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A new Research and Markets report has forecast the U.S. and China will be the biggest spenders when it comes to electronic warfare over the next two years. The research firm said Monday it also found that the number of electronic attacks grew during the past 12 months and that jamming devices are commonly used […] More
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has tapped into Cloudera big data technology as part of an initiative to monitor securities trading activities in the United States. Cloudera said Tuesday that FINRA uses a regulatory infrastructure to merge data feeds from more than 4,000 securities companies and stock exchanges each day to uncover market manipulation incidents. The […] More
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have started to construct an S-band ground-based radar system at Kwajalein Atoll on the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Space Fence will replace the Air Force’s legacy space surveillance system to monitor objects in orbit and predict space-based collisions, Lockheed said Monday. The Air Force awarded the $914.7 million Space Fence engineering […] More
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded a five-year contract to a subsidiary of Intergraph for geospatial software and services. Intergraph Government Solutions will deliver its ERDAS product line, GeoMedia and cartographic web services to NGA, IGS said Monday. The subsidiary will also perform related software maintenance under the contract. IGS’ cartographic web services are designed […] More
Engility Holdings will develop simulation-based war games in support of the warfare training for Pacific Theater forces under a $34.9 million contract. The company will work to create scenarios, configure training spaces and simulate world environments through command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems, Engility said Tuesday. The contract contains a one-year base period and four […] More
Northrop Grumman and AeroVironment have been selected to design a new unmanned air system to launch and recover from small ships. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded the contracts for the second phase of its Tern program, a joint effort between DARPA and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research, the agency said Monday. Dan Patt, DARPA […] More
Natoma Technologies Inc. has transitioned the General Services Administration’s electronic project management application to Amazon Web Services’ cloud environment. The company will work to operate and maintain the ePM system on the GovCloud platform under the five-year contract with GSA, Natoma said March 17. “We are excited to successfully achieve an authorization for ePM to […] More
General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has tested the voice and data satellite communications between the U.S. Navy‘s Digital Modular Radios and the U.S. Army‘s AN/PRC-155 Manpack radios with the Mobile User Objective System. The company said Monday it conducted the test at its MUOS test facility in Arizona using satellite communications and ground station simulators. “The success of this test is important because it […] More
Northrop Grumman has performed qualification tests on its radiation-hardened W28C0108 electrically erasable programmable read-only memory device that is used in space to store mission data. The company said Monday the EEPROM semiconductor device has 1-megabit memory, operates across the military temperature range and features latch-up immunity functions for space operations. Qualification tests included heavy ion latch-up tests and dynamic life […] More
Lockheed Martin’s space systems company will use a multi-mission hemispheric radar from RADA Electronic Industries to test a high energy laser weapon system prototype. The radar system contains signal processing technologies and provides multiple missions on each radar platform, RADA said Monday. Zvi Alon, RADA’s CEO, said the MHR is designed “for use with systems that counter rockets […] More
Marianne Brown, formerly chief operating officer of SunGard Financial Systems, has been elected to the board of directors of Northrop Grumman. She joined SunGard, a financial software and information technology services provider, in February 2014 after her role as CEO and president of Omgeo, Northrop said Thursday. Wes Bush, chairman, CEO and president of Northrop, […] More
Mark Redford has been promoted to director of business development at Constellation West, an information technology services provider to the U.S. government sector. He will oversee business development, strategic planning, capture and proposal, program management, internal and external coordination and pipeline development functions in his new position, the company said Tuesday. “His experience and commitment have […] More
