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Siemens is seeking to target data center customers in the Asia Pacific region with its new Mumbai, India-based center, Infotech Lead reported Friday. Philip Krause, data center lead for the center of competence of Siemens, said the CoC is open for Siemens customers in the Asia Pacific region to test the company’s data center products […] More

The University of Maryland has opened its Center for Orbital Debris Education and Research to facilitate collaboration between academia, industry and government to address issues related to orbital space debris, GCN reported Thursday. “Most existing organizations focus on just one aspect of the problem—tracking, modeling, remediation, mitigation, policy, etc.—but CODER will serve as a research collective to […] More

Boeing Co. will repair F/A-18 aircraft for the U.S. Navy, under a $9.8 million contract modification, the Jacksonville Business Journal reported Thursday. Timothy Gibbons writes Boeing will perform most of the work in Jacksonville and the rest in St. Louis. The company has previously worked to manage supply of spares and repair services for the […] More

Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, recently visited Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding facility for a look into the construction process and progress on two aircraft carriers. HII said Thursday Kendall was given a 3-D model demonstration of the adjustments to the John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) aircraft carrier based on results from work on the Gerald […] More

F5 Networks has moved to bolster its portfolio of security platforms against distributed-denial-of-service-attacks by purchasing Defense.Net Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The companies aim to develop an integrated cybersecurity offering for organizations to avoid DDoS attacks on networks, applications and data center infrastructures, F5 said Thursday. “F5’s objective is to help protect customers from ever-changing […] More

Leidos will work to develop and integrate services for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic under three task orders worth nearly $54 million. Leidos will provide information assurance, training, configuration management, logistics, help desk support and Joint Concentrator Architecture site services for the SSC’s Distributed Common Ground System – Navy program, Leidos said […] More

Lockheed Martin has designed a ground-based system that aims to collect images of objects near geosynchronous orbit by using three 1-meter telescopes, Defense News reported Tuesday. Aaron Mehta writes that the Space Object Tracking platform is designed with a Lockheed-made software, which is meant to operate through remote control and can capture space objects as […] More

General Dynamics‘ UK arm has awarded two five-year subcontracts to Exelis for engineering and logistics work on very high frequency, ultra high frequency and tactical radios for the British defense ministry. Exelis has worked on the General Dynamics-led Bowman program in the UK for more than a decade and will also replace and repair radios […] More

Jim McNerney, CEO of Boeing, told shareholders Wednesday that the company wants to adopt an incremental strategy to build passenger airplanes instead of taking a once-a-generation development approach, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. “Our mind-set will be to avoid the moon shot,” McNerney said at the company’s annual investor meeting held Wednesday in Seattle. […] More

A team of NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers has begun integrating a thermal protection system onto the crew module of the agency’s Orion deep-space exploration vehicle. NASA plans to conduct a maiden test flight for the Orion spacecraft by Dec. 4, Lockheed said Wednesday. The test’s goal is to evaluate if the heat shield will […] More

Exelis has received a multimillion-dollar contract to help Japan’s national aerospace exploration agency develop a satellite payload for global atmospheric monitoring. The company will build a thermal and near infrared sensor for installation on the agency’s Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite-2, Exelis said Tuesday. GOSAT is scheduled for a 2018 launch and will work to measure […] More