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Lockheed Martin is set to perform on-orbit testing on the third Mobile User Objective System satellite built for the U.S. Navy following the Jan. 20 launch of the satellite. The MUOS-3 took off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and responded to commands from Lockheed’s team at the Point Mugu, California-based Naval satellite […] More
Software AG predicts that the digital energy industry will see increased merger activity and adoption of Internet of Things technologies in 2015 due to continually changing oil prices. “Oil prices will be the overriding concern next year and may dictate everything we see going forward,” Donald Fisher, senior director of energy solutions at Software AG, said Wednesday. He […] More
Boeing has appointed Bryan Scott to oversee the company’s business in San Antonio and succeed Mike Emmelhainz as the latter returns to Oklahoma City to lead operations ahead of Steve Goo’s retirement. The company said Wednesday Scott and Emmelhainz will assume their new roles at the end of January and report to Scott Strode, vice president and general manager of […] More
Charles Davis, a retired lieutenant general from the U.S. Air Force, has joined Seabury Advisory Group as executive vice president of the company’s aerospace and defense consulting business. He will report directly to President and CEO Christopher Kubasik and work to help the company expand operations and offerings in the A&D market in his new […] More
Casey Coleman, client executive vice president at AT&T‘s government solutions business, forecasts industry to drive an interlinking of social, mobile, analytics and cloud systems in 2015, she told FCW in an interview published Tuesday. She told interviewer Colby Hochmuth that technological convergence could help federal agencies to better manage workloads with any device. Coleman also […] More
A new Research and Markets report predicts an increase in adoption of analytics in the satellite-based Earth observation services market in the U.S. The market is expected to grow at a 7.65 percent compound annual rate between 2015 and 2019, Research and Markets said Tuesday. The report also attributes the overall market growth to what […] More
The European Space Agency has incorporated Red Hat’s Linux platform into the agency’s private cloud infrastructure that is intended to provide information technology services to multiple users. The ESA cloud infrastructure is developed based on VCE systems and a blade x86 architecture, Red Hat said Tuesday. Gianni Anguilletti, Red Hat’s country manager in Italy, said […] More
MarketsandMarkets has projected the global electronic warfare market will expand from $17.7 billion in 2014 at a 5.37 compound annual growth rate to reach $24.3 billion by 2020. The research firm said Friday modern EW systems are built with digital and signal processing technology and that smaller EW platforms for unmanned aerial vehicles and patrol […] More
Parsons has won a 10-year contract to upgrade the traffic signal control system of the city of Mississauga in Ontario, Canada, with the Advanced Transportation Management System platform and provide associated services, software and hardware. The company said Monday it will leverage the transportation capabilities of its Delcan subsidiary as it designs, develops, installs and tests ATMS as the program’s prime contractor. […] More
Inmarsat Government — a wholly-owned subsidiary of the British satellite services firm — and Globecomm Systems have partnered to provide U.S. government customers with the Global Xpress Ka-band data service as part of a subscription services agreement. Inmarsat Government said Tuesday it designed Global Xpress to interoperate with the military’s Wideband Global Satellite system. “We are pleased to add Global Xpress to our service […] More
A new Research and Markets report predicts worldwide demand for avionics equipment will grow as military and defense agencies invest more on fighter aircraft. The global military and defense avionic systems market is projected to enjoy a 9.63 percent compound annual growth rate from 2013 to 2018, the research firm said Friday. ARINC, BAE Systems, […] More
DigitalGlobe has partnered with a scientific consortium on a two-year international project that aims to deliver space-based data for small farm operators to monitor and predict crop yields. The company said Tuesday it uses satellite imagery to help smallholders generate output projections, as well as to offer evidence-based strategies to the agricultural sector in developing […] More
