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Boeing will open a cyber analytics center in Singapore as the company aims to help its clients in the Asia-Pacific region fulfill cybersecurity requirements. The company will provide training and equipment to cybersecurity professionals at the facility and employ cyber personnel to work at the center, Boeing said Monday. “We are taking our Singapore partnership to a new level with this […] More
Paul Austin, chief technology officer of EMC’s federal division, believes it is critical for agencies to view applications across their enterprise and cloud platforms for resiliency, Federal Times reported Sept. 15. He said agencies must shift their focus on the applications and their connections to business processes, Rutrell Yasin reports. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has deployed the cloud-based RSA Archer portal to […] More
Lockheed Martin and NASA have confirmed that the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft has entered Mars’ orbit as they prepare for MAVEN’s primary mission to collect data on gases in the planet’s upper atmosphere. NASA said Sunday that the team used data from Lockheed’s Colorado operations center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s California navigation facility to confirm orbit insertion. MAVEN, which Lockheed built, […] More
Engility has been awarded a $24.6 million contract to support the U.S. Agency for International Development in a program aimed at helping the government of Rwanda to grow that nation’s agricultural industry. The company said Thursday its technical advisers will work with USAID and the Rwandan government to encourage agriculture-related private investments in the African country. […] More
NASA launched a SpaceX cargo ship on Sunday to deliver approximately 5,000 pounds of science experiments, technology and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon capsule launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:52 a.m. Eastern Time, NASA said Sunday. Dragon’s cargo package includes […] More
Leidos selected XTAR late last year to provide colocation space in Mount Jackson, Virginia to host tests of an airborne communications system on an manned intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft used by the U.S. Army. XTAR said Aug. 20 that tests held at the Mount Jackson teleport includes Leidos’ X-band antenna and terrestrial connectivity network that leverages the XTAR-LANT satellite system. Andrew Ruszkowski, XTAR […] More
A new Deltek report predicts federal spending on health information technology products and services will grow from $4.3 billion in fiscal 2014 to $4.8 billion in fiscal 2019. Deltek said Thursday the aging population, high medical costs and new healthcare programs for active-duty military as well as veterans are projected to drive federal HIT investment […] More
IBM has released a report that aims to guide companies on how to use data analytics and enterprise mobile tools beyond customer relationship management to facilitate employee collaboration, decision-making and innovation. The IBM Institute for Business Value report titled, “The Individual Enterprise – How Mobility Redefines Business” is intended to help businesses establish the foundation for a mobile initiative, the company […] More
Praescient Analytics has unveiled a new page on its website that is for the public to view video demonstrations of the company’s workflows on projects that support government, military, law enforcement, intelligence and commercial operations. The Analysis Demo Library includes workflows for addressing issues such as cyber attacks, fraud, waste, smuggling and trafficking using Praescient technology tools, the company said. Praescient […] More
Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has opened a new office in Los Angeles to expand its engineering and technology service operations for military and private sector customers in the Southern California region. Robert Brady, formerly of LinQuest, TASC and Northrop Grumman, heads the LA site as director for Air Force space acquisition and technology in […] More
Thales has been chosen by U.K.-based air traffic management firm NATS to provide a technology for detecting potential conflict between aircraft in order to prevent collision. NATS will deploy Thales’ TopSky–Safety Nets platform at two air traffic control facilities located in Swanwick, England and in Prestwick, Scotland, Thales said Friday. The system is built to […] More
Raytheon has started work on additional components for the Missile Defense Agency’s Ballistic Missile Defense System radars. MDA awarded the $53,252,500 contract modification in early September, the company said Thursday. Under the contract, Raytheon will build two trailer-sized subcomponents that will be swapped with the AN/TPY-2 electronic and cooling equipment units currently in use and […] More
