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Deltek forecasts that state and local government agencies will increase spending on information technology products and services by more than 3 percent annually over the next five years, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Chris Dixon, a senior manager at the Herndon-based market analysis firm, estimates IT investments at the state and local levels to grow […] More
General Dynamics Information Technology will build, install and operate the state of Massachusetts’ next 911 system that the company will design to integrate geographical information system data into emergency service requests. The company intends to help emergency response personnel both map a caller’s location and then route calls and corresponding information to public answering points through the […] More
Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, says the health information technology and cybersecurity areas present the company with opportunities for growth in the federal market, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Amrita Jayakumar writes that Asbury told the Post in a phone interview the company also wants to acquire businesses that specialize in health IT, […] More
Lockheed Martin is working with the Defense Department and F-35 suppliers to lower operation and maintenance costs for the fighter program over the next 50 years, Reuters reported Thursday. Andrea Shalal writes that Lockheed officials recently met with representatives from DoD and 90 key F-35 suppliers in Fort Worth, Texas to brainstorm cost reduction ideas. […] More
A Forrester Consulting study says that three organizations have achieved a lower cost of technology ownership from implementing an Oracle database software in conjunction with a Verizon cloud platform. George Koroneos, an online media manager at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, wrote Thursday the Verizon-commissioned research sought to analyze how subscription-based licensing of Oracle Database on Verizon Cloud […] More
A MarketsandMarkets report estimates the value of the worldwide government cloud market to be $18.48 billion by 2018, up from $2.87 billion last year. The research firm said Thursday it predicts North America will be the largest regional market for cloud computing platforms designed for government organizations through 2018. Federal, state and local government agencies […] More
DynCorp International has helped NASA rebuild the WB-57 aircraft as part of the agency’s Aircraft Maintenance Operational Support program in a move to revive the plane 40 years of extended storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. DynCorp said Thursday that the team worked with mechanics, engineers, logisticians and other specialists as they reconstructed the aircraft – now known as N927 – and addressed issues […] More
Four contractors met with NASA throughout July to discuss updates on space capsules they are developing under a second round of the agency’s Commercial Crew Development competition. NASA said Thursday it holds regular meetings with Boeing, Sierra Nevada Corp., SpaceX and Blue Origin to review the companies’ work on spacecraft systems and launch vehicles. “These […] More
Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force have completed flight test of an anti-radiation missile designed to help reduce fratricide risks. The updated High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile was fired from an F-16 aircraft to target an emitter outside an exclusion zone that also contained another radiating emitter, Raytheon said Friday. The HARM control section modification engaged the right emitter by […] More
John Slye, an advisory research analyst at Deltek, projects USAID and the State Department to respectively spend 38 percent and 35 percent of their IT contracting budgets in September as the fiscal year closes. Slye writes Thursday that the above two agencies lead the 25 federal organizations that are likely to spend a total of $17.3 billion on IT […] More
In-Q-Tel has invested an undisclosed amount in technology startup Newlans to help the latter company further develop radio frequency modules for wireless communication devices. “The Newlans approach represents a step forward in analog signal processing technology,†Megan Anderson, vice president of IQT’s field deployable technologies practice, said Thursday. Anderson added the company sees Newlans-designed tunable […] More
Boeing has evaluated the safety features of a commercial spacecraft the company is building for NASA‘s human flight missions into low-Earth orbit. The company said Thursday it conducted the CST-100 hazard analysis to identify possible life-threating risks and ensure that capsule design is safe. CST-100 would transport up to seven astronauts and cargo to the […] More
