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Unisys will establish a new facility in Augusta, Georgia, to provide information technology services to the company’s government and commercial clients. The company plans to perform help desk support under a contract with the U.S. Army at the IT center and will collaborate with a Fort Gordon cyber hub to recruit IT talent, Georgia Gov. […] More
With the recent partnership of SkyLink Aviation and Baer Air, the SkyLink leadership team paid a visit to the Melbourne, Florida-based aircraft charter company to not only identify mutual opportunities, but to also watch the second annual Melbourne Air & Space Show, which was attended by 250,000 spectators in early October. The main attraction of […] More
Roberto Tavano of Unisys says that increasing incidents of organized cyber crime and emergence of crime-as-a-service means companies should work further on risk management, collaboration and cyber awareness and education to protect their systems. Tavano – vice president of global security sales for technology, consulting and integration services at Unisys – wrote in a blog post published Thursday that online criminals are now turning to the digital underground to […] More
A new Frost & Sullivan study says investments from government and healthcare providers have facilitated increased usage of electronic health records and have placed EHR retrieval as an important service priority. Frost & Sullivan said Thursday the “EHR Usability—CIOs Weigh in On What’s Needed to Improve Information Retrieval” report notes hindrances in EHR usage, such as speed and accuracy of data retrieval […] More
DigitalGlobe has unveiled several images that were captured by the firm’s new WorldView satellite with a 30-centimeter-resolution camera technology. The company released WorldView-3 imagery samples to demonstrate how visual information from the commercial satellite can help urban planners, transportation agencies and insurance companies, DigitalGlobe said Thursday. One satellite photo shows an airport in Madrid and […] More
A General Dynamics subsidiary has begun work to build two Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer ships for the U.S. Navy. Bath Iron Works laid the keel for the USS Rafael Peralta at a ceremony held Thursday at its Bath, Maine shipyard, General Dynamics said Thursday. The U.S. Navy named the destroyer after Sgt. Rafael Peralta, […] More
Strategy Analytics predicts spending on airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology for electronic warfare operations will increase in the U.S., Russia, China and India during the next nine years. The global airborne ISR sector is projected to grow at a 3.2 percent compound annual growth rate between 2013 and 2023 to a total market value […] More
Industry analysts believe the U.S. Defense Department needs to broaden its outlook on technology research and development efforts in order to accelerate military innovation, Defense News reported Saturday. Paul McCleary writes Byron Callan, director at research firm Capital Alpha Partners, said the agency should include both established and nontraditional contractors in acquisition dialogues. “If we’re […] More
KBR Inc. has won a five-year, $50 million contract to renovate, repair and maintain the U.S. Navy‘s base in Africa. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity job order to KBR to support the Defense Department‘s activities in Djibouti, Africa, KBR said Friday. “KBR’s prior success working in Djibouti has led to the award of this contract,†said Stuart […] More
Jonathan Moneymaker oversees areas such as corporate strategy, business development, capture and legislative affairs in his role as chief strategy officer at Altamira Corp., the company that formed out of the Invertix–Near Infinity merger last year. A former business unit general manager from Boeing, Moneymaker’s GovCon career includes leadership roles in mergers and acquisitions such as Anonymizer‘s combination […] More
Research and Markets has released a new report that projects the unmanned aerial vehicle market to reach $10.57 billion in value by 2020. The growth represents a 7.73 percent from the $6.76 billion value recorded in 2014, Research and Markets said Friday. North America represented 69 percent of the global UAV market in 2014 and production and demand of this system […] More
The U.S. Navy moved closer to updating its ship-based electronic warfare systems with the installation of a Lockheed Martin-built sensor suite on the USS BainBridge, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Kris Osborn writes the Block 2 SLQ-32 Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program is designed to increase the early detection and signal analysis capability of the warship fleet. The operational testing is part of […] More
