Products & Service

Harris Corp. has fully installed and integrated the computer hardware for the ground segment of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite–R series. The company said Wednesday the hardware makes up the ground segment’s operational system, which works to help GOES-R satellites perform their weather detection and tracking mission. “System testing can be completed now that the hardware is […] More

Cobham, International Communications Group, Iridium Communications, L-3 Communications and Rockwell Collins have partnered to develop and distribute products that are built to work with Iridium’s new broadband service. The industry partners will design and manufacture broadband terminals to be compatible with Iridium Certus, Iridium said Thursday. Iridium expects the products from its partners to be available in late 2016 after the release of […] More

DigitalGlobe has rolled out 30-centimeter satellite imagery products for government and industrial customers. The high-resolution aerial photos are captured through DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite and intended to help civil government, defense, intelligence, energy, mining and global development organizations, DigitalGlobe said Wednesday. “Today marks a significant milestone for our customers, who will now benefit from a level […] More

Exelis has inked a deal with Saab to develop and supply pneumatic missile eject launcher pylons for installation in Saab’s fighter aircraft. The launcher will work to eject the Meteor and AIM-120 medium-range air-to-air missile from the fuselage underside of Saab’s Gripen E jet, Exelis said Tuesday. Exelis will produce an initial batch of 214 […] More

Raytheon and Boeing have teamed up to develop a C5I (command, control, communications, computers, cyber and intelligence) system for the Royal Saudi Air Force in a move to help the service modernize its command and control platform. ThalesRaytheonSystems, a joint venture between Raytheon and Thales, and Raytheon Atheeb Systems, Raytheon and Atheeb Group’s joint venture […] More

Exelis has debuted the first nighttime imagery taken with the CorvusEye 1500 airborne system that is intended for use in commercial and government surveillance applications. The wide-area airborne system captured images depicting cars and pedestrians in downtown Rochester from an altitude of 15,000 feet using a mid-wave infrared sensor, Exelis said Monday. Dwight Greenlee, Exelis […] More

CACI International has landed prime position on a potential $40.7 million contract to provide operations and maintenance support for the U.S. Navy‘s manpower, personnel, training and education programs. The company said Monday it can compete for up to $23 million of analysis, consulting and modeling work in support of the deputy chief of naval operations for MPTE (N1). Ken Asbury, […] More

TeleCommunication Systems has agreed to offer the satellite products and services of its channel partner O3b Networks to TCS’ government clients via the GSA IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. TCS said Monday O3b’s medium Earth-orbit constellation provides broadband satellite services with up to 1.6 Gbps data throughput and LTE support. O3b’s satellite products include satellite terminals, antennas, gateway equipment and block upconverters, while services include field service […] More

Exelis has delivered the cross-track infrared sounder to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for installation in the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 spacecraft. The sounder is designed to produce atmospheric temperature and moisture data for weather and climate prediction, Exelis said Friday. “This advanced hyperspectral technology is providing improvements to numerical weather prediction models,” said […] More

Raytheon has awarded Ducommun Inc. contracts totaling $7.3 million to produce additional interconnect and electronic assemblies for the U.S. Navy‘s Tomahawk cruise missile. The company will build the assemblies at facilities in Missouri and Arkansas through 2016,  Ducommun said Thursday. “Ducommun is honored to continue providing support for the Tomahawk program going forward,” said Anthony Reardon, […] More

Carpathia has announced a beta release of the company’s infrastructure-as-a-service offering that seeks to help providers comply with federal health information technology regulations. The Healthcare Community Cloud Service is designed for healthcare organizations to manage cloud computing and storage applications while adhering to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and Health Information Technology for […] More

Red Hat has updated its infrastructure-as-a-service offering for enterprise businesses with a new iteration of the Linux OpenStack platform intended to help clients deploy cloud services. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, developed based on the OpenStack Juno release, incorporates fresh intuitive graphical installer and management tools, Red Hat said Tuesday. Red Hat intends for […] More