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  • Paul Lemmo: Lockheed, AeroVironment Forge UAS Development Alliance
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    Paul Lemmo: Lockheed, AeroVironment Forge UAS Development Alliance

    Lockheed Martin and AeroVironment have signed a global partnership agreement to jointly explore technologies such as atmospheric satellite systems for drones. The companies aim to integrate Lockheed’s mission and ground aircraft platforms with AeroVironment’s unmanned aerial system Global Observer, AeroVironment said Thursday. “We look forward to partnering with AeroVironment to potentially develop integrated solutions for the […] More

  • Siemens Passenger Rail Locomotive Enters Amtrak Service
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    Siemens Passenger Rail Locomotive Enters Amtrak Service

    Amtrak will start running a Siemens-made electric locomotive on the operator’s inter-city passenger rail lines beginning on Friday. Siemens and Amtrak executives celebrated the locomotive’s debut at a ceremony held Thursday on the 30th Street Amtrak station in Philadelphia, Siemens said Thursday. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx attended the unveiling. […] More

  • Airbus Defence and Space Unveils New Satellite Comms Offering; Danny Côté Comments
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    Airbus Defence and Space Unveils New Satellite Comms Offering; Danny Côté Comments

    Airbus Group’s defense and space business unit has introduced a fresh satellite communications offering for mining customers.< The Terralink Companion Quick Deploy 1.2m VSAT system is designed for various communication applications such as email, Internet, file transfer and voice calling through wired and wireless networks, Airbus said Thursday. Danny Côté, business communications enterprises lead of […] More

  • Raytheon’s UAV Control System Software to be Updated
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    Raytheon’s UAV Control System Software to be Updated

    Raytheon‘s tactical control system was designed to operate drones in all branches of the U.S. military and the TCS is now receiving a software upgrade, according to a Military Aerospace article. John Keller writes that Raytheon Technical Services is poised to switch the software on the control system from Solaris to Linux software as well as upgrade the […] More

  • Raytheon to R&D Cyber Strategies for DARPA; Jack Harrington Comments
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    Raytheon to R&D Cyber Strategies for DARPA; Jack Harrington Comments

    Raytheon will research and develop new cyber operations strategies for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program under a $9.8 million contract. The company will identify approaches that are intended to help Defense Department to execute and assess cyber missions under DARPA’s Plan X program, Raytheon said Thursday. Jack Harrington, vice president of cybersecurity and special […] More

  • Sidra Berman Promoted to Savi Marketing VP Post; Bill Clark Comments
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    Sidra Berman Promoted to Savi Marketing VP Post; Bill Clark Comments

    Sidra Berman, most recently head of market management operations at Savi Technology, has been promoted to serve as the company’s vice president of marketing. She will report directly to President and CEO Bill Clark and have responsibility for implementing strategies to help the company expand into new markets and build brand awareness, Savi said Wednesday. […] More

  • IBM Initiatives Target Next-Gen IT Workforce in Africa
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    IBM Initiatives Target Next-Gen IT Workforce in Africa

    IBM has launched several information technology programs in Africa to build a workforce with next-generation IT knowledge and skills and contribute to the continent’s economic development and growth, IBM said Thursday.  “Leaders in business, education and government agree that enabling the existing and future workforce to perform at the cutting edge of technology trends such as […] More

  • Robert Hoffman to Head Motorola Solutions’ Gov’t Affairs Org
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    Robert Hoffman to Head Motorola Solutions’ Gov’t Affairs Org

    Robert Hoffman, formerly government relations senior vice president at the Washington-based Information Technology Industry Council, has joined Motorola Solutions as corporate VP and government affairs lead. He will report directly to Mark Hacker, general counsel and SVP of legal and government affairs, and be based at Motorola Solutions’ office in Washington starting in March, Motorola Solutions […] More

  • Intel Announces Five New Board-Elected Corporate VPs
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    Intel Announces Five New Board-Elected Corporate VPs

    Intel’s board of directors has appointed five new corporate vice presidents with additional responsibilities in various business groups units within the company, Intel said Thursday.  As general manager of the wireless platform research and development group in the platform engineering group, Aicha Evans works on wireless engineering.  Suzan Miller and Steven Rodgers are both deputy […] More

  • Deborah Doyle McWhinney Appointed to Fluor’s Board of Directors; David Seaton Comments
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    Deborah Doyle McWhinney Appointed to Fluor’s Board of Directors; David Seaton Comments

    Deborah Doyle McWhinney, former CEO of CitiGroup‘s global enterprise payments business, has joined Fluor Corp.’s board of directors, Fluor said Thursday. Prior to Citi, McWhinney was president of Schwab Institutional, a division of Charles Schwab, Inc. where she was responsible for the global risk committee. “The perspectives we will gain from her experience in banking, finance and government […] More

  • Charlie Thomas: Real-Time Analytics Key to Customer Experience
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    Charlie Thomas: Real-Time Analytics Key to Customer Experience

    Mobile operators are increasingly looking to real-time analytics as a means to help customers address issues with their devices as service providers aim to proactively address those situations and deliver a positive customer experience, Razorsight CEO Charlie Thomas has told Pipeline. Action on the part of operators would occur before a customer files a complaint, […] More

  • Praescient Analytics, University Research Arm Hone on Super Bowl Sex Trafficking
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    Praescient Analytics, University Research Arm Hone on Super Bowl Sex Trafficking

    A team of Praescient Analytics researchers collaborated with a university research center during the week leading up to Sunday’s Super Bowl to study sex and drug trafficking in New Jersey and New York, Bloomberg reported Jan. 31. Michael Riley writes the company’s team worked to collect Internet data on telephone numbers and coded language used […] More