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BAE Systems and Helsinki-based Patria have agreed to lodge a joint bid for the Land 400 Phase 2 Defence program, Australia’s future combat vehicle project. The anticipated Land 400 platform looks to upgrade the allied nation’s fleet of land armored vehicles to augment its national defense strategy, BAE said Monday. Under their teaming agreement, BAE […] More
DigitalGlobe has released a new series images taken by its WorldView-3 satellite with the Exelis‘ shortwave infrared imager, which works to capture images through atmospheric conditions such as smoke. Exelis said Wednesday that the imaging system — which contains the SWIR, a telescope and sensors – captured the image of a forest fire at the Klamath National Forest in California through thick smoke. “SWIR can remove some […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed an off-road test for its Havoc 8×8 Armored Modular Vehicle at the Butte Mountain Trail of the Nevada Automotive Test Center to validate its design and functions. “Over the course of 10 days of testing, we performed more than 40 test runs up and down the mountain while demonstrating the vehicle’s ride quality […] 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
The U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command will launch a pilot program for reserve units to test a cloud-based Microsoft communication and collaboration system, Nextgov reported Tuesday. SPAWAR estimates adopting the Office 365 cloud email platform would save the organization almost $17 million over five years, according to the report by Bob Brewin. […] 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
MEADS International has demonstrated its multifunction fire control radar at Pratica di Mare Air Base near Rome and at the Freinhause, Germany-based MBDA air defense center. The Medium Extended Air Defense System program completed the performance test for the radar system’s functions to track and jam signals, search in ground clutter and identifying target using kinematic data, Lockheed Martin said […] More
NASA has joined forces with Airware to come up with a framework to manage airspace for unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Sept. 11 that it will rely on its knowledge on aerial information and flight control systems for commercial drones and network of UAS hardware and software providers to help built the traffic management […] More
Exelis has received a contract worth $8 million to supply a new order of night vision systems to the military. The tactical goggles have a scheduled delivery date of late 2014 or early 2015, the company said Sept. 12. According to Exelis, the product uses Generation 3 tube technology that offers gains in the wearer’s […] More
Northrop Grumman has developed a heater kit that may extend the endurance of a marine vessel’s navigational equipment under extreme climates. “Ships operating in the Arctic environments are exposed to a number of unique risks and we recognize the need to ensure that our equipment is capable of functioning effectively under the challenges of polar […] More
