Iridium Announces 10 Partners for Transceiver Dev’t Effort; Matt Desch Quoted
Iridium Communications has revealed the first batch of beta partners for the development of devices based on the company’s Certus 9770 transceiver.
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Capella Space to Expand Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Research Through SpaceNet Partnership
Capella Space has partnered with SpaceNet to help grow the nonprofit organization’s geospatial open source research initiative via the adoption of synthetic aperture radar data.
Northrop Eyes Production Capacity Increase for Global Hawk, Triton UAVs
Northrop Grumman  plans to increase the production of MQ-4C Triton and RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned air vehicles to 12 UAVs per year at its Site 7 facilities in Palmdale, Calif., as it expects to see a rise in demand for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, FlightGlobal reported Thursday.
SolarWinds Network Management Suite Approved for Federal Use
Information technology firm SolarWinds has achieved Department of Defense approval for the company’s suite of network management tools.
BAE Opens Innovation Hub in Georgia; Peder Jungck Quoted
BAE Systems officially unveiled an innovation facility at a cyber center in Augusta, Ga.
ULA Prepares for Second GPS III Satellite Launch
United Launch Alliance is in the last stage of preparations for the launch of the second satellite that will provide the U.S. military with Global Positioning System III service.
NIST Demos Experimental Atomic Clock Under DARPA Program
Research teams from the National Institute of Standards and Technology tested an experimental atomic clock as part of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Atomic Clock with Enhanced Stability initiative.
FTI Consulting Announces New Data Migration Services
FTI Consulting’s technology unit has unveiled a new suite of services designed to help government and commercial organizations migrate e-discovery data to a cloud computing platform.
HPE, AppGuard to Provide Cyber Stack for DISA Initiative; Joe Ayers Quoted
AppGuard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have partnered to offer cyber stack services and technology platforms to the Department of Defense through the Integrated Processor Capacity Services x86 initiative.
BCT to Help Viasat Demo Military Data Link Connectivity in Space
Blue Canyon Technologies will support Viasat’s effort to test a low-Earth orbit spacecraft designed to access the Link 16 military data link, which is used to transmit data between military vessels.
CDC Solicits New Toolkit for Nuclear-Related Disease Tracking
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeks a new platform that will help U.S. health agencies monitor illnesses that result from nuclear catastrophes, Nextgov reported Monday.