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  • Marillyn Hewson Highlights Lockheed STEM, Collaboration Initiatives
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    Marillyn Hewson Highlights Lockheed STEM, Collaboration Initiatives

    Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, has outlined the company’s planned strategy for technology initiatives as she encouraged collaboration and innovation among Lockheed’s engineering, scientific and technical workforce. The company said Wednesday Hewson also pointed to new education efforts on science, technology, engineering and math during an address at the Lockheed Martin Fellows Conference. “Together, we envision a […] More

  • NetApp Rolls Out New Storage Software for Hybrid Cloud
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    NetApp Rolls Out New Storage Software for Hybrid Cloud

    NetApp has introduced a new cloud-enabled object storage product that aims to help organizations manage large amounts of unstructured data securely and cost-effectively. NetApp StorageGRID Webscale supports Amazon Web Services and SNIA cloud data managers, can hold 100 billion objects and can place data automatically, NetApp said Tuesday. Dan Neault, senior vice president for data center […] More

  • Boeing Subcontracts Dynetics to Build SLS Hardware, Simulators; David King Comments
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    Boeing Subcontracts Dynetics to Build SLS Hardware, Simulators; David King Comments

    Boeing has chosen aerospace engineering firm Dynetics to provide a thrust vector control exhaust gas heat exchanger and three structural simulators for the NASA Space Launch System program. Dynetics said Wednesday it will manufacture the flight hardware and simulation platforms for the SLS core stage at its Huntsville, Alabama facility, and then deliver the systems […] More

  • Boeing Leases Space for SC Research, Tech Hub; Candy Eslinger Comments
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    Boeing Leases Space for SC Research, Tech Hub; Candy Eslinger Comments

    Boeing has leased office and laboratory space in North Charleston, South Carolina for a planned research and technology center the company plans to open within its current quarter, the Charleston Regional Business Journal reported Tuesday. Liz Segrist writes that the future Boeing Research & Technology – South Carolina facility covers an area of 100,000 square feet […] More

  • Northrop Completes Design Review Series on AESA F-16 Radars; Jeff Leavitt Comments
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    Northrop Completes Design Review Series on AESA F-16 Radars; Jeff Leavitt Comments

    Northrop Grumman has completed a series of engineering and manufacturing development design reviews on its active electronically scanned array radar that will replace legacy radar systems on Lockheed Martin‘s F-16 aircraft. Northrop said Wednesday that Lockheed chose the AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar under separate F-16 upgrade programs to replace the radars used by U.S. and Taiwanese soldiers. Jeff […] More

  • BAE, Patria Plan Joint Bid for Australia Combat Vehicle Program
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    BAE, Patria Plan Joint Bid for Australia Combat Vehicle Program

    BAE Systems and Helsinki-based Patria have agreed to lodge a joint bid for the Land 400 Phase 2 Defence program, Australia’s future combat vehicle project. The anticipated Land 400 platform looks to upgrade the allied nation’s fleet of land armored vehicles to augment its national defense strategy, BAE said Monday. Under their teaming agreement, BAE […] More

  • Exelis Imaging System Captures California Forest Fire; Rob Mitrevski Comments
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    Exelis Imaging System Captures California Forest Fire; Rob Mitrevski Comments

    DigitalGlobe has released a new series images taken by its WorldView-3 satellite with the Exelis‘ shortwave infrared imager, which works to capture images through atmospheric conditions such as smoke. Exelis said Wednesday that the imaging system — which contains the SWIR, a telescope and sensors – captured the image of a forest fire at the Klamath National Forest in California through thick smoke. “SWIR can remove some […] More

  • Scott Greene: Lockheed’s Havoc Vehicle Goes Through 10-Day Off-Road Test
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    Scott Greene: Lockheed’s Havoc Vehicle Goes Through 10-Day Off-Road Test

    Lockheed Martin has completed an off-road test for its Havoc 8×8 Armored Modular Vehicle at the Butte Mountain Trail of the Nevada Automotive Test Center to validate its design and functions. “Over the course of 10 days of testing, we performed more than 40 test runs up and down the mountain while demonstrating the vehicle’s ride quality […] More

  • Pepco Stockholders OK Exelon Merger; Joseph Rigby Comments
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    Pepco Stockholders OK Exelon Merger; Joseph Rigby Comments

    Pepco Holdings‘ stockholders have approved the power provider’s proposed merger with Exelon Corp. The merger would combine Pepco Holdings’ Atlantic City Electric, Delmarva Power and Pepco electric and gas utilities and Exelon’s BGE, ComEd and PECO utilities,  Exelon said Tuesday. Exelon said the transaction is scheduled to complete in the second or third quarter of its 2015 fiscal year and […] More

  • Joseph Comberiate: APL Builds Model to Track RF Interference From ‘Space Bubbles’
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    Joseph Comberiate: APL Builds Model to Track RF Interference From ‘Space Bubbles’

    Phycisists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have developed a computer model to predict how radio interference source in the atmosphere could affect communications. APL physicists designed the model to detect the movement of “space bubbles” after they form and predict the plasma bubble’s course by collecting data from satellite-based systems and using wind models, Johns Hopkins APL […] More

  • Report: SPAWAR Eyes $17M Savings with Microsoft Cloud Email Platform
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    Report: SPAWAR Eyes $17M Savings with Microsoft Cloud Email Platform

    The U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command will launch a pilot program for reserve units to test a cloud-based Microsoft communication and collaboration system, Nextgov reported Tuesday. SPAWAR estimates adopting the Office 365 cloud email platform would save the organization almost $17 million over five years, according to the report by Bob Brewin. […] More

  • ReportsnReports Pegs Traffic Mgmt Market Growth at 36% Through 2019
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    ReportsnReports Pegs Traffic Mgmt Market Growth at 36% Through 2019

    ReportsnReports has released a new report that predicts the global traffic management market will reach $16.89 billion in value by 2019 from the $3.56 billion recorded in 2014, an increase of 36.5 percent. The report also contains analysis of market opportunity and technology adoption across cloud services, traffic management services and intelligent transport system, ReportsnReports said Monday. ReportsnReports cites North […] More