Products & Service

BAE Systems has contracted the Hydro Group underwater cables supplier to deliver a hull penetrator tool for the U.K. navy’s new fleet of submarines for $3.3 million. Work on the development, manufacture and validation of the through-hull connectors will be done in Scotland over a two-year period, Hydro Group said Friday. BAE will install the underwater connection […] More

McKinney administrators in Texas have adopted Dell’s suite of database management and information technology monitoring systems as part of efforts to help modernize the city’s municipal services. The suite includes Foglight to monitor application performance, Toad Data Modeler to allow disparate databases to communicate with and understand one another, two PowerEdge M1000e enclosures for the […] More

Raytheon seeks to address operational efficiency and product security at its New Mexico facilities with the construction of of a new $4.4-million warehouse on the Navajo Nation semi-autonomous territory near Farmington. The company broke ground on the 30,000-square-foot facility this week and construction is scheduled for six months to start in December 2014, Raytheon said Tuesday. “Raytheon values its longstanding relationship with […] More

MarkLogic and Tableau Software have forged a partnership, under which Tableau will offer MarkLogic’s NoSQL connector for organizations to analyze data. The companies seek to help business analysts gain insight into business performance through a Tableau-connected MarkLogic enterprise NoSQL database, MarkLogic said Tuesday. “Through the partnership with Tableau, we are helping businesses find the information that matters, so that it can be visualized and […] More

QinetiQ has received a $2.9 million contract to build a baffle for the European Space Agency‘s Airbus-built Euclid space telescope. The baffle is a black cylindrical structure and is built to prevent stray light from entering into the telescope’s optics, QinetiQ said Sept. 30. ESA led the development of the Euclid mission with Thales Alenia Space Turin in an effort to probe the “dark energy” that some […] More

General Dynamics is set to begin the low-rate initial production phase under a contract to build ground mobility vehicles for the U.S. Special Operations Command. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems is contracted to build 72 vehicles through 2016 under the Ground Mobility Vehicle 1.1 program, which the company won in August 2013, General Dynamics said Tuesday. “We look forward to continuing this strong partnership […] More

FireEye has unveiled a new cybersecurity platform that aims to help enterprise users expedite the process of analyzing security incidents. The Investigation Analysis System is intended to operate as a standalone appliance or with the company’s forensics technology that works to extract metadata and monitor network traffic, FireEye said Monday. The company designed the platform […] More

A Lockheed Martin division will provide European Aviation with jet engine maintenance, repair and overhaul services both on-site and at facilities in Canada and the U.S. under a four-year exclusive contract. Lockheed Martin Commercial Engine Solutions will perform work on 60 CFM56-3 turbofan engines at a European Aviation facility and LMCES sites in Montreal and San Antonio, the company said Tuesday. “We are delighted […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group will provide design management services for a two-lane tunnel construction project between Virginia Beach and the Delmarva Peninsula under a contract with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission. The company said Tuesday it will lead project development work for the future 23-mile tunnel and associated infrastructure, manage procurement activities and assist in the review of technical […] More

Deloitte will set up a crisis management center to consolidate its work to help clients prepare for and respond to threats, whether manmade or natural. The Deloitte Center for Crisis Management will rely on its global network of services to create crisis simulations and crisis plans for all types of disruptions economic, technological, financial or political, […] More

Charles River Analytics has developed a programming language that is built to teach a machine to adapt its behavior to changing experiences and unpredictable data sets. The company presented the Automated Probabilistic Programming Representation and Inference Languages as a case study to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Charles River said Monday. In March 2014, DARPA awarded a$5.7 […] More

MarkLogic has tasked Vantage Data Centers to provide data center tools to support operations and potential company growth through a lease of data center capacity at Vantage’s campus in Santa Clara, California. “MarkLogic was looking for a scalable infrastructure solution to deliver massive, flexible capacity and the agility to support the rapid growth of its enterprise customer base,” Sureel Choksi, […] More