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  • Tom Frana: ViON Debuts On-Demand Cloud Offering for Public, Private Sectors
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    Tom Frana: ViON Debuts On-Demand Cloud Offering for Public, Private Sectors

    ViON has unveiled a new cloud service designed to help government and commercial organizations secure information technology infrastructure through on-premise private cloud environments. The ViON on Demand program offers service level agreements for enterprise IT maintenance, upgrade and managed work, ViON said Thursday. Tom Frana, ViON’s CEO, said the company aims for clients to save […] More

  • Army Takes in Lockheed Digital Air Ground Integration Range; Jim Weitzel Comments
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    Army Takes in Lockheed Digital Air Ground Integration Range; Jim Weitzel Comments

    Lockheed Martin has delivered an initial digital air ground integration range to the U.S. Army‘s program executive office simulation, training and instrumentation at Fort Bliss, Texas. The company demonstrated the range in an arms live fire exercise during the government’s acceptance test, Lockheed said Thursday. “The digital air ground integration range offers more realistic training, helping soldiers, crews and platoons build […] More

  • Team DecisionSim to Develop Clinical Simulations for VA Training Program; James McGee Comments
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    Team DecisionSim to Develop Clinical Simulations for VA Training Program; James McGee Comments

    Team DecisionSim will continue to develop clinical simulations for the Veterans Affairs Department‘s simulation training and education program. VA has been applying the DecisionSim platform on patient safety, women’s health, palliative care, specialty care, team and communication skills training, human resources and operations areas, Decision Simulation said Wednesday. “We are excited about the VA’s continued expansion of DecisionSim and are honored to be a […] More

  • SAIC to OfferClients Bromium Security Tools; Charles Onstott Comments
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    SAIC to OfferClients Bromium Security Tools; Charles Onstott Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. will provide Bromium‘s vSentry and Live Attack Visualization Analysis endpoint security products to customers through SAIC’s CyberSecurity Edge offering. “The evolution of cyberattacks and advanced persistent threats are making traditional malware detection solutions less effective,” Charles Onstott, SAIC vice president for cloud, cyber and data science, said Thursday. He added that Bromium’s products work to leverage micro-virtualization […] More

  • IBM to Provide Data Center Space for Canadian Gov’t; David Anthony Comments
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    IBM to Provide Data Center Space for Canadian Gov’t; David Anthony Comments

    IBM‘s business arm in Canada will provide and operate data center space to Shared Services Canada in support of the Canadian government’s efforts to consolidate its data center infrastructure. “There’s never been a more important time for industry and government to share best-practices as Canada continues this important transformation and adapts to new trends like cloud, big data, […] More

  • Grant Thornton’s Philip Higginbotham: Businesses Need ‘Forward-Thinking’ Analytics Approach
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    Grant Thornton’s Philip Higginbotham: Businesses Need ‘Forward-Thinking’ Analytics Approach

    Philip Higginbotham, Grant Thornton’s national director of analytic services, has called on business leaders to “understand and implement a more sophisticated, forward-thinking form of analytics to get ahead.” Grant Thornton and the Financial Executives Research Foundation released on Tuesday a new report, which says organizations that adopt prescriptive data analytics improve their business performance. FERF and Grant Thornton conducted interviews with senior-level executives to […] More

  • Dynetics Lands Work on Raytheon USAF Radar Program; David King Comments
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    Dynetics Lands Work on Raytheon USAF Radar Program; David King Comments

    Dynetics will provide hardware development support to Raytheon for the U.S. Air Force‘s Three Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar program, which will replace the current AN/TPS-75 radar system. “We are proud to be one of Raytheon’s partners on this important project that will help protect our warfighters in the field,” Greg Lester – executive vice president for defense, space and intelligence programs at […] More

  • Louie Lombrardo: Lockheed, Northrop Eye 2016 to Finish SBIRS Satellite 4
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    Louie Lombrardo: Lockheed, Northrop Eye 2016 to Finish SBIRS Satellite 4

    The Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman team has delivered to the U.S. Air Force the payload for the next geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite of the Space Based Infrared System. SBIRS’ prime contractor Lockheed said Wednesday that the payload is fitted with a scanning sensor to perform wide-area surveillance of missile launch operations and a staring sensor to focus on smaller areas […] More

  • QinetiQ NA, Velodyne to Demo LiDAR-Equipped Robot at Industry Event
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    QinetiQ NA, Velodyne to Demo LiDAR-Equipped Robot at Industry Event

    Velodyne Lidar plans to integrate its remote sensing technology onto a QinetiQ North America-built unmanned ground system for a demonstration at an upcoming robotics conference in Boston. The companies will showcase Velodyne’s VLP-16 LiDAR Puck sensor mounted on QinetiQ NA’s TALON robot at the RoboBusiness forum to be held at Hynes Convention Center from Oct. […] More

  • Craneware Buys Kestros, Appoints Russ Rudish to Board; Keith Neilson Comments
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    Craneware Buys Kestros, Appoints Russ Rudish to Board; Keith Neilson Comments

    Craneware has bought Kestros Ltd. for $2.08 million in a move to bolster Craneware’s presence in the patient access market, Daily Record reported. Scott McCulloch writes that Edinburgh-based medical billing software developer Craneware plans to expand the use of Kestros’ technology platform from the National Health Service Trusts to the growing healthcare market. “This investment […] More