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NASA has awarded Orbital Sciences a contract to help the agency send an ionosphere-monitoring satellite to orbit in mid-2017 by using the company’s Pegasus rocket. Orbital said Monday it also started production work on the Ionospheric Connection Explorer satellite at a facility in Dulles, Virginia under a contract won in 2013. The company is contracted […] More

QinetiQ has bought SR2020‘s seismic imaging and processing technology for approximately $1.7 million to complement QinetiQ’s distributed acoustic sensor and vertical seismic profiling offerings. QinetiQ acquired the SR2020 platform to allow QinetiQ’s OptaSense business to provide, analyze and interpret subsurface seismic data for customers, OptaSense said Monday. Magnus McEwen-King, a managing director at OptaSense, said the […] More

The General Services Administration will launch a third iteration of its contract vehicle for federal property leasing and brokerage services. GSA said Monday it has posted a draft solicitation for a contract that will cover work to help the agency’s realty contracting officers perform market surveys, document preparation and site visits. The GSA Leasing Support Services […] More

Northrop Grumman  has completed the integrated baseline review for the U.S. Air Force‘s Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Communication technology. The company performed production, deployment and initial sustainment evaluation for the communications system the Air Force uses to transmit telemetry and supplies configuration commands and cryptographic planning to polar users, Northrop said Monday. The military’s satellite communications systems directorate […] More

Domingo Urena Raso, executive vice president for military aircraft at Airbus‘ defense and space business, said that international industry cooperation is possible to address demand for technology around the world, Defense News reported Sunday. “Industry knows how to cooperate internationally.. there is not a program that is made only by one company as far as I remember,” Raso […] More

Ball Aerospace & Technologies has supplied four phased array antennas and three cameras for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft. Orion’s antenna system is comprised of more than 5,000 components and designed to transmit data and voice communications from the capsule’s liftoff until its splashdown, Ball Aerospace said Friday. The company based its Orion flight test […] More

SAP‘s Australian business plans to invest $150 million over a five-year period in the future SAP Institute of Digital Government and a new data center in Canberra, Inside SAP reported Monday. Freya Purnell reports that the data center will offer SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud services to support citizen services and cloud-first policies at Australian federal government agencies. The SAP Institute of […] More

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has cleared Exelon‘s proposed acquisition of power distribution company Pepco Holdings. “FERC’s approval is another step forward toward completing this transaction,” Chris Crane, president and CEO of Exelon, said Friday. The companies aim to merge their electric and natural gas utility operations in a bid to expand their footprint in […] More

The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit information on a directional tactical data links and networks that are designed to work at higher frequencies. A Nov. 18 request for information calls for details on industry offerings and research and development efforts on tactical data links and interoperable networking systems. The service also seeks industry input on waveform agility to create capacity, latency, jam resistance […] More

IBM, Fluor and the University of South Carolina have unveiled a new Center for Applied Innovation as part of their public-private partnership and efforts to deliver personalized learning on analytics and higher education application services. IBM said Friday the team aims to help students acquire further information technology skills and knowledge, particularly in the field of applied computing, and to […] More

A new report from Allied Market Research projects the global Internet security market to be worth $42.8 billion by 2020 due to what the firm sees as increasing use Internet-based applications, particularly for online financial transactions. The firm said Thursday the market value for Internet security will climb at a compound annual growth rate of 8.1 percent over the next six years as […] More