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  • Oracle, Informatica Integrate Data Management Products; Scott Tracy, Amit Walia Comment
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    Oracle, Informatica Integrate Data Management Products; Scott Tracy, Amit Walia Comment

    Oracle PartnerNetwork member Informatica has integrated its Data Archive Smart Partitioning tool with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances for data management functions such as storage tiering, compression, data set optimization and archiving. Amit Walia, senior vice president and general manager of Informatica’s ILM business unit, said Thursday  the partnership intends to address customer concerns regarding performance and access as their data management […] More

  • Amazon Web Services Partner Net Adds XO Communications; Don MacNeil Comments
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    Amazon Web Services Partner Net Adds XO Communications; Don MacNeil Comments

    XO Communications has become a member of the Amazon Web Services Partner Network to offer AWS Direct Connect network users access XO’s Enterprise Ethernet and Intelligent WAN product portfolio. XO said Wednesday it aims to give AWS Direct Connect users secure connections of between 1 and 10 gigabytes per second, as well as application visibility for cloud-based enterprise applications. Don MacNeil, XO chief […] More

  • Lockheed to Start Asteroid Explorer Spacecraft Construction; Rich Kuhns Comments
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    Lockheed to Start Asteroid Explorer Spacecraft Construction; Rich Kuhns Comments

    Lockheed Martin will start building a spacecraft that NASA will use to collect particles from a near-Earth asteroid and return those samples to the planet for analysis. An independent review panel has validated Lockheed’s design plan for the spacecraft, instruments and ground system under NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer program, Lockheed said […] More

  • Daniel Keefe: ManTech to Help Navy Personnel Train on Computer-, Web-Based Platform
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    Daniel Keefe: ManTech to Help Navy Personnel Train on Computer-, Web-Based Platform

    ManTech International has been awarded a $33.6 million contract to provide training resources for U.S. Navy personnel stationed in remote locations. Daniel Keefe, president and chief operating officer of ManTech’s mission services group, said Thursday the company will continue to help the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific use the company’s computer- and web-based training […] More

  • NTT Communications Releases Virtual Desktop Cloud Infrastructure
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    NTT Communications Releases Virtual Desktop Cloud Infrastructure

    NTT Communications Corp. has introduced a virtual desktop product with the aim of helping enterprise clients integrate computing systems into a standardized cloud environment. The Enterprise Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is built to help organizations manage, secure and access overseas information technology assets from within the U.S., NTT said Thursday. According to NTT, the platform gives […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Hands Assault Ship ‘America’ to Navy
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    Huntington Ingalls Hands Assault Ship ‘America’ to Navy

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding division has turned over the assault ship America to the U.S. Navy after the completion of sea trials in February. The commissioning crew will then begin shipboard training before the ship’s sail-away and America’s commissioning is scheduled for later this year in San Francisco, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. America is built […] More

  • Saab, Mxi Technologies Forge Military Fleet Mgmt Alliance
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    Saab, Mxi Technologies Forge Military Fleet Mgmt Alliance

    Saab and maintenance, repair and overhaul software firm Mxi Technologies have partnered to offer military fleet management services for defense customers around the world. on an integration of the former’s technical and logistics services and the latter’s Maintenix solution. The companies said Thursday they will integrate Saab’s technical and logistics services with Mxi’s Maintenix software and focus on “as […] More

  • Ray O. Johnson: Lockheed to Back Aerospace R&D Projects at Korean Universities
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    Ray O. Johnson: Lockheed to Back Aerospace R&D Projects at Korean Universities

    Lockheed Martin will establish an investment fund in Korea to help local universities research and develop aviation and spaceflight technologies, Korea Times reported Thursday. Park Ji-won writes that Lockheed has launched an open science and technology competition and is accepting R&D proposals in nanotechnology and renewable energy generation for aerospace applications. “Through direct investment and […] More

  • Ubisense to Support Savi Technology for Military Logistics Contract; Richard Green Comments
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    Ubisense to Support Savi Technology for Military Logistics Contract; Richard Green Comments

    Ubisense will deliver its location intelligence systems to support Savi Technology‘s five-year contract for global asset planning and logistics tracking services to agencies such as the Defense Department, U.S. Coast Guard and NATO. “This contract signals a valuable opportunity for government agencies to significantly improve a variety of asset planning and logistics-related functions,” Richard Green, Ubisense CEO, said Wednesday. Savi […] More

  • DynCorp to Help Manage Army Depot Supply Parts; Jim Myles Comments
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    DynCorp to Help Manage Army Depot Supply Parts; Jim Myles Comments

    DynCorp International has received a $5 million task order to help the U.S. Army maintain its aviation repair parts supply at a depot in Corpus Christi, Texas. The Logistics Worldwide contract contains a one base period and four one-year options, the company said Thursday. DynCorp will support the collection, warehousing, inspection, failure analysis, repair development and restoration of supply […] More

  • L-3 Communications Subsidiary Expands Texas Operations
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    L-3 Communications Subsidiary Expands Texas Operations

    An L-3 Communications division has kicked off plans to expand operations in Arlington, Tx. with up to $17 million in investments, My Arlington Texas reported Wednesday. L-3 Link intends to refurbish its properties at 2115 E. Randol Mill Road and 2200 Arlington Downs, as well as to build a new facility at 2215 E. Randol […] More

  • Dewey Houck: Boeing to Attend GEOINT Symposium
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    Dewey Houck: Boeing to Attend GEOINT Symposium

    Boeing is attending the GEOINT Symposium in Tampa, Fla. from April 14 to April 17 to showcase its latest data analysis tools, geolocating systems and communications capabilities for the defense, intelligence and national security industries. Boeing will focus various offerings, such as the DataMaster 5.3, Hardware Hall and TAC+ and Mobile TAC, at booth 5007, […] More