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Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force have completed flight test of an anti-radiation missile designed to help reduce fratricide risks. The updated High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile was fired from an F-16 aircraft to target an emitter outside an exclusion zone that also contained another radiating emitter, Raytheon said Friday. The HARM control section modification engaged the right emitter by […] More
John Slye, an advisory research analyst at Deltek, projects USAID and the State Department to respectively spend 38 percent and 35 percent of their IT contracting budgets in September as the fiscal year closes. Slye writes Thursday that the above two agencies lead the 25 federal organizations that are likely to spend a total of $17.3 billion on IT […] More
In-Q-Tel has invested an undisclosed amount in technology startup Newlans to help the latter company further develop radio frequency modules for wireless communication devices. “The Newlans approach represents a step forward in analog signal processing technology,†Megan Anderson, vice president of IQT’s field deployable technologies practice, said Thursday. Anderson added the company sees Newlans-designed tunable […] More
Boeing has evaluated the safety features of a commercial spacecraft the company is building for NASA‘s human flight missions into low-Earth orbit. The company said Thursday it conducted the CST-100 hazard analysis to identify possible life-threating risks and ensure that capsule design is safe. CST-100 would transport up to seven astronauts and cargo to the […] More
The Transaction Processing Performance Council has rolled out a new benchmarking tool to cater to big data systems that Cisco’s Raghunath Nambiar indicated have become a “critical†element of a company’s information technology platform. TPCx-HS aims to generate vendor-neutral reports on hardware and software performance, including metrics for price and energy consumption, TPC said Monday. […] More
A recent Frost & Sullivan report on defense markets projects military spending across 10 selected countries to reach $3.41 trillion by 2022 due to military reorganization, increased threat perceptions, penetrable borders and territorial disputes. The study covers defense budgets in Algeria, Brazil, Chile, India, Indonesia, Japan, Oman, Poland, Russia and the United Arab Emirates, the firm said Wednesday. […] More
The governments of Colorado and West Virginia have adopted a CGI enterprise resource planning system to automate purchasing and accounting processes. CGI said Thursday the new Colorado Operations Resource Engine uses the firm’s Advantage ERP technology and is built to help the state government manage budgeting and procurement functions. The company also helped West Virginia’s […] More
Level 3 Communications has opened a data center in Herndon, Virginia, to deliver cloud computing and managed information technology services to government and other enterprise clients. The Herndon facility is the newest addition to the company’s Premier Elite global infrastructure network and features power, cooling, security and connectivity systems, Level 3 said Thursday. Premier Elite […] More
Kirk Kern, chief technology officer for cloud at NetApp‘s U.S. public sector practice, has outlined five strategies that federal agencies can adopt when restructuring their IT systems for a cloud environment, FCW reported Wednesday. According to Kern, agencies are increasingly turning to the cloud and other IT re-architecture solutions to address concerns with operational costs, […] More
A-T Solutions is participating at Fed Summits‘ 2014 Federal Mobile Computing Summit this week in Washington, where CEO Dennis Kelly said the company will unveil its new mobile data collection tools. The company said Wednesday it will showcase the new Data Collection Toolkit and release the “Top Three Ways In-Field Data Collection Helps Achieve Urgent Objectives” white paper. A-T Solutions wrote […] More
Andrew Tyler, CEO of Northrop Grumman‘s businesses in the U.K. and Europe, said that three European nations are interested in buying Global Hawk surveillance drones from the company, Reuters reported Wednesday. “At the moment I would say that the hottest three (potential European buyers) are Germany, U.K. and Norway, in the sense that we’ve got […] More
Alasdair Cathcart, Bechtel LNG general manager, said two liquefied natural gas storage tanks on Curtis Island in northeastern Australia have completed up to four weeks of tests for strength and leaks. “The LNG tanks are not only one of the most visible and complex parts of these plants, they are also among the most critical […] More
