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  • COPT Sells White Marsh Properties for $28M
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    COPT Sells White Marsh Properties for $28M

    Corporate Office Properties Trust has sold eight properties in the White Marsh region of Baltimore, Maryland and accumlated $28 million in revenue. The move to dispose the assets is part of the real estate investment trust’s strategy to provide its core holdings more room to perform in the company portfolio, COPT said Thursday. The transactions involved two buildings along […] More

  • Verizon’s Kevin King: Cloud Investments Focused on Financial, Supply Chain ERP Tools
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    Verizon’s Kevin King: Cloud Investments Focused on Financial, Supply Chain ERP Tools

    Businesses should strategically think through cloud technology options before making an investment, Kevin King, director of corporate communications at Verizon Enterprise, wrote in a Wednesday blog post. King says that enterprise resource planning applications for financial and supply chain management account for a large percentage of cloud deployments and such investing behavior will likely to continue going […] More

  • Textron-AirLand JV Demos Scorpion Aircraft at Kansas National Guard Exercise
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    Textron-AirLand JV Demos Scorpion Aircraft at Kansas National Guard Exercise

    A joint venture between Textron Inc. and AirLand Enterprises LLC has kicked off operational testing for its reconnaissance aircraft during a Northern Command and Kansas National Guard training exercise. Textron AirLand LLC’s Scorpion aircraft provided multi-spectral full motion video and communications with other aircraft and ground stations at VIGILANT GUARD 2014 from Aug. 4 to […] More

  • Gerald Cohen: Information Builders Partners With Arrow to Extend BI Offering
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    Gerald Cohen: Information Builders Partners With Arrow to Extend BI Offering

    Information Builders and Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions have forged a partnership in which Arrow will market Information Builders’ business intelligence service offering. The business computing provider will distribute Information Builders’ WebFOCUS Express offering, Information Builders said Wednesday. Gerald Cohen, president and CEO of Information Builders, said the companies intend for the partnership “to extend the […] More

  • Airbus Demos Automatic Airport Threat Detection System; Michael Cosentino Comments
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    Airbus Demos Automatic Airport Threat Detection System; Michael Cosentino Comments

    Airbus‘ defense and space division has completed a demonstration of its SONEX-P system that the company built for airport authorities, law enforcement units and homeland security agencies to use to detect and identify explosives, chemical and other airport threats. Michael Cosentino, president of Airbus Defense and Space, said Thursday that the auto-detection system aims to provide greater safety for […] More

  • Juniper Research Forecasts Location Services Market to Hit $43.3B by 2019
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    Juniper Research Forecasts Location Services Market to Hit $43.3B by 2019

    Juniper Research has released a forecast report that projects the location-based services market to grow to a total revenue of $43.3 billion by 2019 from the approximately $12.2 billion recorded in 2014. Context aware ad-supported apps will drive more than two-thirds of the mobile context and location services market’s revenues by 2019, Juniper Research said Thursday. Local search apps […] More

  • Northrop to Build Army Black Hawk’s Avionics System; Ike Song Comments
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    Northrop to Build Army Black Hawk’s Avionics System; Ike Song Comments

    Redstone Defense Systems has selected Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to modernize the digital cockpit of the U.S. Army‘s new fleet of Black Hawk helicopters. Northrop will work to produce and integrate the avionics system of UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters in order to replace analog gauges of the legacy model, Northrop said Friday. “We are committed to this […] More

  • Lockheed Chooses Apptricity Supply Chain Tools for Asset Tracking, Maintenance
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    Lockheed Chooses Apptricity Supply Chain Tools for Asset Tracking, Maintenance

    Lockheed Martin has selected Apptricity’s software product to help managed assets and work orders at C130J Super Hercules facilities. The software is built to automate asset tracking of maintenance equipment and hardware and computers for aircrew training using RFID applications and other technologies, Apptricity said Thursday. This includes management tools for supply chain operations such as inventory […] More

  • DRS’ SIGINT Technology Expo to Feature New Radio Tuner; Kerry Rye Comments
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    DRS’ SIGINT Technology Expo to Feature New Radio Tuner; Kerry Rye Comments

    DRS Technologies‘ Signal Solutions segment will unveil the Polaris radio frequency tuner, which will serve cognitive radio networks and other commercial applications, at the company’s 37th annual SIGINT Technology Exposition in September. DRS said Wednesday the VHF/UHF tuner provides capabilities for spectrum monitoring and RF interference detection, beam forming, signal intelligence and wideband spectral sensing. Kerry Rye, director of […] More

  • FAA Certifies Avionica-Made Satlink Communications Module
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    FAA Certifies Avionica-Made Satlink Communications Module

    The Federal Aviation Administration has approved an Avionica-made satellite data link platform for installation on Boeing 777 commercial planes. Avionica said Thursday it obtained an FAA supplemental type certificate for the company’s Iridium-based satLINK MAX flight communications technology. The clearance indicates that Avionica’s platform meets RTCA/DO-262A design standards for aircraft voice and data systems designed […] More

  • Interactive Intelligence Group Comms Software Receives JITC Certification
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    Interactive Intelligence Group Comms Software Receives JITC Certification

    Interactive Intelligence Group has obtained a certification from the Joint Interoperability Test Command for the companys Internet protocol-based communications software offering. BROOKMAN LLC assisted Interactive Intelligence in the certification process for the fourth version of its Customer Interaction Center suite’s sixth update, Interactive Intelligence said Thursday. “CIC’s JITC certification helps government agencies speed sales cycles […] More