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Two Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aircraft systems have achieved more than 100,000 flight hours combined for two separate U.S. Air Force and Navy operations. The Air Force flew the Global Hawk fleet for more than 88 percent of the mission’s flight hours while the Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance demonstrator accounted for the remaining hours, Northrop […] More

Unisys has adopted VMware architecture to put out a new solution that integrates the information technology manager’s business tools into one cloud-based workspace. Unisys Desktop as a Service seeks to lower the costs organizations incur from buying software licenses and hardware with its suite of offerings from virtual desktops, related support services, and maintenance and […] More

Red Hat has announced the September release of its cloud management solution suited for private, public and hybrid setups, with upgrades and additional features for various environments. CloudForms 3.1, which helps network administrators jointly manage OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, VMware and Red Hat enterprise virtualization platforms, now includes support for Microsoft System Center’s Virtual Machine Manager, the company […] More

Marius Haas, chief commercial officer and president for enterprise solutions at Dell, said the company has partnered with VMware to deliver a “game-changing” platform for data center network virtualization and security. VMWare NSX, the result of collaboration with Cumulus Networks, seeks to provide a complete, open and automated solution for enterprises and service providers, the two companies […] More

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. has achieved a Defense Department certification to operate the company’s magnetic resonance systems on the U.S. Air Force’s network. Toshiba worked to comply with the Air Force and Defense Health Agency’s guidelines to protect patient health information from malware, viruses and cyber attacks, the company said Monday. “This approval is proof […] More

General Dynamics Information Technology will build, install and operate the state of Massachusetts’ next 911 system that the company will design to integrate geographical information system data into emergency service requests. The company intends to help emergency response personnel both map a caller’s location and then route calls and corresponding information to public answering points through the […] More

A Forrester Consulting study says that three organizations have achieved a lower cost of technology ownership from implementing an Oracle database software in conjunction with a Verizon cloud platform. George Koroneos, an online media manager at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, wrote Thursday the Verizon-commissioned research sought to analyze how subscription-based licensing of Oracle Database on Verizon Cloud […] More

DynCorp International has helped NASA rebuild the WB-57 aircraft as part of the agency’s Aircraft Maintenance Operational Support program in a move to revive the plane 40 years of extended storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. DynCorp said Thursday that the team worked with mechanics, engineers, logisticians and other specialists as they reconstructed the aircraft – now known as N927 – and addressed issues […] 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

The State Department has awarded Michael Baker International a contract to build the U.S. headquarters for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The work will include construction and engineering services in compliance with OBO objectives for U.S. facilities in their host countries, the company said Friday. Baker indicated that the OSCE offices will occupy […] More

Harris Corp. has attained certification from the National Security Agency for the company’s new multi-channel manpack radio system. Harris will be able to deploy Falcon III RF-340M radios up to the Top Secret level of secure voice and data communications under the Type-1 certification, the company said Wednesday. The Army intends to use the multi-channel manpack in its […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has received a new four-year contract from Hong Kong’s civil engineering and development department to continue managing and operating the Public Works Regional Laboratory in Tai Po. The company said Tuesday that it will oversee compliance testing of construction materials for public works projects. Kevin McMahon, Jacobs group vice president, said that the company also provides management and operational support […] More