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Northrop Grumman has received Milestone C approval for the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system it built for the U.S. Air Force. The approval from the Milestone Decision Authority is part of the Defense Department‘s acquisition process and paves the way for the Global Hawk to move into the production phase, the company said Tuesday. “The most important date in any […] More
Massachusetts-based cybersecurity firm Cybereason has raised $25 million in Series B capital funds from Spark Capital, Lockheed Martin, CRV and others for the expansion efforts on research and development and sales and marketing. Cybereason said Wednesday the investments also include Lockheed’s integration of the Cybereason Endpoint Detection and Response platform with its cybersecurity portfolio and Spark Capital Founder […] More
Raytheon has entered full-rate production of its Standard Missile-6 rocket for the U.S. Navy at the company’s Redstone Arsenal production facility in Alabama. “Full-rate production allows us to significantly ramp up production and deliver to the U.S. Navy the quantities it needs to further increase operational effectiveness,” Mike Campisi, SM-6 senior program director at Raytheon, said Wednesday. The SM-6 […] More
IBM has partnered with Epic and the Mayo Clinic to help clinicians leverage IBM’s Watson cognitive computing system to access and analyze electronic health records. Epic seeks to integrate the IBM technology into clinical decision support tools that are based on open architecture and designed to offer providers insight from medical literature, IBM said Tuesday. […] More
SAP and Hewlett-Packard have partnered to deliver a joint offering that supports the migration of business applications to SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA via the HP Helion Managed Cloud. SAP said Tuesday the companies will also provide consulting, software, application migration and implementation services to customers that seek to transition workloads into a digital platform. Michael Kleinemeier, member of SAP’s global […] More
Christopher Jones, corporate vice president and president of technical services at Northrop Grumman, has been elected as an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. AIAA said Tuesday Jones and 146 other professionals were cited for their work in the engineering and science of aeronautics and astronautics. Jones holds positions on several boards of directors, including the Air Force […] More
Speakers from government and industry will deliver keynote speeches and head the panel discussions at next month’s 14th Annual Smart Card Alliance Government Conference in Washington, D.C. Smart Card Alliance said Tuesday the June 9-10 conference will tackle cybersecurity issues, advances in mobile identity, biometric systems, personal identity verification credentials, healthcare identification and developments in National Strategy for Trusted […] More
Darren Gale has joined Day & Zimmermann NPS division as vice president of nuclear operations. He will oversee the delivery of nuclear-related services to the D&Z NPS client base, the Pennsylvania-based company said Tuesday. D&Z NPS President Walter Sanders said Gale brings into the role his more than three decades of experience in the nuclear […] More
MapR Technologies has won a Cisco Partner Summit Global award in recognition of its corporate practices, sales strategies and business outcome-driven platforms. The company received the 2015 Solution Innovation Partner of the Year at Cisco’s partner conference held from April 27-30 in Montreal, MapR said Tuesday. “This award is a testament to the significant momentum […] More
Unisys has won the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s 2015 Destination Innovation Award in the safety and security category for the company’s Stealth product. One of four finalists, Stealth received the award after a series of presentations by Unisys representatives to a panel of judges, Unisys said Tuesday. The product is designed to help customers defend against […] More
Ensco Avionics Canada has secured a contract from an Ontario-based company to equip a modernized ground vehicle with an automated driver interface using its commercial-off-the-shelf software development toolkit. The company said Friday its IData Tool Suite can help experts design human machine interface applications that can run on cockpit displays with DO-178C certifications and ground, training and […] More
American Industrial Systems has rolled out new human machine interface systems and touch panel displays that can be attached to pharmacy automation systems and drug dispensing devices. The company expects the integration of Web-based HMI touch panels with automated medication dispensing systems to help nurses, pharmacists and other health workers work toward faster workflows, minimized medication errors, improved drug data […] More
