Industry News

The Boston Consulting Group has released a report indicating “relatively high satisfaction levels” globally among people using online government services in their country, following a survey of 12,450 digital service users, FierceGovernmentIT reported Wednesday. Dibya Sarkar writes that the respondents were from 12 countries and used 37 separate government services, with those from developed countries reporting […] More

Dan Kaufman, DARPA‘s Information Innovation Office director, has revealed that the agency is looking into technology that will help secure the emerging Internet of Things, Gigaom reported Thursday. David Meyer writes Kaufman discussed such potential developments at the recent Gigaom Structure event in San Francisco attended by several technology industry leaders. Kaufman said DARPA is working on […] More

Brian Stevens, chief technology officer at Red Hat, says the company will continue to pursue acquisition deals to grow its OpenStack-powered enterprise cloud offerings, GigaOM reported Thursday. Mathew Ingram writes that Red Hat has agreed to acquire distributed file system provider Inktank for $175 million and signed a deal to buy open-source cloud services provider […] More

UXC, an information technology services provider, has acquired two companies specializing in Oracle and SAP platforms to further grow UXC’s enterprise resource planning software business, CRN Australia reported Thursday. Steven Kiernan writes that UXC disclosed its two new acquisition deals during a market update Wednesday and it expects to close both transactions this month. The […] More

Hewlett-Packard conducts service delivery reviews to gain new technological ideas and use these to improve customer experience, Washington Technology reported Wednesday. Nick Wakeman writes that Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager for public sector at HP Enterprise Services, has said the current business landscape pushes HP to collaborate with clients on balancing cost […] More

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has picked Ball Aerospace & Technologies to develop optical and ground mount structures for a giant telescope that will be used to observe the sky from a Chilean mountain. Ball Aerospace and partner Arizona Optical Systems will produce, integrate and test the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope‘s refractive lenses and support […] More

Northrop Grumman has begun construction on a 220,000 sq ft office and research facility at its Melbourne International Airport campus in Florida, the Orlando Business Journal reported Wednesday. The building is part of the first phase of the company’s planned $500 million, 720,000 sq ft expansion of the campus, Anjali Fluker writes in the exclusive report. The completed […] More

NASA has awarded five U.S. academic institutions with a $100,000 grant each and opportunities to conduct research and development work aboard the International Space Station as part of its Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. The agency said Wednesday the research coverage, including ultrasonic sensor and self-healing polymers technology, is crucial for NASA missions as well […] More

A working group formed by the Defense Department and the National Institutes of Health will meet this week to identify possible collaborative research projects in human performance. DoD and NIH established the Human Performance Optimization Working Group with the aim of developing programs designed to help military and civilian individuals manage physically and emotionally demanding […] More