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Raytheon Chairman and CEO Thomas Kennedy has said he believes maintaining data integrity should be part of an organization’s strategy to secure information technology assets from cyber threats. He wrote in an article published Tuesday on LinkedIn that data integrity protections can help companies defend against insider threats and comply with financial reporting standards under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. […] More
Charles Moorman IV and William Parrett have been elected to Oracle‘s board of directors in a unanimous vote that expands the number of board members to 14. As members of the board, they will serve a one-year term and will take part in the election during the annual stockholders meeting to be held in November 2018, […] More
PreTalen will continue to develop an automated platform for analyzing wireless communication systems under a $23.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The company aims to incorporate a signals-based test framework into the Position Navigation and Time Autonomous Negotiator Applying Cognitive Effects-Based Analysis system, or PANACEA, the service branch said Thursday. USAF expects PreTalen to finish the project March 30, 2023. PANACEA […] More
Turkey, a parts supplier for the F-35 program, will receive its first delivery of the aircraft on June 21, with a second one to follow after, AA reported Friday. The deliveries follow orders Turkey made in 2014 for two F-35 units that are scheduled for deployment by 2019. The U.S. military is currently training two […] More
AT&T will offer long-term evolution network coverage for a Transportation Department pilot program that aims to test unmanned aerial systems as part of the U.S. government’s push to integrate drones into the national airspace, Fierce Wireless reported Friday. The company will deploy its Flying Cell on Wings technology to support LTE cellular coverage in remote areas […] More
Jim Thomson, General Atomics’ regional vice president of international strategic development in the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas, has said the company has started to advise potential clients in the Middle East and other regions to begin purchase requests for drones they intend to buy from the U.S. government, Defense News reported Friday. Thomson […] More
Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security segment, told Military Times in a video interview aired Sunday that the company is going to deliver KC-46 aerial refueling tanker aircraft this year, citing several milestones. “You’ve seen the completion of several very critical milestones that were the major gates towards enabling that delivery. One […] More
xG Technology‘s IMT Vislink subsidiary will provide encrypted HD video downlink technology for a new law enforcement drone developed by K2 Unmanned Systems. The Knight Hawk drone was released during the Pasadena Police Department’s 29th APSA Fly-In Training event that took place Wednesday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., xG said Friday. The IMT Vislink technology is designed to collect […] More
MITRE is seeking ForeFlight users to help test a new mobile-based technology being developed to streamline the delivery process of instrument flight rules clearances. The test will support the former’s study on the use of mobile devices to deliver IFR clearances at airports that do not employ pre-departure clearance/data comm clearance, ForeFlight said Thursday. The study aims […] More
The General Services Administration plans to open to companies two pools of the unrestricted portion of the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract vehicle, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. GSA intends to award 15 contracts under pool 2 that covers financial services and two contracts for pool 6 that includes aircraft research and development support. […] More
When President Trump signed the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act into law in December, he also codified the Modernizing Government Technology Act, an amendment allowing agencies greater freedom in using allocated funds to spur digital transformation. That ongoing initiative has come as the public and private sectors continue to grapple with a variety of IT […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has begun construction of a Berkeley County, S.C.-based facility for the engineering and integration of technology platforms. SAIC said Friday it is scheduled to open the Platform Innovation Center later this year and expects to create up to 200 jobs there during the next five years. The center is part of the company’s efforts to grow […] More
