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  • Thales Links Simulators of 2 UK Air Force Bases Under Self-Funded Project
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    Thales Links Simulators of 2 UK Air Force Bases Under Self-Funded Project

    Thales has connected flight simulators for Tornado aircraft at the British air force’s bases in Lossiemouth and Marham under a self-funded initiative. The company said Friday it provided the building, engineers, instructors, administration staff, classroom facilities and desktop training systems as well as two flight simulators at RAF Lossiemouth and one at RAF Marham under a private financial initiative agreement. Amit Talati, Thales […] More

  • Accenture Lands SEC Cloud Automation BPA; Elaine Beeman Comments
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    Accenture Lands SEC Cloud Automation BPA; Elaine Beeman Comments

    Accenture has received a five-year contract from the Securities and Exchange Commission to set up and maintain a structure designed to deliver enterprise automation support services related to the ServiceNow cloud-based platform to SEC. Accenture’s federal services business has partnered with Bravium Consulting to provide ServiceNow-related capabilities to SEC under the blanket purchase agreement, Accenture […] More

  • AeroVironment Intros Nano Quadrotor UAS for Close-Range ISR Applications
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    AeroVironment Intros Nano Quadrotor UAS for Close-Range ISR Applications

    AeroVironment has debuted a rugged miniature unmanned aircraft system the company designed to aid close-range military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Snipe Nano Quad is equipped with electro-optical/infrared, low-light-capable and long-wave infrared sensors and an integrated tilt mechanism for the transmission of images and record real-time video in daytime and nighttime operations, AeroVironment said Tuesday. “No assembly is required for the five-ounce […] More

  • Tech Industry Vet Tarun Loomba Joins Polycom as Solutions Mgmt EVP
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    Tech Industry Vet Tarun Loomba Joins Polycom as Solutions Mgmt EVP

    Tarun Loomba, formerly vice president and general manager of SanDisk‘s computing storage solutions business, has joined communications technology provider Polycom as executive vice president for solutions management. Polycom said Tuesday the more than 20-year technology industry veteran will oversee the company’s worldwide product and services management teams from its headquarters in San Jose, California. “His in-depth experience in hardware, software […] More

  • Reports: HPE Unveils Regional HQ, Incubator Program in Singapore
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    Reports: HPE Unveils Regional HQ, Incubator Program in Singapore

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has established a Singapore-based regional headquarters in a push to help address a demand for new technologies across the Asia-Pacific and Japanese markets, Nikkei Asian Review reported Tuesday. HPE said it foresees “strong growth” opportunities in the internet of things and hybrid information technology sectors in Singapore, Japan, Australia and India, according to the report. The regional office has […] More

  • UAE Taps CAE for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Training Support; Gene Colabatistto Comments
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    UAE Taps CAE for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Training Support; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    CAE has received a potential five-year $40.9 million contract to provide remotely piloted aircraft training support services for United Arab Emirates’ air force and air defense personnel. The company said Monday its CAE Maritime Middle East subsidiary will act as the principal contractor and help the Middle Eastern country establish a training facility for RPAs. Gene Colabatistto, president […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Finishes AR1 Engine Design Review
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Finishes AR1 Engine Design Review

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a critical design review of the company-built AR1 rocket engine. The company said Monday it aims to obtain flight certification for the AR1 technology in 2019 to help the Defense Department move away from foreign-made engines. Independent government and industry experts attended the review, which assessed whether AR1’s design meets performance requirements ahead of full-scale manufacturing, Aerojet Rocketdyne added. The […] More

  • Serco-Content Guru Alliance to Offer Contact Center Platform in Public Sector
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    Serco-Content Guru Alliance to Offer Contact Center Platform in Public Sector

    Serco has partnered with Content Guru to provide a cloud-based multichannel contact center platform to government customers. The two companies will offer Content Guru’s storm communications integration platform to support contact between government agencies and citizens regardless of channel, Serco said Monday. Storm is designed to provide a single central system that integrates communications made through various channels such as web, SMS, […] More

  • Roger Krone: Leidos Could Be Halfway Through IS&GS Business Integration by July
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    Roger Krone: Leidos Could Be Halfway Through IS&GS Business Integration by July

    Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, has estimated that the company will complete 50 percent of its integration with the information systems and global solutions business acquired from Lockheed Martin by July 1. Krone, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017, told analysts during an earnings call Thursday that Leidos plans to “accelerate the backend of integration” as the […] More

  • Boeing, Air Force Test Aircraft-Terminal Communications via Airborne Networking Tech
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    Boeing, Air Force Test Aircraft-Terminal Communications via Airborne Networking Tech

    Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have demonstrated the capacity of an airborne networking system to facilitate and secure communications between multiple aircraft and ground stations. The company said Monday its Talon HATE networking system helped F-15C pilots share information via the military’s Link 16, Common Data Link and Wideband Global Satellite Communications System during a flight test held at Nellis Air […] More

  • DOE Lab Adopts Red Hat’s Cloud Platform to Aid Research Efforts
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    DOE Lab Adopts Red Hat’s Cloud Platform to Aid Research Efforts

    The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed Red Hat‘s cloud platform within the laboratory’s compute and data infrastructure to support scientific and computational research projects at ORNL. Red Hat said Monday ORNL uses the company’s OpenStack Platform to provide cloud services in its Compute And Data Environment for Science infrastructure, which is designed to deliver computing, data analytics, […] More

  • Cobham, Inmarsat Launch New UAV SATCOM Service; Andy Start Comments
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    Cobham, Inmarsat Launch New UAV SATCOM Service; Andy Start Comments

    Cobham‘s satellite communications business and Inmarsat have unveiled a new unmanned aerial vehicle SATCOM service designed to help boost operational capacity for users. Inmarsat said Monday the SwiftBroadband UAV SATCOM service was designed for use with Cobham SATCOM’s Aviator UAV 200 terminal which combines various technologies into a compact and lightweight box and offers SATCOM connectivity. The […] More