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Raytheon has been awarded a $130 million contract to help the Massachusetts Department of Transportation replace the state’s cash tolling systems with an electronic platform. The company and its partners will build and install an All Electronic Tolling System designed to allow vehicles with EZ-Pass tags to drive through Massachusetts toll stations without stopping, Raytheon said […] More
SoftLayer has announced the opening of a new data center in Toronto as part of the IBM cloud company’s $1.2 billion investment to expand its presence worldwide. According to SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby, there is a need to provide a local facility for the growing number of Canadian enterprises that require cloud service solutions. “We […] More
A global survey commissioned by SAP indicates that one-third of companies across different sectors use data to track market trends and identify new business prospects. SAP polled 743 business and information technology professionals worldwide and nearly 50 percent said that data is valuable for their companies’ decision-making process, SAP said Monday. “The best performing companies […] More
General Dynamics Electric Boat has completed the first rounds of sea trials for the U.S. Navy‘s Virginia-class North Dakota Block III submarine ahead of a scheduled delivery by the end of August, Defense News reported Monday. Christopher Cavas reports that the North Dakota passed Alpha trials to evaluate its submergence, speed and propulsion status. North Dakota is undergoing a series […] More
A new MarketsandMarkets report forecasts the three-dimensional sensor market to be worth $3.4 billion by 2020 and achieve a compound annual growth rate of 23.43 percent over the next six years. The market research and consulting firm said Monday that it attributes the potential growth to continued research and development, supply chain and distribution improvements, and potential applications in the consumer, media […] More
Boeing has obtained a certification from the Federal Aviation Administration for the company’s reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft. The company is now allowed to deliver the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System Risk Reduction Prototype to global customers, Boeing said Tuesday. “ERRP is a high-end signals intelligence aircraft that delivers near-real-time SIGINT to the warfighter, a capability in […] More
BAE Systems will take over work on the Minuteman III Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile following the recent completion of the transition to the $534 million ICBM integration support contract from the U.S. Air Force. The company said Tuesday it has been working with the service and other partners over the course of the nine-month transition process. The contract was awarded […] More
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has awarded Northrop Grumman a $3 million contract to supply the navigational system for NASA’s Solar Probe Plus satellite. Northrop will build the Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit to help the robotic shuttle stay on its flight path using the company’s hemispherical resonator gyro technology, Northrop said Tuesday. Bob Mehltretter, vice president for […] More
Orbital Sciences has received a contract to manufacture a HYLAS 4 satellite for Avanti Communications Group, which seeks to connect customers in existing and new markets to Ka-band broadband communications services. Orbital Sciences said Tuesday HYLAS 4 is based on its GEOStar-3 platform, will have a capacity of up to 28 gigahertz and feature 66 fixed and four steerable beams. David Williams, CEO […] More
The U.S. Defense Department has approved an Appian mobile business process management platform that works to manage enterprise functions and communications. Appian’s BPM tool is now available on a Defense Information Systems Agency-operated mobile application store for DoD organizations, Appian said Monday. “Our participation in DOD MAS provides all branches the ability to take advantage […] More
IBM has received a U.S. patent for a new system the company built to help enterprises manage geographically dispersed cloud data in accordance with the law. The company said Friday it designed the cloud management technique for organizations to find a location or change the place where they keep their business data. Sandeep Ramesh Patil, an IBM […] More
A subsidiary of DynCorp International in Australia has signed a potential 10-year, $100 million contract to provide the country’s defense department with nationwide project delivery and management support. Dyn-Australia was tasked to implement and manage facility projects at all bases of the Australian defense forces, the company said Monday. “We are excited to expand our business in Australia with […] More
