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  • DigitalGlobe Awards MacDonald Dettwiler & Assoc a Satellite Ground Tech Contract
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    DigitalGlobe Awards MacDonald Dettwiler & Assoc a Satellite Ground Tech Contract

    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 Launches Online Marketplace for Surplus DoD Assets; Gregory Owens Comments
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    IronPlanet Launches Online Marketplace for Surplus DoD Assets; Gregory Owens Comments

    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

  • Marillyn Hewson Highlights Lockheed STEM, Collaboration Initiatives
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    Marillyn Hewson Highlights Lockheed STEM, Collaboration Initiatives

    Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, has outlined the company’s planned strategy for technology initiatives as she encouraged collaboration and innovation among Lockheed’s engineering, scientific and technical workforce. The company said Wednesday Hewson also pointed to new education efforts on science, technology, engineering and math during an address at the Lockheed Martin Fellows Conference. “Together, we envision a […] More

  • Boeing Subcontracts Dynetics to Build SLS Hardware, Simulators; David King Comments
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    Boeing Subcontracts Dynetics to Build SLS Hardware, Simulators; David King Comments

    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 Leases Space for SC Research, Tech Hub; Candy Eslinger Comments
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    Boeing Leases Space for SC Research, Tech Hub; Candy Eslinger Comments

    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 Stockholders OK Exelon Merger; Joseph Rigby Comments
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    Pepco Stockholders OK Exelon Merger; Joseph Rigby Comments

    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

  • Joseph Comberiate: APL Builds Model to Track RF Interference From ‘Space Bubbles’
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    Joseph Comberiate: APL Builds Model to Track RF Interference From ‘Space Bubbles’

    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 Pegs Traffic Mgmt Market Growth at 36% Through 2019
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    ReportsnReports Pegs Traffic Mgmt Market Growth at 36% Through 2019

    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

  • Deltek’s Alex Rossino: DISA Sets ENCORE III IT Services Contract Bidding for FY 2015
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: DISA Sets ENCORE III IT Services Contract Bidding for FY 2015

    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

  • IDC: Tech Maturity to Slow Big Data Market Growth Through 2018
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    IDC: Tech Maturity to Slow Big Data Market Growth Through 2018

    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

  • Chris Chalmers: Woolpert to Create 3D Asset Models for Atlanta Transit Agency
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    Chris Chalmers: Woolpert to Create 3D Asset Models for Atlanta Transit Agency

    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 Inks Partnership Deal With Jenoptik Group Arm; Doug Patrick Comments
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    Raytheon Inks Partnership Deal With Jenoptik Group Arm; Doug Patrick Comments

    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