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CyrusOne has completed the steel framework for the company’s future data center campus in Sterling, Virginia. The new building will cover an area of 230,000 square feet upon its scheduled completion in the third quarter of 2016 and operate with up to 30 megawatts of power, CyrusOne said Tuesday. Tesh Durvasula, chief commercial officer at CyrusOne, […] More
Lockheed Martin has developed technology for the thermal management of high-powered microchips as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Inter/Intra Chip Enhanced Cooling Applications initiative. The company said Tuesday its microfluidic cooling system aims to increase the performance of monolithic microwave integrated circuit-based power amplifiers and embedded systems. A team of DARPA and Lockheed researchers found during a study that […] More
James Brunke, formerly a vice president at Boeing and CEO of its Shanghai aviation services business, has joined the industry advisory panel of Associated Aircraft Manufacturing and Sales Inc. The industry advisory panel will be part of AAMSI’s growth strategy, the aviation-focused small business said Monday. AAMSI works to design, produce and repair legacy electronic systems for various […] More
Mark Walsh, a top official at the Small Business Administration, will lead a fireside chat session with corporate executives and venture capitalists at the Big Idea CONNECTpreneur XVIII Forum April 28 at the Bethesda, Maryland-based Hyatt Regency. Walsh joined SBA in late 2015 as associate administrator of the office of investment and innovation, an agency component responsible for initiatives […] More
NASA has named the winners of the Small Business Industry Awards for fiscal year 2015 at the spring 2016 NASA Industry Forum meeting held Tuesday. The space agency said Wednesday this year’s awards went to Dynetics, Arcata Associates, Teledyne Brown Engineering and the Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International and Mathematical Research Inc. partnership. NASA holds the SBIA program every fiscal year to recognize the […] More
Inmarsat has received a Mobility Satellite Innovation Award from the Mobile Satellite Users Association in recognition of the company’s Global Xpress satellite communications constellation. Inmarsat accepted the 2016 Top Government Mobility Satcom Innovation award during MSUA’s inaugural awards ceremony at the four-day Satellite 2016 conference in Maryland, Inmarsat said Tuesday. Peter Hadinger, president of U.S. […] More
General Dynamics will provide lightweight two-channel radio technology to the U.S. Army through the company’s position on a potential $12.7 billion contract that the military service awarded on Feb. 26. Bill Ross, a vice president at General Dynamics’ mission systems business, said Monday the company aims to help military personnel exchange and secure tactical communications with its an […] More
Accenture‘s U.S. federal government subsidiary plans to hire up to 300 workers by the end of 2016 as the business works to expand its technology and innovation center in San Antonio, Texas. The San Antonio facility will also house an organization dedicated to SAP‘s HANA in-memory technology platform designed to help users apply analytics in functions such as logistics, […] More
The Joint Interoperability Test Command has tested a unified communications system that comprises Polycom‘s suite of business media phones and a Genband application server. The companies now await a final certification from JITC to integrate their Local Session Controller technology into the Defense Department‘s communications network, Genband said Monday. “Public sector organizations are in need of a standards-based […] More
Raytheon has conducted a flight test of Standard Missile-6 wherein the air defense missile engaged the decommissioned USS Reuben James, which served as a surface target for the test. The company said Monday the test aims to demonstrate the U.S. Navy‘s “distributed lethality” using ships placed in dispersed formation in an effort to enhance offensive strategy. During the flight […] More
iDirect Government has unveiled its new portfolio of defense remotes and line cards that aims to deliver bandwidth efficiency and reduced footprint to government customers. The company said Monday the 9-Series remotes feature the Evolution 3.4 software and work to double the 8-Series’ capacity through extended frequency ranges. iDirect added the 950mp, 900 and 9350 remotes supports access to Wideband Global Satellites […] More
The Transportation Department has partnered with Autodesk to offer Smart City Challenge finalists access to a building information modeling platform in an effort to help participating cities develop urban innovation plans, CityLab reported Monday. Eric Jaffe writes DOT has received ideas from more than 78 U.S. cities on how to address mobility and safety problems through technology and will announce five finalists at […] More
