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DigitalGlobe has awarded MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates a contract to develop a ground infrastructure for an international user of DigitalGlobe’s Earth observation satellites. MDA said Tuesday the ground station platform will work to help the customer access data and imagery from the WorldView constellation. The ground station will be using an MDA multi-satellite architecture, according […] More

IronPlanet has unveiled an online marketplace for users to buy and sell surplus Defense Department assets. The first online auction of surplus trucks, trailers, generators, wheel loaders, cranes, crawler tractors and other government equipment on the GovPlanet marketplace is scheduled for Nov. 19, IronPlanet said Wednesday. “GovPlanet is a compelling new platform for fast and efficient disposal of government surplus equipment […] More

Boeing has chosen aerospace engineering firm Dynetics to provide a thrust vector control exhaust gas heat exchanger and three structural simulators for the NASA Space Launch System program. Dynetics said Wednesday it will manufacture the flight hardware and simulation platforms for the SLS core stage at its Huntsville, Alabama facility, and then deliver the systems […] More

Boeing has leased office and laboratory space in North Charleston, South Carolina for a planned research and technology center the company plans to open within its current quarter, the Charleston Regional Business Journal reported Tuesday. Liz Segrist writes that the future Boeing Research & Technology – South Carolina facility covers an area of 100,000 square feet […] More

Pepco Holdings‘ stockholders have approved the power provider’s proposed merger with Exelon Corp. The merger would combine Pepco Holdings’ Atlantic City Electric, Delmarva Power and Pepco electric and gas utilities and Exelon’s BGE, ComEd and PECO utilities,  Exelon said Tuesday. Exelon said the transaction is scheduled to complete in the second or third quarter of its 2015 fiscal year and […] More

Phycisists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have developed a computer model to predict how radio interference source in the atmosphere could affect communications. APL physicists designed the model to detect the movement of “space bubbles” after they form and predict the plasma bubble’s course by collecting data from satellite-based systems and using wind models, Johns Hopkins APL […] More

ReportsnReports has released a new report that predicts the global traffic management market will reach $16.89 billion in value by 2019 from the $3.56 billion recorded in 2014, an increase of 36.5 percent. The report also contains analysis of market opportunity and technology adoption across cloud services, traffic management services and intelligent transport system, ReportsnReports said Monday. ReportsnReports cites North […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency will begin the process for awarding contracts under the third-generation ENCORE information technology services vehicle in fiscal 2015, Deltek‘s Alex Rossino reported Tuesday. Rossino, a Deltek principal research analyst, estimates that defense agencies invested approximately $5.8 billion in IT offerings through the second ENCORE iteration. His analysis of the ENCORE […] More

International Data Corp. projects a 26.4 percent compound annual growth rate for the big data technology and services market to $41.5 billion in value by 2018 and sees a slower pace of growth for certain individual segments. The company said Sept. 15 that its “Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2014-2018 Forecast” report forecasts big data to continue to lead growth in the […] More

Woolpert has won a potential 10-year contract to provide geospatial surveying and three-dimensional modeling services to the Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Atlanta’s public transit agency wants the company to produce 3D models of the agency’s existing facilities, topography, utilities and 48-mile rail line, Woolpert said Sept. 15. The company says it will leverage a […] More

Raytheon has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of German firm Jenoptik Group for cooperation in air defense and associated exporting business opportunities in Germany and around the world. Raytheon said Monday it will work with Jenoptik’s Lechmotoren, a defense and civil systems company, to explore domestic and international opportunities that leverage technology such as the Jenoptik Patriot Hybrid Power Supply. […] More