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Harris has built a digital mission data unit for potential integration into the navigation payload of the U.S. Air Force‘s 11th and succeeding GPS III satellites. The company said Wednesday its MDU technology is designed to increase signal strength and flexibility of the GPS III Space Vehicle 11+ compared with the Harris-made payload on current GPS III satellites built […] More
Rockwell Collins is one of 25 U.S.-based companies that have received recognition under the National Veteran-Owned Business Association’s 2017 Military Friendly Supplier Diversity Program. The association included Rockwell Collins in the list of companies published in the Vetrepreneur magazine for including veteran-owned businesses into supplier diversity programs, the company said Wednesday. Vetrepreneur ranked the companies based on […] More
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, president and CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity, delivered a keynote speech Monday at the CyberConnect 2017 conference that took place in New York City. He told event audience he believes the U.S. government should play a key role in efforts to protect trade secrets the same way it helps secure critical infrastructure […] More
Mark Ferguson, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has been elected to join the board of directors at Alexandria, Virginia-based technical services contractor VSE effective Dec. 1. VSE said Wednesday Ferguson concurrently led U.S. Naval Forces Europe and U.S. Naval Forces Africa, as well as NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command before he retired from military service in July last year. The […] More
NASA has confirmed the operational status of two unmanned aircraft systems that Vanilla Aircraft and Black Swift Technologies separately developed through the space agency’s Small Business Innovative Research program. NASA said Tuesday Vanilla Aircraft’s VA001 and Black Swift’s S2 small UAS are both designed to support scientific investigations. VA001 works to operate in austere conditions with temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit, lift 35 […] More
Raytheon has powered up a new Common Ground System the company built to support an upcoming launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System. Version 2 of JPSS CGS is designed to transmit observations from 11 future polar-orbiting satellites to NOAA’s National Weather Service agency at a rate 50 percent faster than that of the original […] More
Northrop Grumman has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help develop a graph processor chip technology as part of DARPA’s Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit program. The company said Tuesday it will collaborate with five other parties in efforts to examine the performance of graph algorithms when incorporated into the HIVE chip. HIVE seeks to implement a generic graph […] More
A small satellite built by Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary for Telesat has been delivered to the Vostochny Cosmodrome launch base in Eastern Russia ahead of its scheduled late November launch aboard a Soyuz-2 rocket. SSL said the satellite will be one of two Phase 1 spacecraft that will help Telesat test the key performance parameters of its future low […] More
Orbital ATK has conducted a structural acceptance test on a motor composite case built to support the company’s Next Generation Launch family of space launch vehicles. The company said Tuesday the test demonstrated the structural loads’ capacity to generate more than 110 percent of the anticipated maximum motor operating pressure as well as operational, flight and […] More
The Defense Department‘s Joint Interoperability Test Command has tested the compatibility of communications technology platforms from Atos‘ Unify subsidiary and T-Metrics. Unify said Tuesday its OpenScape Voice system underwent a joint interoperability test with T-Metrics’ TM-2000 Multi-Purpose ACD Platform and TM-2000 Consolidated Answering System. The OpenScape voice session controller is certified by JITC and employs security tools based […] More
A new survey commissioned by Accenture and Salesforce says 49 percent of U.S. adults prefer to access government services through websites. Accenture said Tuesday 31 percent of respondents cited agency-specific telephone service as the most desired type of access; 25 percent prefer mobile devices without the use of applications; and 21 percent favor a single 311 telephone […] More
Meggitt Training Systems has developed a multiscreen virtual firearms training system intended for military and law enforcement personnel. The company said Tuesday it will introduce its FATS 300 at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference that will take place from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. FATS 300 is […] More
