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General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has used a three-megajoule railgun system to fire three guidance electronics unit-equipped hypersonic projectiles during a test series at the U.S. Army‘s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The company said Wednesday that the Blitzer railgun fired the projectiles at launch accelerations at a speed more than 30,000 times faster than gravity. The GEU […] More
Cubic‘s global defense segment plans to recruit new employees to support the development of learning products and services for the U.S. Navy at a company facility in Orlando, Florida. The company said Wednesday it secured more than $12 million in contract funds to create game-based courseware for the service branch’s littoral combat ships. Cubic currently employs more than 235 personnel at its Orlando […] More
Raytheon has purchased an enterprise computing platform from Unisys to develop new software for use in the former’s Patriot air and missile defense system. Unisys said Monday its ClearPath Forward technology will be integrated into the Global Patriot Solutions program as Raytheon aims to increase the performance of its weapons system offerings. “We are excited to continue supporting a program that is […] More
Robert Youngjohns, a senior adviser at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has joined Blueprint‘s board of directors. The Toronto, Canada-based software company said Thursday that Youngjohns brings experience in various leadership roles from his time leading the information technology industry. “Robert is a true pioneer and trailblazer in the world of software and I am very […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle have unveiled the winners of a global crowdsourcing competition that sought data science methods to develop lung cancer detection formulas and technologies. The third annual Data Science Bowl drew nearly 10,000 participants who submitted algorithms designed to help clinicians detect lung cancer, Booz Allen said Tuesday. The National Cancer Institute provided access to a publicly-available data set of […] More
The U.S. Navy has conducted flight tests of the Raytheon-built Standard Missile-6 weapon system to validate whether the missile is ready to obtain full operational capability. Raytheon said Thursday four SM-6 missiles were launched throughout the “graduation” tests to engage shore-launched, sub- or supersonic targets. Mike Campisi, Raytheon SM-6 senior program director, said the Navy started to deploy SM-6s four years ago but the […] More
Qafis Biometric Technology and Assured Enterprises have teamed up to provide digital security platforms and services to organizations in both public and private sectors. Qafis CEO Edwin Nicolaas said in a statement released Thursday the company will integrate its Biometric Security Socket Layer and identity authentication platforms with Assured Enterprises’ code scanning and cybersecurity assessment tools. […] More
Vencore’s research arm has won a potential four-year, $10.3 million contract to research and develop software platforms in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Dispersed Computing program. The DCOMP program seeks to create software instantiations of protocol stacks and algorithms to build up the performance of networks and applications through the use of dispersed computing […] More
NASA has partnered with Amazon Web Services to present a live feed from approximately 250 miles above Earth as part of a panel discussion that will be aired April 26 at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, Variety reported Tuesday. Todd Spangler writes AWS will use its Elemental software, currently used on board the International Space […] More
Northrop Grumman has won a $7.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a widely-applicable streaming and static parallel-graph processing software. The Defense Department said Wednesday Northrop will identify and create static and streaming graph analytics to address five types of problem areas, anomaly detection, domain specific search, dependency mapping, N-x contingency analysis and causal modeling […] More
The U.S. Navy has conducted formal laboratory and initial flight tests on updated software for a Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aerial system. Northrop said Tuesday the new MQ-4C Triton software package modernized the platform’s traffic alert and collision avoidance system, multi-aircraft control technology and multifunction active sensor radar modes. The Navy aims to achieve early operational capability status for the […] More
Red Hat has presented Science Applications International Corp. with the 2016 Public Sector System Integrator Partner of the Year for SAIC’s efforts to integrate open-source Red Hat technologies for government clients. SAIC said Tuesday that Red Hat’s open-source offerings support enterprise information technology platforms designed to help federal agency customers address business and infrastructure challenges. “Our relationship with Red Hat is an […] More
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