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Honeywell‘s process solutions business plans to open a facility in Singapore by the end of 2017 to provide managed cybersecurity services intended to help Asia-Pacific customers manage security posture and avoid breaches. The company said Thursday its cybersecurity center of excellence for the APAC region will feature a research-and-development laboratory, a security operations center and a training facility. The lab will […] More
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded PCX Aerostructures a potential five-year, $67 million contract to supply right connecting links for the weapon system of the U.S. Army‘s AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. The Defense Department said Thursday the Army will use working capital funds from fiscal 2017 through fiscal 2022 to pay for the procurement of […] More
Michael Genseal, a former executive director at Concurrent Technologies Corp. and vice president at Science Applications International Corp., has been named senior director of the energy solutions business at technology and professional services provider TechFlow. The 35-year energy business development and management veteran will be responsible for overseeing the unit’s business activities and functions in his new position, TechFlow said Monday. […] More
Rob Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Space Systems Loral’s government systems business, has said SSL’s parent company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates aims to provide Earth imagery and analysis services to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies through its pending merger with DigitalGlobe, Space News reported Thursday. MDA agreed to buy DigitalGlobe through an estimated $3.6 billion […] More
The Transportation Security Administration has approved an automated screening lane system from Vanderlande and Optosecurity for operational readiness tests at category-X airports in the U.S. The ASL system that combines Optosecurity’s eVelocity platform with Vanderlande’s SCANNOJET offering passed pre-approval assessments by the TSA’s innovation task force, Optosecurity said Thursday. “We look forward to providing a new ASL option to U.S. airports and airline carriers,” […] More
Mitre has published a new report that includes multiple strategies on how public and private organizations can establish a national ecosystem to share unclassified cyber information. Bruce Bakis and Edward Wang, respectively a manager and a thought leader at Mitre, wrote in a joint article published Wednesday the “Building a National Cyber Information-Sharing Ecosystem” report contains 11 recommendations […] More
Amazon Web Services plans to establish a new corporate campus in Fairfax County, Virginia, as part of expansion efforts and expects the project to create up to 1,500 jobs. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership teamed up with the Major Employment and Investment Commission of the state’s general assembly to land the project, AWS said Thusrday. The AWS facility will be […] More
Hortonworks and ViON‘s Ascolta subsidiary have teamed up to offer big data analytics in an appliance-like or as-a-service deployment. The joint offering integrates Ascolta’s analytics platform with the Hortonworks Data Platform to provide support for federal, state and local agencies as well as commercial organizations, Ascolta said Thursday. “As data volume dramatically increases, organizations need access to tools that allow […] More
NASA has awarded three teams slots to launch their small satellites aboard the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft dubbed Exploration Mission-1. Winners of the Cube Quest Challenge include Cislunar Explorers from Cornell University, CU-E3 from the University of Colorado and Team Miles from Tampa, Florida-based company Fluid & Reason, NASA said Friday. […] More
Globecomm has expanded the coverage of its Ku-band very small aperture terminal network services to shipping vessels traversing the South Indian Ocean. The company said Thursday the South Indian Ocean serves as a shipping route between Australia and the southern end of Africa. Globecomm’s Ku-band VSAT network currently provides broadband communications services to vessel operators […] More
Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries have partnered to design and build unmanned undersea vehicles as part of a joint pursuit of the U.S. Navy‘s Extra Large UUV program. The partnership will use HII’s design and production facilities in Huntington Beach, California; Newport News, Virginia; and Panama City, Florida, Boeing said Thursday. The Navy announced in January it plans […] More
Bethesda, Maryland-based cloud consulting and managed services provider stackArmor has met the requirements for a “Security Competency” designation under an Amazon Web Services partner network. AWS has included stackArmor as one of ten initial security consulting launch partners for the former’s Partner Competency Program that works to help clients identify vendors that can help them integrate and implement cloud-based platforms, stackArmor said Wednesday. StackArmor […] More
