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The CTO Roundtable organization will be holding their tenth summit, “When Drones Fly†on June 11 and will feature what the group calls a “drone petting station” for attendees. A team of innovators from Gannett will exhibit unmanned aerial systems at the site during the event, CTO Roundtable said. Lance Sherry, executive director for the Center […] More
The Department of Homeland Security has selected woman-owned small business Eagle Hill Consulting to manage the Transportation Security Administration’s programs and train TSA personnel under a $30 million, five year contract. Eagle Hill will work to handle TSA’s intermodal security training and exercise program and perform risk-based security planning for the client, Eagle Hill said […] More
Students from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School have completed a series of flight tests of two prototype aircraft from Textron subsidiaries Textron AirLand and Beechcraft Defense Co. for the school’s Capstone Project. The student pilots performed 19 flight demonstrations at the company’s test centers in Wichita, Kansas, to assess the Scorpion intelligence, surveillance and […] More
Computer Sciences Corp. and Lockheed Martin have secured the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Direct User Access Terminal Service contract to provide self-serve flight planning services. IFlightPlanner said Thursday the new DUATS II contracts cover one base year of work and up to four one-year options and the program’s requirements will likely be incorporated into the FAA’s future Flight […] More
A subsidiary of NIC Inc. in Arkansas has introduced a government application for Apple Watch. The Gov2Go app from NIC’s Arkansas Information Consortium LLC works like a personal digital assistant to remind users about deadlines of car registration tag renewal, property tax payments and other government-related events, NIC said Thursday. “Since the founding of our […] More
Chris Chadwick, president and CEO of Boeing‘s defense, space and security business, believes industry must strive to address barriers to accelerating weapon innovation, he told Aviation Week in an interview published Thursday. He added that companies need to understand customer needs and “show them the art of the possible from an innovation perspective,” according to […] More
NJVC has opened a new office in the downtown area of St. Louis to provide information technology systems and services to potential clients and establish new partnerships with government and corporate organizations. “This new office marks a milestone for NJVC by expanding our footprint in the St. Louis region, a major strategic focus for the company,” […] More
Raytheon has shipped the initial hardware it built for the operational control technology of the U.S. Air Force’s global positioning system. The company said Thursday GPS OCX is designed to oversee the movements and capabilities of GPS satellites during ground, naval and aerial missions and safeguard the equipment from potential cyber threats. The Colorado-based Schriver […] More
Lockheed Martin has finished the construction of an Orion crew module and crew module adapter mockup at the company’s Littleton, Colorado-based facility. Engineers at the Orion test laboratory will next configure the mockup with harnessing, electrical power, sensors, avionics and flight software, Lockheed said Wednesday. The crew module and adapter mockup is designed to check the […] More
At least 1,000 enterprises in many sectors have started to access IBM’s threat intelligence database through a cloud-based network to facilitate information sharing and industry collaboration in an effort to address cyber attacks. The company said Thursday the IBM X-Force Exchange platform, launched in April, is designed to provide users access to a 700-terabyte repository that contains […] More
Rockwell Collins will work with NASA to develop a conceptual cockpit display that will depict a sonic boom over land under a two-year contract in support of the space agency’s High Speed Project. The company said Thursday its Advanced Technology Center will collaborate with the Armstrong Flight Research Center for efforts to help pilots of future supersonic civil transport aircraft mitigate a sonic boom’s […] More
The District of Columbia’s Department of General Services has partnered with BuildingIQ to implement a cloud-based energy management technology at eight public facilities within the capital. BuildingIQ will deliver its Predictive Energy Optimization platform to DGS-managed hospitals, schools and offices with the goal of helping the establishments save energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions, DGS […] More
