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Boeing and the U.S. Army have tested a company-built laser system to evaluate how the technology targets aerial objects through rough conditions. The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator used an Oshkosh-vehicle-installed laser to destroy targets during the demonstration at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, Boeing said Thursday. “Under windy, rainy and foggy weather conditions in Florida, these engagements […] More

A consortium comprising of Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel and Emerson‘s network power business has developed a technical industry standard to help administrators manage, secure and modernize data center systems. Redfish network interface is designed to make different server platforms interoperable and extract insights from big data to improve system monitoring, the companies said Thursday. The […] More

Platform-as-a-service gives federal agencies a tool to support their initiatives on cloud computing and data center consolidation but many have not embraced PaaS due to several reasons, James Benson of HumanTouch says. Benson, a HumanTouch senior vice president, wrote in a post for GCN published Thursday that he believes some system integrators are hindering federal adoption of PaaS despite its functions in application […] More

Raytheon Co. and the U.S. Air Force have demonstrated the Small Diameter Bomb II tri-mode seeker to target stationary and moving objects during three guided tests. The SDB II worked to identify wheeled and tracked targets using sensor data during the tests, Raytheon said Thursday. “These guided tests were successfully accomplished against separate targets in both moving and […] More

The global market for unmanned ground vehicles is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 32.72 percent to $8.26 billion in value by 2020, according to a MarketsandMarkets report. MarketsandMarkets said Wednesday UGV technological advances as well as the increasing demand for the platform’s combat and non-defense applications are some of the factors […] More

Los Alamos National Laboratory has agreed to a deal with Allied Minds subsidiary Whitewood Encryption Systems to commercialize the laboratory’s quantum-based data encryption technology. The compact random-number-generation tool works to generate cryptographic keys based on the random polarization state of photons for high data rate encryption, Los Alamos National Laboratory said Tuesday. “Quantum systems represent the best hope for truly secure data […] More

The U.S. Army has been developing an open architecture for military drone ground control stations in collaboration with software company Real-Time Innovations and General Dynamics‘ advanced information systems business. RTI said Wednesday the framework supports the Future Airborne Capability Environment program that aims to help the government and industry boost interoperability between avionics platforms. “In […] More

Gartner has predicted in a forecast that global spending on information security will reach $76.9 billion by 2015, up 7.9 percent from the firm’s recorded figure for 2014, George Koroneos of Verizon said Tuesday. The research firm said at a summit in Australia that businesses are increasing their information security investments due to the rise in adoption of cloud […] More

Battelle has been awarded a nearly $6 million contract to provide technical support services for the Environmental Protection Agency‘s project to restore ocean and coastal environments in the U.S. Battelle scientists and engineers will work with the EPA’s oceans and coastal protection division for the next five years to conduct research and strategic planning in several watersheds across the […] More

Federal agencies have consistently purchased engineering and technical services, IT and telecom services and automatic data processing software the most during the fourth quarters of the past five fiscal years, reports Deltek‘s John Slye. Slye writes Tuesday that this trend is based on contract records in the Federal Procurement Data System, which show that agencies have allotted their remaining budgets […] More

Research and Markets has released a new report that predicts the military radar global market could reach a total value of $8.4 billion by 2019 from the $6.9 billion recorded in 2012. Increased demands from the army, navy and air force services, as well as emergency responders have spurred the military radar market’s growth worldwide, Research and […] More

Mark Aslett, CEO of Mercury Systems, predicts the company will be open to acquisitions in the digital signal processing modules market during the next year, the Boston Business Journal reported Tuesday. David Harris writes Aslett said the firm could expand its portfolio by purchasing companies with radio frequency or microwave offerings for electronic warfare. The […] More