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  • Red Hat Acquires Codenvy
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    Red Hat Acquires Codenvy

    Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), a provider of open source solutions, announced Thursday that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Codenvy, a provider of cloud-native tools that developers use to create modern container-based and cloud-native applications. Tools like Codenvy allow software engineers to spend less time on environment management, administration and other tasks that take them away […] More

  • Eric Barton Named CTO for DataDirect Networks’ Software-Defined Storage Portfolio
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    Eric Barton Named CTO for DataDirect Networks’ Software-Defined Storage Portfolio

    Eric Barton, former lead architect of Intel‘s high performance data division, has joined DataDirect Networks as chief technology officer of its software-defined storage portfolio. DDN said Wednesday his new role entails oversight of strategic roadmap, technology architecture and product design for the company’s newly formed Infinite Memory Engine business unit. “Barton is a visionary with a proven track record and deep understanding […] More

  • Leonardo Subsidiary Wins DSS Award for Counterintelligence Efforts; William Lynn Comments
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    Leonardo Subsidiary Wins DSS Award for Counterintelligence Efforts; William Lynn Comments

    A Leonardo subsidiary has received an Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence from the Defense Security Service for its efforts to develop methods against foreign theft of U.S. defense technology. Leonardo DRS has developed techniques to identify malicious communications and worked with other defense contractors to help them implement countermeasures, the company said Wednesday. “We support the tireless work of the DSS by […] More

  • Intellicheck Shareholders, Board OK Name Change; William Roof Comments
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    Intellicheck Shareholders, Board OK Name Change; William Roof Comments

    Intellicheck Mobilisa has officially changed its name to “Intellicheck Inc.” in efforts to establish a new corporate identity based on a strategic plan for growth in the field of identification authentication. The company said Monday its shareholders and board of directors voted in favor of the name change that takes effect immediately. “We believe our new company […] More

  • Raytheon Updates Automation Systems at New York-Based ATC Facility; Dave Wajsgras Comments
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    Raytheon Updates Automation Systems at New York-Based ATC Facility; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    Raytheon has updated terminal software, hardware and automation systems at an air traffic control facility in New York as part of a national airspace modernization  project. The company said Wednesday it installed the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System across the N.Y.-based Terminal Radar Approach Control facility in support of the Federal Aviation Administration‘s NextGen program. FAA awarded Raytheon a $350 million […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests 2nd SLS Flight Engine Controller Unit; Eileen Drake Comments
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests 2nd SLS Flight Engine Controller Unit; Eileen Drake Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested a second flight engine controller for its RS-25 rocket engine at NASA‘s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. NASA will use the Aerojet Rocketdyne-made engine technology to power the Space Launch System as part of a planned unmanned space mission, the company said Tuesday. Eileen Drake, president and CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne, said the RS-25 development and flight engines logged more than 6,800 […] More

  • Howard Lance: MDA Seeks to Diversify Into Earth Imagery Market Via DigitalGlobe Merger
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    Howard Lance: MDA Seeks to Diversify Into Earth Imagery Market Via DigitalGlobe Merger

    Canada-based MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates expects its pending merger with Earth imaging services provider DigitalGlobe to help counterbalance the fluctuating revenues and profits of its commercial satellite manufacturing business, Space News reported Tuesday. MDA agreed to buy DigitalGlobe through an estimated $3.6 billion transaction in February. Howard Lance, MDA president and CEO, told investors Tuesday the pending deal seeks […] More

  • Northrop to Design Hardware, Software for Air Force’s Next-Gen Navigation System
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    Northrop to Design Hardware, Software for Air Force’s Next-Gen Navigation System

    Northrop Grumman has secured a $49 million contract to design hardware and software for the U.S. Air Force‘s next-generation integrated navigation system. The company said Tuesday it will design preliminary architecture under the technology maturation and risk reduction phase of the Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System-Modernization program. EGI-M will be equipped with M-Code-capable GPS receivers to support the transmission of military signals. Dean Ebert, […] More

  • Boeing Performs Radar Upgrade on Saudi Arabia’s AWACS Aircraft
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    Boeing Performs Radar Upgrade on Saudi Arabia’s AWACS Aircraft

    Boeing has completed an effort to optimize the radar systems of Saudi Arabia’s fleet of E-3A airborne warning and control system aircraft. The Radar System Improvement Program is intended to boost the original equipment’s radar sensitivity and widen the range for tracking targets, Boeing said Tuesday. Northrop Grumman provided the RSIP kit which is comprised of a new radar computer, […] More

  • Janus Trains Ukraine Military, Defense Personnel on Landmine Action Strategies
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    Janus Trains Ukraine Military, Defense Personnel on Landmine Action Strategies

    Janus Global Operations has trained a group of Ukrainian military and defense personnel on landmine action quality management strategies as part of a two-month project the company carried out for a nonprofit mine-clearance organization. HALO Trust collaborated with JGO to develop training curriculum that encompassed  manual and mechanical techniques for battle area clearance, explosive ordnance disposal, mine detection and humanitarian […] More

  • Cisco Unveils Cyber Threat Defense Tool for Connected Devices
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    Cisco Unveils Cyber Threat Defense Tool for Connected Devices

    Cisco has introduced a technology platform that works to protect internet of things-based devices from cyber threats through network segmentation. Cisco IoT Threat Defense is an architectural service offering designed to protect health care, power grid, manufacturing and other critical infrastructure from potential cyber attacks, the company said Tuesday. The platform uses a network segmentation […] More

  • SES Completes UV Imaging Payload Integration on Communications Satellite
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    SES Completes UV Imaging Payload Integration on Communications Satellite

    SES has integrated a NASA instrument payload equipped with an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph onto the company’s SES-14 geostationary communications satellite. The Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk instrument’s spectrograph is designed to measure temperatures and densities in the Earth’s ionosphere and thermosphere to investigate ionospheric disruptions to navigation and communication transmissions, SES said Tuesday. SES-14 is built to provide C– […] More