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Boeing has stacked two small-platform 702SP satellites that the company will launch early next year under a joint satellite configuration that uses an all-electric propulsion system. The pairing is also part of preparations for the launch of ABS-3A and Eutelsat 115 West B, another set of satellites that does not use chemical propulsion, Boeing said Wednesday. The company’s network and space systems […] More
General Dynamics has deployed version 11-S of its Trusted Network Environment software to the U.S. Central Command to facilitate the exchange of Secret-level classified information between the U.S. military and international coalition partners. The company said Wednesday the cyber defense tool leverages user access privileges and security credentials as well as data labeling and content inspection technology to manage authorized access, […] More
The Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft is set for space launch on Dec. 4 to test its heat shield, parachutes, avionics and attitude control systems. The spacecraft arrived at NASA‘s Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it was lifted 200 feet onto a United Launch Alliance rocket, NASA said Wednesday. “We’ve put a lot […] More
Mercedes Westcott leads the public sector business at software development company Cloudera in her vice president role there. Her GovCon career includes stops at Delphix as that company’s public sector VP and VP of security software at HP Enterprise Services, which she joined upon that company’s buy of ArcSight. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Westcott discusses the adoption […] More
CTI Resource Management Services has chosen Deltek to help with enterprise resource planning using its Costpoint in the Cloud system. Deltek said Tuesday that CTI envisions Deltek Costpoint as providing structure to the Jacksonville, Florida-based government contractor’s operations in the areas of workforce and financial management, reporting and compliance. Deltek’s cloud ERP system works to […] More
Pitney Bowes will provide mail processing and document management technology for the U.S. Citizens and Immigration Services under a new $1.4 million contract award from the Department of Homeland Security. The project includes software for digital file and print queue handling, printers and inserters for two USCIS communications processing centers, and postage meters to aid […] More
Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a six-year, $20 million contract to help the Texas Department of Transportation oversee design-build and public-private partnership projects across the state. Jacobs said Tuesday it will implement design, construction oversight and owner verification testing procedures for the department under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. “Using lessons learned from our work on the Dallas-Fort Worth Connector, Chisholm […] More
A Cubic Corp. subsidiary has licensed an Epic Games product from Applied Research Associates to develop training simulation tools for warfighters. Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 and 4 will incorporate C++ source code for Cubic Advanced Learning Solutions to build a virtual training environment, Cubic said Wednesday. “The Unreal Government Network gives us access to a professional-grade ecosystem of resources that includes […] More
Cisco has added an Internet of Things focus to its channel partner program in an effort to help Cisco partners identify opportunities in the IoT technology market. Steve Benvenuto, Cisco senior director of business development, writes Thursday the company launched three specialization programs designed to offer collaborators IoT-specific tools and training. The company will offer […] More
Delphix has joined the Dell Cloud Marketplace as it targets performance and data management gains for clients with public and hybrid cloud setups. The virtual data solutions company said its participation will provide IT managers and developers an opportunity to seamlessly move, distribute and retrieve data, Delphix said Nov. 5. The Dell Cloud Marketplace self-service […] More
A.J. Clark, president of Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, has outlined what he sees as benefits of geospatial big data to different commercial markets and the federal government. Clark wrote in a Defense Systems op-ed posted Monday that agencies can use commercial data to monitor trends and patterns instead of through their own sensors. He cited the geospatial imagery DigitalGlobe provides to the National Geospatial-Intelligence […] More
IBM has debuted an entrepreneurial program with the goal of helping technology startups and developers access cloud development tools and bring new offerings to the cloud market more quickly. The Global Entrepreneur Program for Cloud Startups initiative gives entrepreneurs a chance to leverage a suite of IBM platforms designed to help users build cloud-based applications […] More
