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The Javelin Joint Venture, backed by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, fired a Javelin missile from a remote weapon station integrated onto a wheeled vehicle at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed said Tuesday that the missile hit a T-62 tank target from a range of 1,000 meters during a demonstration of Javelin’s vehicle-launch feature to international customers that […] More
IBM has partnered with Applied Communication Sciences and AT&T to develop a technology that aims to reduce the provisioning time for cloud computing systems from days to seconds. The companies built the cloud-based architecture through a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s CORONET program, IBM said Tuesday. DARPA aims for the industry team to commercial the […] More
Douglas Steil, general manager of cybersecurity products at BAE Systems, said the company has updated its document manager with watermarking technology to further build up the security product’s features. The company worked on its SIBA data collaboration and dissemination tool in cooperation with Mach 1 Development, the maker of the DocuTRACER technology that tracks where each file was shared […] More
Lockheed Martin Flight Services has approved the use of DeLorme‘s inReach satellite communicators for support of the LMFS Adverse Condition Alerting Service and Surveillance-enhanced Search and Rescue services used by general aviation and military pilots. Once an inReach device in enrolled in the free program, pilots submitting flight plans with LMFS can receive ACAS alerts […] More
United Launch Alliance has launched the AFSPC-4 mission aboard a Delta IV rocket as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program to deliver military and government payloads to space. ULA said Tuesday that the launch, its 85th since December 2006, was supported by an Aerojet Rocketdyne engine and ATK rocket motors. “The ULA […] More
Government customers will be able to purchase unified products from GIS mapping software maker Esri and operational intelligence provider OSIsoft through the immixGroup marketplace. The two companies announced Tuesday that they have agreed to make their PI System and ArcGIS tools available under the General Services Administration’s IT Schedule 70 for commercial technology vendors. Esri and […] More
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will build components for the network communications element on GPS III space vehicles seven and eight under a $25 million full-production contract awarded by Lockheed Martin. The NCE components are built to help the satellites carry out communications functions and include the ground-to-space command and control channel, space-to-space inter-satellites and other communication […] More
Rockwell Collins and Sandia National Laboratories’ alliance will work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to integrate nanoscale architectures into military communication systems. The company said Tuesday the goal of DARPA’s Mesodynamic Architectures program is to develop a mesoscale method for building smaller technology for communication, electronic warfare and networking applications. “Once this is […] More
Microsoft and Akamai Technologies will work with venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners to construct an accelerator in Israel that will focus on helping startup cybersecurity firms in the country. Participants will receive professional sessions and active mentoring from JVP, who will invest in $1 million in one of the cybersecurity startups at the program’s end, Microsoft said Tuesday. “Tech […] More
A MicroMarket Monitor report forecasts the North American security and surveillance radar market to be worth up to $2.03 billion in 2019, a compound annual growth rate of 4.64 percent over the next five years. The market research firm said Sunday that the region would keep its status as the top spender on security and surveillance radar systems, […] More
Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $25 million prime contract from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to provide the Defense Logistics Agency – Energy with technical, systems engineering and management support. The company said Tuesday it will perform engineering analysis and advisory services on the Fuels Manager Defense leak detection systems of its […] More
Cubic‘s transportation systems business has won an $8 million contract from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to replace its paper magnetic farecard vending machines with SmarTrip sales and reload devices. The company said Monday it will convert at least 500 machines as WMATA seeks to completely modernize its fare system to the contactless smart card […] More
