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Harris Corp. will provide its Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband networking manpack radios to the U.S. Marine Corps for voice and data connectivity under a $36 million contract. The company said Wednesday the radios are built to be interoperable with legacy narrowband networks and support the tactical communications and situational awareness needs of field commanders and squad leaders. “Marines on […] More
The U.S. Air Force has completed the first installation of Telephonics‘ AN/UPX-40 “identification friend or foe” interrogation system onto the Boeing-built E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft. Justin Oakes wrote July 28 that the Air Force will equip its entire fleet of 31 AWACS aircraft with the new interrogation system, which replaces AN/APX-103C and features Mode 5 Interrogation upgrades. Nick Grudziecki, […] More
Radiant Insights has released a report that predicts the drone launchers market will reach a $1.2 billion value by 2021 as the unmanned aerial systems market grows. The report indicates that the expansion of the drone market worldwide will create increased demand for aircraft launchers that do not require an airfield, Radiant Insights said July 9. […] More
Inmarsat is scheduled to launch a new satellite by the end of August, MarketWatch reported Thursday. CEO Rupert Pearce said the company’s latest network will then kick off commercial operation by the end of 2015, according to the report. “A successful launch of I-5 F3 in late August will enable us to introduce global GX commercial […] More
Deltek has highlighted the growing number of security incidents and high-risk areas in federal information systems in reports by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and Government Accountability Office. Kyra Fussell, a senior research analyst at Deltek, writes Tuesday that the recent addition to the high-risk list is the privacy of personally identifiable information. According to Fussell, […] More
ICF International has been awarded a nearly $30 million contact to perform technical and program support for NASA’s global change research program. ICF will assist the U.S. Global Change Research Program National Coordination Office to coordinate and assess the office’s plans and budget activity, and develop USGCRP’s web resources and applications, NASA said Wednesday. The […] More
Ray O. Johnson, a former Lockheed Martin chief technology officer and senior vice president, has joined the international advisory board of New York-based nuclear reactor system developer Terrestrial Energy. The 30-year defense industry veteran said Wednesday that he aims to help bring Terrestrial Energy’s molten salt reactor technology to the marketplace. Johnson supervised more than […] More
Michael Sheridan, formerly chief financial officer at FireEye, has joined electronic signature technology provider DocuSign as CFO and will report to the company’s Chairman and CEO Keith Krach. DocuSign said Wednesday Sheridan will succeed former CFO Mike Dinsdale, who will assume the role of chief growth officer. “[Sheridan] has a remarkable track record of building high growth companies in some […] More
Mark Malcolm, president and CEO of automotive structural metal assemblies supplier Tower International, has been appointed to the board of directors at General Dynamics. Malcolm will serve on General Dynamics’ audit committee, the company said Wednesday. “With Mark’s experience at the helm of a publicly traded manufacturing company and his financial management background, he’s an […] More
Cloudera has been recognized in two categories of Database Trends and Applications magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards for 2015. The magazine named Cloudera the best Hadoop and big data service for the second consecutive year, Cloudera said Wednesday. “It is an honor to be recognized by DBTA readers as the best Hadoop solution and the best […] More
Fulcrum IT’s enterprise solutions division has achieved the Capability Maturity Model Integration Continuous Level 3 rating in recognition of the division’s work to adopt process improvement practices in software development. Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute granted the CMMI Continuous Level 3 appraisal after an evaluation of Fulcrum’s division in several process areas. The institute looked at […] More
Deltek‘s Alex Rossino reports that the state of cloud spending at the Department of Homeland Security is unclear amid inconsistencies between verifiable spending data and data reported to the Office of Management and Budget. Rossino wrote in an blog entry posted Tuesday that while he was able to verify $22.31 million spent on cloud computing for fiscal […] More
