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  • Red Hat: Enterprises Should Virtualize IT to Facilitate Cost, Operating Efficiencies
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    Red Hat: Enterprises Should Virtualize IT to Facilitate Cost, Operating Efficiencies

    Red Hat is urging enterprises to adopt virtualization for their IT infrastructures and data centers to foster operational and cost efficiencies. In an infographic posted Monday on the Red Hat website, the company illustrates the path to innovation, from modernizing the data center, to standardizing operations and to virtualizing IT resources, in order to realize positive business […] More

  • BAE Scientists Eye 2014 Deployment for Self-Healing Parts in Aircraft Tech Family
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    BAE Scientists Eye 2014 Deployment for Self-Healing Parts in Aircraft Tech Family

    Scientists and engineers at BAE Systems have revealed a series of aircraft technologies the company aims to have deployed by 2040. The team is working on technologies ranging from 3D printers and self-healing vehicle parts, to long-range multi-stage aircraft and directed energy weapons that could search and destroy missiles at the speed of light. said that the company’s experts […] More

  • Cobham Unveils New Satcom Product Catalog
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    Cobham Unveils New Satcom Product Catalog

    Cobham today announced that it has made its Satcom product catalog available and that the portfolio includes a new set of systems, custom configurations and communication arrays. The catalog covers a wide range of options used in the standardized DIAMOND range of high-performance feed chains that are applied to more than 1,500 reflector antenna systems, available in carbon fiber […] More

  • Dan Allen: Serco Inc. Adds Parking, Traffic Control Support Work in LA Suburb
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    Dan Allen: Serco Inc. Adds Parking, Traffic Control Support Work in LA Suburb

    Serco Inc., the Britain-based contractor’s North American subsidiary, has won a 10-year, $25 million contract to provide parking enforcement services and manage parking meter and traffic control operations in Inglewood, California. The company said Monday it will support daily traffic, parking, dispatch and customer services in the Los Angeles suburb as well as monitor scofflaws using license plate recognition technology. […] More

  • Subsystem Technologies to Support Army’s Armament R&D Center; Indra Nayee Comments
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    Subsystem Technologies to Support Army’s Armament R&D Center; Indra Nayee Comments

    The U.S. Army‘s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center has selected Subsystem Technologies to provide support services for the towed artillery digitization program under a $4.4 million task order. The company said Monday that it will support engineering, technical, design and development of hardware and software and testing for the towed artillery weapons systems’ Digital Fire Control Systems. Indra Nayee, […] More

  • L-3 Division to Help Maintain Navy Ship Control Systems; Jon Miller Comments
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    L-3 Division to Help Maintain Navy Ship Control Systems; Jon Miller Comments

    An L-3 Communications division has been awarded a potential five-year, $2.8 million contract to help the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command maintain bridge and machinery control products on MSC vessels. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers technical and engineering support work on board the T-AO 187/199-class and other MSC vessels, L-3 Henschel said Wednesday. “We recognize our customers’ growing need […] More

  • Leidos Building Autonomous Unmanned Vessel to Track Submarines; John Fratamico Comments
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    Leidos Building Autonomous Unmanned Vessel to Track Submarines; John Fratamico Comments

    Leidos is building an Autonomous Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel for long-term monitoring of submarines as part of an anti-submarine warfare program by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. ACTUV will be equipped with sensors, electro-optics and radars, as well as sensor control, navigation and status reporting features to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, Leidos said Monday. “It would […] More

  • Report: MBDA, Mitsubishi Electric Explore Partnership to Develop F-35 Missiles
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    Report: MBDA, Mitsubishi Electric Explore Partnership to Develop F-35 Missiles

    MBDA and Mitsubishi Electric are undertaking a preliminary deal to develop midrange missiles for the F-35 fighter jets as part of the Japanese government’s efforts to establish international defense procurement partnerships, Reuters reported Thursday. Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo report the deal would be the first to involve using Japanese-built parts for missile exports as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration continues […] More

  • James Rowntree: CH2M HILL Lands Railway Modernization Project in Poland
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    James Rowntree: CH2M HILL Lands Railway Modernization Project in Poland

    CH2M HILL has secured a rail modernization contract to help redesign a railway line that stretches between Wegliniec to Gorlitz in Poland, the construction and engineering firm said Wednesday. Polish rail infrastructure company PKP PLK awarded the estimated $538,000 contract to CH2M HILL for modernization work on the track, which runs from the edge of Poland to the […] More

  • MBDA CEO Antoine Bouvier Cuts the Ribbon on French Munitions Demilitarization Facility
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    MBDA CEO Antoine Bouvier Cuts the Ribbon on French Munitions Demilitarization Facility

    MBDA CEO Antoine Bouvier, in the presence of civilians and military authorities, cut the ribbon on France’s new complex munitions demilitarization facility Wednesday at acompany’s site in the center of France. In remarks at the Bourges Subdray site, Bouvier said that MBDA aims to establish firm and long-lasting partnerships with its domestic and foreign customers. “These customers now expect […] More

  • Navy Receives Boeing-Built Poseidon Plane Number 14
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    Navy Receives Boeing-Built Poseidon Plane Number 14

    Boeing has delivered a 14th P-A Poseidon airplane to U.S. Navy as the branch seeks to bolster its sea patrolling capabilities, the company said Wednesday. The first Poseidon squadron deployed in Kadena, Japan last winter to carry out operational missions and a second squadron is scheduled to deploy later this summer, Boeing says. Navy Commander Tony Rossi, […] More

  • BAE to Help Back Australia ‘Big Data’ Research Center; Kim Scott Comments
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    BAE to Help Back Australia ‘Big Data’ Research Center; Kim Scott Comments

    BAE Systems will contribute $1 million and other forms of support over the next five years to a research center in Adelaide, Australia that is partly funded by the country’s government and other contributions from the defense industry and academia. Personnel at the $88 million Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Center will research and develop tools to help […] More