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Iridium Communications‘ long-awaited next-generation satellite constellation will start to take form Sunday night when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. An initial 10 NEXT satellites will enter space then to kick off a seven-launch campaign to deploy 10 space vehicles at a time in a process to replace each […] More
Cambridge, England-based genome research organization Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has begun to offer “science-as-a-service†offering built on Red Hat’s OpenStack and CloudForms open-source technology platforms. The science-as-a-service offering works to standardize the institute’s cloud computing services, facilitate collaboration with biotechnology startups and help users run diverse workloads in cloud environments, Red Hat said Wednesday. Red […] More
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Noresco an energy savings performance contract to implement $22 million in infrastructure upgrades at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in New Mexico and El Paso VA Health Care System in Texas. Noresco said Wednesday it aims to help VA increase energy security, cut heating energy costs by up to 70 percent and meet El Paso VA […] More
General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business unit has secured a two-year, $56.7 million order from the U.S. Air Force as part of an existing foreign military sales deal to expand Spain’s current fleet of MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. The Defense Department said Wednesday that General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will also provide associated UAV equipment under Spain’s MQ-9 Exportable Block 5 Procurement […] More
Andromeda Systems Inc. has won a potential five-year, $40.6 million contract to provide logistics and technical support services to the U.S. Navy‘s Fleet Readiness Center Southeast. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract covers planning, analysis, development, training, support equipment management and facilities. Work will occur in Jacksonville, Florida; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Arlington, Virginia through January 2022. The Naval Air […] More
Al Yah Satellite Communications has placed an order for the Hughes Network Systems-built very small aperture terminal in an effort to expand Yahsat’s broadband services and other offerings delivered through its Ka-band Y1B satellite. The Hughes-built Jupiter System is a VSAT platform that integrates the DVB-S2X air interface standard through the company’s second-generation system-on-a-chip, a very large […] More
A new Deltek report predicts that U.S. federal government demand for vendor-furnished health information technology products and services will hit $6.4 billion by fiscal year 2021 from $6 billion in fiscal 2016 at a compound annual growth rate of 1.4 percent. The “Federal Health Information Technology Market, 2016-2021” report forecasts that efforts to digitize, share, analyze and […] More
Pamela Warren, director of government and industry solutions at Palo Alto Networks, has said government agencies should adopt automation in an effort to protect networks from emerging cyber threats and predict cyber attackers’ actions. Warren wrote in a FedTech Magazine article published Tuesday that a recent Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity report also recommended the […] More
Curt Dukes, former director of the National Security Agency‘s information assurance directorate, has joined the Center for Internet Security as executive vice president. He will oversee the center’s security best practices automation group that handles CIS controls and security benchmarks as well as tools designed to automate standards evaluation, CIS said Tuesday. Dukes will also lead efforts to expand the nonprofit’s standards content, […] More
Deborah Diaz, formerly chief technology officer and deputy chief information officer of NASA, has joined federal market consulting firm Deep Water Point as a principal. She will provide assistance in strategy development, implementation planning, information technology investment planning and technologies projects to Deep Water Point clients in her new role, the company said Wednesday. “Deborah brings a wealth […] More
The electronics and border security arm of Airbus‘ defense and space business has introduced a new portable jamming system to its portfolio of counter-unmanned aerial vehicle products that detect illicit intrusions of small drones, Trade Arabia reported Tuesday. The report said the counter-UAV product line, which will be christened as Xpeller at the Consumer Electronics Show […] More
AMSC has received a $4.5 million contract to research and develop a superconductor wire for the Energy Department‘s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the DOE-run Next Generation Electric Machines program. “This work with the DOE is complementary to our efforts to enable the U.S. Navy’s Electric Ship objective and will allow our team to […] More
