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CAE has sold 48 Level D full-flight simulators to customers in North America, Europe and India during the company’s 2014 fiscal year, which ended on March 31.. The company has also closed $68.5 million in simulator sales agreements at list prices to Southwest Airlines, Lufthansa Flight Training and a joint venture between CAE and InterGlobe, […] More
Cybersecurity has taken a higher place on the agendas of federal chief information officers in 2014 against a backdrop of emerging technologies, threat landscapes and IT workforce rosters, the Washington Post reported Monday. Derek Johnson of Deltek writes that a push from state and local governments to update their security was observed in the aftermath […] More
Greg Day, FireEye vice president and chief technology officer, said knowing the source of a cyberattack, what type of data is being compromised and how the security threat landscape is evolving over time are keys to developing an effective solution against data theft. “Was it somebody who was state sponsored, was it somebody who is maybe a […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed a series of tests on the Orion spacecraft’s avionics system, which is built to activate and send commands to at least 20 systems on the crew module during flight and re-entry. The company Orion’s thermal control, guidance and navigation, environmental control life support and other systems and analyzed the command signal, system responses […] More
Level 3 Communications has introduced a cloud-based broadcast and content delivery system the company built to help customers transfer and store video files worldwide. The Video Cloud Services technology is combined with Level 3’s content delivery, video broadcast and cloud storage systems for users to distribute large amounts of video content and data on a global […] More
Lockheed Martin will partner with Neya Systems to integrate a mission planning and management system with a military unmanned aerial vehicle that carries out casualty evacuation and cargo resupply missions in Afghanistan. Neya Systems said Monday the companies will install VERTI on the K-MAX delivery drone as part of a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research program. Dr. Jeffrey Poulin, a […] More
Data from consulting firm Altman Weil shows that a record 88 law firms entered into merger deals in 2013, the Washington Post reported Monday. Catherin Ho writes the consultant firm released statistics last week showing that 22 industry merger and acquisition deals were announced in the first quarter of 2014 and 82 percent of the […] More
Teradata has released a new analytics tool that the company built to both utilize both traditional data warehousing technology and big data systems, ZDNet reported Monday. Larry Dignan writes QueryGrid was released at the Teradata Universe conference in Prague, Czech Republic. Scott Gnau, president of Teradata Labs, said customers want insights from data regardless of where […] More
John Thomas joined Leidos as the Reston, Va.-based national security, health and engineering contractor’s chief strategic officer after Leidos’ 2013 separation from the legacy SAIC organization, where he most recently led close-to-13,000 analysts, scientists, engineers, and business professionals as acting president of SAIC’s National Security Sector. Thomas joined SAIC as an executive focused on military […] More
The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman plan to carry out the first set of ship-based flights of the MQ-8C Fire Scout this summer, said George Vardoulakis, Northrop vice president of medium range tactical systems. “Land-based flight tests of the system are progressing well and… We expect the MQ-8C Fire Scout will be ready for operations by year […] More
Microsoft and Xamarin have partnered to establish a technology consortium that aims to help developers build computing applications based on Microsoft’s .NET programming framework. The .NET Foundation offers open source developers access to Microsoft’s portfolio of Roslyn and ASP.NET application programming interfaces, Xamarin said Thursday. Miguel de Icaza, co-founder and chief technology officer of Xamarin, […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s mission systems and training unit will open a new facility later this year in Moorestown, N.J. to develop surface warfare combat systems, Seapower Magazine reported Friday. Richard Burgess writes that Lockheed intends to focus on human-machine interfaces at the $3.5 million Surface Navy Innovation Center. Jim Sheridan, director of Aegis U.S. programs at […] More
