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  • RSA, Gigamon to Jointly Offer Network Security Tools for Traffic Visibility
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    RSA, Gigamon to Jointly Offer Network Security Tools for Traffic Visibility

    RSA and Gigamon have partnered to offer the GigaSECURE security delivery platform and RSA Security Analytics product to customers that seek visibility into software-defined data centers and other virtual network environments. Gigamon said Monday visibility into network traffic helps generate actionable intelligence to support network protection measures. “Customers need pervasive visibility into virtual East-West traffic in order to […] More

  • Peloton Receives Lockheed Investment for Truck Fleet Automation Tech
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    Peloton Receives Lockheed Investment for Truck Fleet Automation Tech

    Lockheed Martin has invested in Peloton Technology in an effort to help further develop and commercialize the latter company’s truck platooning technology. Peloton said Monday it raised $17 million in a recent funding round from Lockheed and several other investors, including Intel Capital and Denso International America. Peloton’s technology employs a radar-based active braking system, […] More

  • Northrop-ViaSat-Optus Team Bids for Australia’s Military Satcom Program; Ian Irving Comments
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    Northrop-ViaSat-Optus Team Bids for Australia’s Military Satcom Program; Ian Irving Comments

    Northrop Grumman, ViaSat and Optus have partnered to offer a technology for Australian armed forces to leverage a wideband global satellite communications network. The alliance proposed to give the Australian military access to the Satcom Operations and Planning Element, a Northrop-built network management system designed to integrate with WGS, Northrop said Monday. Ian Irving, chief […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium Put $3B Toward 66-Satellite Constellation
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    Matt Desch: Iridium Put $3B Toward 66-Satellite Constellation

    Iridium Communications has spent $3 billion on its program to launch 66 satellites that will work to offer airline companies satellite-based air traffic surveillance services, CEO Matt Desch told The Globe and Mail for an article published Sunday. Eric Atkins writes those satellites will carry instruments to collect information such as aircraft speed and location in an effort to help airlines manage fuel usage and flight […] More

  • FireEye, Cybergy Labs Form Gov’t-Commercial Sector Cyber Defense Partnership
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    FireEye, Cybergy Labs Form Gov’t-Commercial Sector Cyber Defense Partnership

    FireEye and a Cybergy Partners subsidiary have teamed up to combine their technology offerings and services in an effort to help government and commercial enterprises protect their information technology infrastructures from cyber threats. FireEye will work to integrate its Multi-Vector Virtual Execution tool and Mandiant’s endpoint security and incident response services with Cybergy Labs’ SmartFile system under […] More

  • Third Inmarsat Global Xpress Satellite Enters Orbit; Rupert Pearce Comments
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    Third Inmarsat Global Xpress Satellite Enters Orbit; Rupert Pearce Comments

    A new Boeing-made satellite lifted off Friday from Kazakhstan onboard an International Launch Services-built Proton Breeze M space vehicle to become part of Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite communications network. Rupert Pearce, CEO of Inmarsat, said Thursday the new GX satellite joins a constaellation that works to help customers quickly introduce new applications and offer remote mobile broadband services to […] More

  • DARPA to Host Proposers’ Day for ‘Gremlins’ UAS Program
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    DARPA to Host Proposers’ Day for ‘Gremlins’ UAS Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Tactical Technology Office plans to unveil information on its Gremlins program during a Proposers’ Day from Sept. 24 to 25. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps said registration is open through Sept. 18. According to DARPA, the Gremlins program aims to utilize small unmanned aircraft systems for coordinated support during distributed U.S. military […] More

  • Lockheed, WUT Conclude Airborne Systems Integration Research Project
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    Lockheed, WUT Conclude Airborne Systems Integration Research Project

    Lockheed Martin and the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland have wrapped up their collaborative research of new methods to integrate manned and unmanned airborne technologies. The company said Friday it helped university researchers develop software during the Optimizing Unmanned System of Systems research project. The partnership sought to identify techniques to enable aircraft systems […] More

  • Tropical Storm Delays Lockheed-Built MUOS-4 Satellite Launch
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    Tropical Storm Delays Lockheed-Built MUOS-4 Satellite Launch

    The launch of a new Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite has been moved to Wednesday due to tropical storm Erika, SpaceFlight Insider reported Monday. Lockheed said Friday MUOS-4 will join the other three satellites in the U.S. Navy’s communications satellite network that works to provide video, data and voice capabilities for mobile uniformed personnel through an Internet protocol-based platform. […] More

  • General Dynamics to Provide Engineering Support for Naval Surface Warfare Acoustic Research Unit
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    General Dynamics to Provide Engineering Support for Naval Surface Warfare Acoustic Research Unit

    The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics’ information technology business a potential five-year, $39.8 million contract to provide technical and engineering support services for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock division’s acoustic research detachment. General Dynamics will perform work through August 2020 and the Navy obligate $2,775,000 at the time of award from fiscal 2015 research, test, […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global Soldier Modernization Market to Reach $13B by 2025
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    Research and Markets: Global Soldier Modernization Market to Reach $13B by 2025

    A Research and Markets report predicts the global soldier modernization market will hit $12.8 billion by 2025 from $8.3 billion in 2015. The report analyzed drivers, spending pattern, modernization trends and growth stimulators for the soldier modernization market in a span of 10 years, Research and Markets said Tuesday. It set the compound annual growth rate at 4.38 percent, with technological […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Builds 100th SM-3 Propulsion Control System for Raytheon
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Builds 100th SM-3 Propulsion Control System for Raytheon

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has built and delivered its 100th throttling divert and attitude control system for the Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptor. Aerojet said Wednesday that TDACS is currently the only MIL-STD 1901A standards-compliant solid rocket propulsion system being used by the U.S. Navy. The company also manufactures first- and second-stage SM-3 Block IB booster […] More