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Lockheed Martin has landed two contracts to produce and integrate Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods onto F-16 fighter planes operated by Romania’s and Thailand’s air forces. The company said Monday it will also perform initial sustainment work on F-16 ATPs for the two international military agencies. The Sniper works to identify and track small tactical targets […] More
Finmeccanica‘s Selex subsidiary has partnered with Northrop Grumman to market a Selex-designed infrared search and track sensor technology to defense customers in the U.S., Defense News reported Monday. Tom Kington writes a Northrop spokesperson told Defense News the company will provide details of the planned offering this month. Selex won contracts to built IRST systems […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed development and integration work on the Space-Based Infrared System‘s Increment 2 ground station and will move forward to certification tests for the U.S. Air Force space program. The company said Monday Increment 2 will command the combined infrared surveillance operations of the Defense Support Program, SBIRS geosynchronous orbit satellites and highly elliptical orbit payloads. “The transition […] More
LinQuest has secured a five-year, $42 million task order to provide consulting, systems engineering, intelligence gathering and technical acquisition services for the space situational awareness and advanced systems units of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Superiority Systems Directorate. The company will also perform baseline management, improvement planning, testing and assessment work for the military branch […] More
Northrop Grumman has agreed to invest $750,000 in Virginia Tech’s scholarship and faculty fellowship programs. The donation will go toward the university’s senior faculty fellowship in advanced intelligence systems and scholarship program in military leadership for the students of Corps of Cadets and College of Engineering, Virginia Tech said Thursday. “We expect that this initiative will contribute […] More
IBM has introduced a line of Power System servers and a range of storage systems designed to help clients facilitate processing of large-scale data in hybrid cloud settings. IBM Power System E850 can manage 4-terabyte databases, while IBM PurePower System can run with OpenStack open-source cloud computing software and has virtualization hypervisor with no record […] More
Elma Electronic has launched a series of Cisco-certified fanless routers designed to facilitate secure transmission of data, video and voice communications across wired and wireless systems during military, disaster recovery, emergency response and other mission-critical operations. The SWaP-optimized S50E-1 Rugged Cisco 5915 router is equipped with a rugged chassis design and three switching ports, while the […] More
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded $300,000 in total grants to six teams of developers and healthcare organizations that aim to live-test new health IT applications. The medical app developers were chosen and matched with healthcare providers through ONC’s Market R&D Challenge, according to a blog post published Tuesday […] More
Northrop Grumman will perform independent testing and evaluation of software and hardware for Minuteman III nuclear safety under a $99.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract covers nuclear safety cross-check analysis, performance analysis, technical evaluation and independent validation and verification. The tests will aim to ensure that the software […] More
CGI has been selected to refresh the information technology infrastructure of Highways England as the U.K. Transport Department’s agency transitions to a government-owned company. The company will supply laptops and tablets to Highways England under the three-year information and communications technology services contract, CGI said Monday. “We are delighted to have been awarded this strategic […] More
Stewart Room, head of cybersecurity and data protection for PwC‘s legal practice, has urged businesses in the Internet of Things market to build up their privacy and security measures, Computing reported Friday. “If any business gets this wrong, what they are running towards is a serious trust, confidence and legal crisis,” Room said at an event PwC co-hosted […] More
Hewlett Packard has received a five-year, $305 million contract extension to help run a web-based system for the California’s Welfare Client Data Systems consortium to manage public assistance services. The CalWORKS Information Network system is designed to manage approximately 40 percent of the entire welfare caseload in the state and process as many as 22 […] More
