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  • Research and Markets: UAV Market Worth $10.6B in 2020
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    Research and Markets: UAV Market Worth $10.6B in 2020

    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

  • Navy Tests SEWIP Upgrade on Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer
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    Navy Tests SEWIP Upgrade on Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer

    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

  • KCG’s Matt Brown: Enterprises Should Keep ‘Foundational’ Cyber Tools Intact
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    KCG’s Matt Brown: Enterprises Should Keep ‘Foundational’ Cyber Tools Intact

    Matt Brown, vice president of homeland security and cyber solutions at Knowledge Consulting Group, says organizations must ensure their information technology infrastructure has the basic tools to identify security vulnerabilities. Brown wrote in a piece for Security Magazine published Thursday that enterprises should review their systems while prioritizing system weaknesses by potential impact so they […] More

  • Lyn Hurd: Fulcrum Healthcare to Help Intellect Solutions Update Defense HAIMS System
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    Lyn Hurd: Fulcrum Healthcare to Help Intellect Solutions Update Defense HAIMS System

    Fulcrum‘s healthcare division will support Intellect Solutions as a subcontractor in providing enhancement and maintenance services for the Defense Health Clinical Systems‘ Healthcare Artifact and Image Management Solution. Lyn Hurd, the division’s vice president, said Thursday that the company will help in updating the service treatment records and clinical workflows on the HAIMS websites. The HAIMS program works to facilitate […] More

  • Verizon’s Rafeeq Rehman: Active Monitoring, Response Plans Key in Data Breach Mitigation
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    Verizon’s Rafeeq Rehman: Active Monitoring, Response Plans Key in Data Breach Mitigation

    Companies should actively monitor their networks, establish a crisis management plan and instill employee awareness to mitigate the impact of cyber attacks on both operations and business, Verizon‘s Rafeeq Rehman says. Recent incidents of data breaches indicate how hackers can target even old data as companies store these information for use in analytics applications, Rehman writes on Verizon’s enterprise cloud […] More

  • Dan Hart: Boeing GPS IIF Program Moves Forward With 8th Satellite Launch
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    Dan Hart: Boeing GPS IIF Program Moves Forward With 8th Satellite Launch

    Boeing has received signal confirmation that its eighth GPS IIF satellite in space has started to prepare for full operations after its launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The GPS IIF-8 satellite launched aboard United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket and is the last launch for the U.S. Air Force program this year, Boeing said Wednesday. “The schedule this year […] More

  • Jim Sponnick: ULA Achieves 50th Atlas V Mission With 8th USAF GPS Satellite
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    Jim Sponnick: ULA Achieves 50th Atlas V Mission With 8th USAF GPS Satellite

    United Launch Alliance has launched the latest global positioning system satellite to join the on-orbit constellation that will provide timing and navigation services for a U.S. Air Force program. The company said Wednesday that an Atlas V 401 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle carried the GPS IIF-8 satellite to space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Jim Sponnick, ULA vice president for the […] More

  • Dave Amoriell: Xerox Maven Software Deployed for Ebola Contact Tracing
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    Dave Amoriell: Xerox Maven Software Deployed for Ebola Contact Tracing

    Xerox has released an update of its Maven outbreak management software that works to host contact-tracing data on communicable diseases such as Ebola and other public health information in a cloud platform. The company said Thursday that Maven leverages data and analytics to track the path of infection or exposure to disease and facilitates data sharing and integration between public […] More

  • Harris to Build Wideband Tactical Radios for Central Asian Client; Brendan O’Connell Comments
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    Harris to Build Wideband Tactical Radios for Central Asian Client; Brendan O’Connell Comments

    Harris Corp. has won an $18 million contract to supply Falcon III wideband tactical radios to a nation client in Central Asia. The customer plans to deploy the RF-7800H high-frequency manpack and the RF-7850M multiband handheld radios to its frontline forces through the radio systems, Harris said Thursday. “Harris radios deliver highly reliable and secure communications for critical missions on the battlefield,” said […] More

  • Northrop’s Jeffrey Palombo Showcases Open-Architecture Avionics System
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    Northrop’s Jeffrey Palombo Showcases Open-Architecture Avionics System

    Northrop Grumman has exhibited an integrated avionics system built to help develop configurable aircraft in the future. The company showcased its newest avionics equipment and highlighted other C4ISR initiatives during a National Press Club briefing, Northrop said Wednesday. Jeffrey Palombo, vice president and general manager of Northrop’s land and self protection systems division, said airplanes need open architecture design of sensors, surveillance equipment […] More

  • Boeing, Danish Firms Ink A&D Market Partnership; Debbie Rub Comments
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    Boeing, Danish Firms Ink A&D Market Partnership; Debbie Rub Comments

    Boeing has partnered with six Danish companies to pursue business opportunities in the defense and aerospace industries. Boeing inked agreements with Danish Aerotech, Falck Schmidt Defence Systems, IFAD, Multicut, Systematic and Terma in connection with Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet offering to Denmark, Boeing said Thursday. “The areas of cooperation identified in these agreements draw upon the specialized capabilities of Danish industry to […] More