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Richard Harris, a vice president at Bell Helicopter, has said a tiltrotor platform the company is developing for the U.S. Army has caught the interest of the U.S’ three other military service branches, Air Force Times reported Wednesday. Lara Seligman writes Harris told the publication Bell is in talks with the U.S. Navy and Air Force […] More

Alex Rossino, a senior principal research analyst at Deltek, reports that information security policies and management programs in the federal government are driving agencies to invest in cloud computing and big data technologies. He wrote in a blog article published Tuesday the market research company has forecast that federal agencies will collectively increase their spending on cloud computing services […] More

SRI International has created a new subsidiary that seeks to deliver training, performance assessment, test and evaluation as well as policy analysis services to commercial, government and military organizations. The company said Monday Ravenswood Solutions is a spinoff of its instrumentation and simulation business. Dan Donoghue currently leads the new company as president and CEO. SRI Chief Operating […] More

A new Research and Markets report predicts the distributed denial-of-service mitigation market revenue will reach $977.2 million by 2019 from $449.5 million in 2014. Research and Markets said Monday the demand for DDoS mitigation services sustains its growth trend as organizations continue to fall prey to this kind of attack. The report cites Akamai, Arbor Networks […] More

Leidos has partnered with Federated Wireless to build a technology for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to facilitate expansion of commercial wireless-radar spectrum sharing. DARPA awarded Leidos a potential one-year, $7.9 million contract under phase two of the agency’s Shared Spectrum Access for Radar and Communications program. Federated Wireless said Tuesday it aims to demonstrate the company’s Spectrum Access Service platform in conjunction […] More

NASA has received an Orion spacecraft module test model built by an Airbus Group subsidiary for evaluation at the agency’s Plum Brook Station in Ohio. Airbus Defence and Space developed the hardware on behalf of the European Space Agency and to support a future U.S.-led manned deep space exploration mission, Airbus said Monday. NASA and ESA signed an […] More

Raytheon has partnered with Advanced Electronics Co. to expand their collaboration on new platforms for civil and defense markets. The companies will also build new weapons systems, cyber platforms, land warfare tools, civil aviation systems and integrated sensors under the agreement signed at the Dubai Air Show in the United Arab Emirates, Raytheon said Monday. […] More

Aerospace company Aurora Flight Sciences and additive manufacturing firm Stratasys have designed and built a high-speed unmanned aerial vehicle using 3-D printing technology. Stratasys said Monday the UAV can fly faster than 150 miles per hour and is made of lightweight materials. Scott Sevcik, aerospace and defense senior business development manager for vertical solutions at Stratasys, noted […] More

Here is the second part of our interview with Barbara Humpton, CEO of Siemens‘ federal business — Siemens Government Technologies. Click here for part one. ExecutiveBiz: How should industry and government collaborate closer on energy initiatives? Barbara Humpton: Siemens has set a goal to be the first major industrial company to achieve a net zero carbon footprint by […] More

Orbital ATK has formed an affiliate company in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to offer technologies and support services to defense organizations across the UAE. The new business will operate under the Orbital ATK LLC name and is organized through a partnership between the U.S.-based rocket manufacturer and Al Tuff International, Orbital ATK said Monday. The company will co-locate […] More

Paul Oliver, a vice president at the defense, space and security business of Boeing, says Egypt could finalize an order for company-built Apache attack helicopters and associated support services in 2016, Bloomberg reported Saturday. He also told reporters Saturday that Boeing and Kuwait are close to signing a deal on F/A-18 Super Hornet multirole fighter planes, […] More

The Australian defense agency has awarded General Dynamics‘ European Land Systems subsidiary a $28 million contract to help upgrade a legacy waterborne bridging platform used by Australian armed forces for transportation. GDELS said Thursday it will also provide logistics and maintenance training support services through the Australian military’s floating support bridge system modernization project. The company is scheduled to begin […] More