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Iron Bow Technologies has opened a new facility in Tampa, Florida, in effort to support the growth of the company’s Service Select offering and provide client services. The company said Wednesday the 24,000-square-foot office is located at Woodland Corporate Center and features office spaces, training facilities and new technology infrastructure. Iron Bow has employed 130 locals for […] More
Inmarsat supports a maritime and offshore industry-led global campaign that aims to protect marine vessels and crewmembers against the threat of cyber attacks. The Be Cyber Aware at Sea effort seeks to address cyber risks that face international shipping, ports and offshore operations through cyber awareness programs in the private sector, Inmarsat said Wednesday. The initiative offers training courses […] More
Thermwood and the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center East have entered into a two-year cooperative research-and-development agreement to mature the company’s large-scale additive manufacturing technology. The company said Dec. 20 its three-dimensional printing machines are designed to produce 3D-printed parts that are larger than needed and then trim the components to a final size through a near-net shape approach. “We are […] More
Falls Church, Virginia-based Vanilla Aircraft has developed and demonstrated a small unmanned aerial vehicle as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-sponsored small business project. The VA001 drone took off on Nov. 30 and flew for 56 hours near Las Cruces International Airport in New Mexico before it landed on Dec. 2 containing at […] More
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
