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U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has said the military service could move the timeline for the expected awarding of the Long Range Strike Bomber contract from August to September, Reuters reported Wednesday. “The main thing is to do it right,” James told Reuters correspondent Andrea Shalal. William LaPlante, Air Force acquisition head, has […] More
A MarketsandMarkets study predicts the machine-to-machine communications and Internet of Things market to be worth $947.29 billion by 2019 due to an increase in the use of Internet-connected devices. The market research firm said Wednesday the M2M and IoT market will experience a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30 percent in the next four years. The […] More
A MarketsandMarkets report projects that unmanned aerial vehicles for commercial use will grow from a $15.22 million business in 2014 to a $1.27 billion market by 2020. The compound annual growth rate for the commercial UAV industry is projected to reach 109.31 percent over the next six years, MarketsandMarkets said Wednesday. The research firm also […] More
A Metals Service Center Institute-commissioned study has found that the lack of cybersecurity guidelines and inadequate training of employees to identify phishing scams and other threats pose risks for most metals firms. “With data breaches happening frequently, our members — and all companies — must be concerned about the safety of their data and honestly […] More
Two information technology security executives believe that computer networks used to create and run smart cities are vulnerable to hacking, Cisco’s The Network reported Wednesday. Jason Deign writes that smart cities’ susceptibility to security threats can be associated with the lack of a single authority to monitor and implement cybersecurity standards and the use of […] More
Steve White, director of security and compliance at CenturyLink, has explained how the company safeguards customer data in collaboration with Vormetric. White wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that CenturyLink adopts a shared responsibility model for customer data. “In CenturyLink’s shared responsibility model, we provide not only account security, network security and physical security, […] More
Bob Fecteau, chief information officer of Science Applications International Corp., has discussed the company’s method to further build up its information technology team in an interview with Forbes published Tuesday. Fecteau told Forbes’ Peter High that SAIC first established a set of principles to promote collaboration and sharing within the IT workforce. “One of the features we find […] More
BAE Systems has partnered with Alsalam Aircraft to establish a maintenance, repair and overhaul services center for Eurofighter Typhoon jets operated by Saudi Arabia’s military, Airforce Technology reported Wednesday. “The work we have completed as a partnership has been critical in working towards our Typhoon in-Kingdom industrialization objectives,” Andy Carr, managing director and CEO of […] More
General Dynamics has changed its Canadian subsidiary’s name to General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada in an effort to emphasize the unit’s technology and service offerings for the country’s military. David Ibbetson, general manager of General Dynamics Mission Systems – Canada, said Tuesday the initiative reflects “our commitment to delivering these capabilities to the soldiers, sailors, airmen, cyber analysts, law […] More
A new Research and Markets report says an increase in demand for wireless and cloud technologies will help drive the healthcare cloud computing market to $12.65 billion in total value by 2020. The report sets the market’s compound annual growth rate at 20.1 percent from 2014 through 2020, Research and Markets said Wednesday. Research and Markets says North America become […] More
ProLog has been awarded a potential five-year, $79.5 million contract to provide logistics services for the U.S. Navy‘s depot-level aircraft maintenance program. The Defense Department said Monday that ProLog will perform majority of the work at the military branch’s Fleet Readiness Center in Jacksonville, Florida, and the rest at other naval aviation depots in the […] More
The Energy Department has issued a solicitation for industry partners to help facilitate the market readiness and commercialization of Sandia National Laboratories’ active authentication technologies. DOE said in a special notice posted June 26 on FedBizOpps that Sandia has worked to develop a Quasi-Physically Unclonable Digital ID that uses data scrambling to authenticate devices and counter digital […] More
