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Boeing has awarded an 18-month follow-on subcontract to Harris Corp. to build Ka-band antennas for a fourth satellite under Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress mobile broadband service program. Harris will supply Boeing with antennas designed to transmit signals from an Inmarsat satellite in orbit and enable wireless connectivity on deep-sea vessels and passenger aircraft, Harris said Monday. […] More
Accenture and SAP have formed a business solutions group to change the purchasing process for customers to acquire digital technologies in areas such as cloud computing, enterprise mobility and analytics. SAP said Monday the Accenture and SAP Business Solutions Group is a continuation of the companies’ Accenture Innovation Centers for SAP Solutions partnership, which works to combine […] More
Iridium Communications will help Rutgers University’s Coastal Ocean Observation Lab researchers collect data from a research project across five major ocean basins through the company’s satellite network. A team of Rutgers students and faculty will work to coordinate flights of autonomous underwater gliders worldwide with the goal of gathering undersea datasets in order to predict how […] More
Boeing collaborated with Wipro, HCL Technologies and the Indian Institute of Science to develop a wireless antenna and sensor system for commercial and noncommercial aircraft, CIOL reported Monday. The India-based Aerospace Network Research Consortium built the compact energy-gathering system to reduce airplane weight, fuel and power usage. Mike Sinnett, vice president of product development at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, […] More
The Energy Department has offered grants to help several technology organizations develop software products, sensors and predictive algorithms for managing the performance of lithium-ion batteries, Gigacom reported Wednesday. Katie Fehrenbacher writes Battelle designed an optical sensor that aims to detect internal battery faults, while General Electric built a miniaturized system to monitor battery pressure and […] More
Accenture and Samsung Electronics have partnered to help enterprise customers procure and implement Android devices that are built to support Samsung’s Knox mobile security platform, the Economic Times reported Friday. Harichandan Arakali writes the companies aim to offer pre-packaged software applications and managed service offerings through the partnership. Jin Lee, senior managing director at Accenture […] More
Informatica Corp. is working to help outsourced development services provider ICON Plc handle clinical trials and process data by using a multidomain master data management tool. ICON views information and works to unlock value by using the Informatica MDM service in order to execute clinical trial planning, services and reporting, Informatica said Thursday. Andrew Thompson, […] More
Unisys‘ subsidiary in Australia has been awarded a contract to continue providing information technology managed services to the country’s national auditing agency. The company said Monday it will extend its service desk hours the office’s mobile workforce and continue to help with services integration work and other IT activities. Scott Whyman, vice president and general […] More
FLIR Systems has elected Cathy Stauffer and Catherine Halligan to serve on the company’s board of directors, effective immediately. The appointments bring the total number of board directors to 10 and eight of them are independent, the company announced Thursday. Halligan is also an independent director and a member of the audit committee of Ulta […] More
Ray Oleson, co-founder of Salient Federal Solutions and the company’s board chairman since 2009, died on March 3. “Oleson was a prized friend and mentor. Our hearts go out to Ray’s family and colleagues in this time of sadness. He will be dearly missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.” said Bill Parker, Salient chief […] More
The Northrop Grumman-built X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System for the U.S. Navy has won Aviation Week’s Laureate Award in the aeronautics and propulsion category. Northrop received the award at a Thursday event at the National Building Museum in Washington, the company announced Friday. According to Northrop, the X-47B UCAS is the first tailless drone to […] More
McAfee and Topia Technology have partnered to develop an integrated product for organizations to store, analyze and share documents from a mobile device or a cloud computing platform. The offering unifies McAfee’s Enterprise Security Manager and Topia’s Secure Fabric Platform for Enterprise and was built through a McAfee-led security innovation alliance, Topia said Thursday. “We […] More
