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  • Intelsat CEO Stephen Spengler Named a Commissioner of UN Broadband Advocacy Group
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    Intelsat CEO Stephen Spengler Named a Commissioner of UN Broadband Advocacy Group

    Intelsat CEO Stephen Spengler has been appointed a commissioner of a United Nations-backed organization that aims to advance the use of broadband technology at developing countries and underserved communities. Spengler has indicated he will support the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development’s efforts to collaborate with the public and private sectors to help create a “digitally […] More

  • Inadev Adds 4 Members to Board of Advisers; Jitesh Sachdev Comments
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    Inadev Adds 4 Members to Board of Advisers; Jitesh Sachdev Comments

    Inadev has appointed Thomas Davis, Sid Fuchs, Ron Morgan and Steve Mullins to the strategic board of advisers at the McLean, Virginia-based information technology services contractor. All four appointees will offer guidance and advice to Inadev’s management team on efforts to drive financial performance and business growth, the company said Thursday. “They bring a wealth of experience, from […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Proposes Quadcopter Concept for NASA’s Saturn Moon Exploration Project
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    Johns Hopkins APL Proposes Quadcopter Concept for NASA’s Saturn Moon Exploration Project

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has proposed the concept of radioisotope-powered dual-quadcopter technology for a NASA mission that aims to explore potential habitable sites on Saturn’s largest moon. APL said Wednesday it envisions the Dragonfly technology utilizing Titan’s dense atmosphere to migrate from one geologic setting to another as the quadcopter evaluates the moon for livable environments. The […] More

  • HII Shipbuilding Division to Perform Repairs on USS Fitzgerald
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    HII Shipbuilding Division to Perform Repairs on USS Fitzgerald

    A Huntington Ingalls Industries business unit has been selected by the U.S. Navy to be in charge of repairing guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald. Ingalls Shipbuilding will perform repairs to the ship at its facilities in Pascagoula, Mississippi, HII said Wednesday. “Ingalls and all of its employees regret the tragic circumstances that will bring the ship to Pascagoula, but […] More

  • NIAS Helps Evaluate AI Tech on Microsoft-Built Sailplane
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    NIAS Helps Evaluate AI Tech on Microsoft-Built Sailplane

    Microsoft, the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development and the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems have performed simple and complex flight tests on a sailplane equipped with artificial intelligence technology. NIAS said Wednesday the team evaluated the Microsoft-built sailplane at the Hawthorne Advanced Drone Multiplex Test Range in Nevada. “Microsoft researchers have created a system that […] More

  • L3 Subsidiary to Supply EO/IR Imaging Turrets to Naval Surface Warfare Center
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    L3 Subsidiary to Supply EO/IR Imaging Turrets to Naval Surface Warfare Center

    A Canada-based subsidiary of L3 Technologies has received a potential $49 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply electro-optical and infrared imaging turrets to the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Crane Division. NSWC Crane will incorporate MX-10MS turrets from L3 Wescam into a larger system designed to address a situational awareness requirement under the Military Sealift Command Electro-Optical System program, the company said Wednesday. Wescam’s turrets […] More

  • VMware’s Bill Rowan: DoD, DOJ IT Execs Agree on Hybrid Cloud’s Value
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    VMware’s Bill Rowan: DoD, DOJ IT Execs Agree on Hybrid Cloud’s Value

    Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, has said information technology leaders from U.S. service branches and the Justice Department agree when it comes to the value of hybrid cloud technology, WTOP reported Wednesday. He participated in a Federal News Radio-hosted panel discussion with Daniel Corbin, chief technology adviser at the U.S. Marine Corps‘ C4 Headquarters; Randall Conway, […] More

  • SunPower Breaks Ground on Solar Photovoltaic System at Redstone Arsenal Army Base
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    SunPower Breaks Ground on Solar Photovoltaic System at Redstone Arsenal Army Base

    SunPower has broken ground on a 10-megawatt solar photovoltaic system designed to help increase energy resilience and security at the U.S. Army‘s Redstone Arsenal facility in Alabama. The company said Wednesday it will install the Oasis power plant system at the military base and expects the project to create approximately 200 jobs. “We’re continually looking for ways to […] More

  • Northrop-Lockheed Team Links Tactical Comms Terminal, AEHF Satellite in Over-the-Air Test
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    Northrop-Lockheed Team Links Tactical Comms Terminal, AEHF Satellite in Over-the-Air Test

    Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin have jointly led an industry team that tested the capacity of a tactical terminal to connect with an Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite managed by the U.S. Air Force. The over-the-air test aimed to demonstrate if the Low Cost Terminal could operate with the Defense Department‘s protected communications network, Northrop said Wednesday. LCT is designed […] More

  • Mike Lyons: Northrop Pitches Global Hawk UAV to Address F-22, F-35 Comms Gap
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    Mike Lyons: Northrop Pitches Global Hawk UAV to Address F-22, F-35 Comms Gap

    Northrop Grumman has proposed the use of its RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle for the U.S. Air Force to bridge a communications gap between the F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor aircraft platforms, Defense News reported. The report said the service branch’s F-35 and F-22 planes currently are unable to exchange information because the former uses the […] More

  • CSRA to Test Navy HR Mgmt System on AWS Cloud
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    CSRA to Test Navy HR Mgmt System on AWS Cloud

    CSRA has obtained authorization from the U.S. Navy to test a new integrated pay and personnel system for the service branch on Amazon Web Services‘ cloud platform. The Interim Authorization to Test permits CSRA to assess the viability and flexibility of running a commercial off-the-shelf human resource management platform on AWS cloud, CSRA said Wednesday. The COTS HRM system will […] More