobeÂ have worked to utilize streaming technologiesÂ forÂ data mining and analytics operations in environments withÂ high volumes of available data, TechTarget reported Wednesday. Craig Stedman writes that the company has workedÂ toÂ integrate big data, cloud computing and stream processing technologies to deliver real-time analytics. DigitalGlobe’sÂ InsightCloudÂ service, which has gone through beta tests andÂ will be […] More

by Anna Forrester March 26, 2015, 10:41 am