Products & Service

Cisco and Red Hat have introduced a new suite of integrated infrastructure service to deploy cloud environments for customers. Padmasree Warrior, chief technology and strategy officer at Cisco, said Thursday that the companies are also “expanding their relationship and accelerating collaboration around OpenStack, Application Centric Infrastructure and Intercloud.” Cisco’s UCS integrated infrastructure services work to streamline OpenStack-based private cloud operations for customers […] More

DRS Technologies moved closer to contracting its Target Location Designation System with the recent conclusion of the product’s critical design review. The milestone finalizes the engineering and production processes of the TLDS, dubbed the Mojave, designed to speed up and refine target engagement in battlefield operations, DRS said Tuesday. “[The DRS team] is actively working toward […] More

RSA and TeleSign have partnered to add a phone-based verification service to an RSA technology offering that works to help organizations prevent fraudulent transactions on their web portals. Telesign said Wednesday it will provide voice or SMS one-time passwords for users of RSA’s Adaptive Authentication fraud detection platform. Adaptive Authentication is designed to evaluate login […] More

MicroPact has been awarded a contract with the Government Accountability Office to offer the agency’s Forensic Audits and Investigative Service division a product to use as a criminal investigative case management platform. The company said Thursday FAIS will use entellitrak to manage civil and criminal investigations on fraud, waste and abuse of public funds and help standardize its investigative process. “Investigations are complex and rarely move through a […] More

Airbus has partnered with South Africa’s National Aerospace Centre to finance a three-year research project on applying hydrogen fuel cell technology to airplanes. The project, which aims to eventually eliminate carbon dioxide emissions and lessen noise and costs in commercial airline operations, was launched at the Hydrogen South Africa Systems Competence Center at the University of […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding division will use QinetiQ‘s Paramarine Ship and Submersible Design Software for ship design and construction work on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and carry out research and development in submarine systems. QinetiQ said Monday HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding will deploy Paramarine to function as naval architectural software and use Team Paramarine License for multiple users. The license package is designed […] More

Hewlett-Packard has updated its line of ProLiant servers as the company seeks to provide businesses with tools to cope with growing challenges of data center use. The new ProLiant Generation 9 Server offers processing resources that aims to be accessed round the clock from anywhere via a cloud, HP said Thursday. HP sought to acquire target gains […] More

General Dynamics Electric Boat has delivered a new Virginia-class nuclear submarine to the U.S. Navy ahead of its commissioning in October as the first of eight vessels in the Block III group. The North Dakota (SSN-784) attack submarine is the 11th ship of its class that Electric Boat has built with Huntington Ingalls Industries‘  Newport News Shipbuilding subsidiary, General Dynamics said Friday. Kurt Hesch, Electric Boat […] More

Raytheon and the U.S. Army have demonstrated the features of the Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative missile during a Black Dart military exercise, where the missile intercepted an unmanned aerial system and a cruise missile. The company said Thursday the AI3 missile features a “semi-active” seeker and radar system to detect targets and will be used to support the Army’s Indirect Fire Protection Capability Block […] More

Microsoft‘s Marie Huwe has outlined the company’s work with three health and human services organizations to integrate data analytics into case management systems through the deployment of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM suite. Huwe, general manager of marketing connected campaigns and communications for Microsoft Dynamics, writes Aug. 12 that the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities and Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe […] More

Raytheon has handed the initial batch of its Rolling Airframe Missile system to the U.S. Navy under the company’s low rate production contract with the service branch. The company worked to upgrade Block 2 variant’s kinematics, radio frequency receiver and control system, Raytheon said Wednesday. “Along with demonstrating a long-standing international partnership, the RAM program has […] More

Unisys and Rackwise have worked together to introduce a software product designed to help government customers manage their data center assets. The Pennsylvania-based contractor has also been promoting its data center infrastructure management strategy to the federal sector over the past nine months, according to a Wednesday blog post by Kevin McCarthy, group vice president […] More