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  • MarkLogic Inks NoSQL Database Marketing Deal With Transputec; Adrian Carr Comments
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    MarkLogic Inks NoSQL Database Marketing Deal With Transputec; Adrian Carr Comments

    MarkLogic and Transputec Computers PLC have agreed to offer MarkLogic’s NoSQL database platform to U.K.-based enterprise customers under a joint sales channel agreement. The NoSQL technology works to help businesses build applications and manage big data from both structured and unstructured sources, according to a MarkLogic statement. “Working with Transputec, we plan to help organisations in […] More

  • NetApp Starts Construction on Int’l R&D Center; George Kurian Comments
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    NetApp Starts Construction on Int’l R&D Center; George Kurian Comments

    NetApp broke ground on a research and development center in Mahadevapura, India intended to support global development and business operations, according to an InformationWeek article. The facility is scheduled to be completed in 2015 and will contain 25,000 square foot data center on a 15 acre plot. “To enable increasingly multidisciplinary and collaborative work, we want to […] More

  • Mark Settle, BMC Software CIO, Discusses the Consumerization of IT
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    Mark Settle, BMC Software CIO, Discusses the Consumerization of IT

    The challenges and changes in information technology in 2014 are not limited to Bring Your Own Device, data integration and cloud computing initiatives, according to an article written by Mark Settle, CIO at BMC Software. In the article posted on vmblog.com, he writes that the consumerization of IT is having a profound impact on the different offerings available […] More

  • Romy Olaisen: Harris to Start NOAA Satellite Part Deliveries This Year
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    Romy Olaisen: Harris to Start NOAA Satellite Part Deliveries This Year

    Harris Corp. has started to deliver hardware and software systems for installation in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite network after the equipment passed a pre-shipment review. Those systems will be used to build the ground segment for NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R series program, Harris said Thursday. “We have worked closely with NOAA […] More

  • Roger Flanagan: Lockheed to Promote Clean Energy Development in Southeastern US
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    Roger Flanagan: Lockheed to Promote Clean Energy Development in Southeastern US

    Lockheed Martin and the Tennessee Valley Authority will be working together to encourage industrial and commercial entities across the southeastern U.S. to invest in clean energy. Lockheed’s energy solutions business will offer smart energy management, systems engineering and operations support services to TVA and utilities through the program, Lockheed said Wednesday. “We will manage incentive […] More

  • Exelis Receives Army Helicopter Radio Order; Nick Bobay Comments
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    Exelis Receives Army Helicopter Radio Order; Nick Bobay Comments

    Exelis will build voice communications radios for installation on the U.S. Army’s Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters under a $10.9 million contract awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency. The ARC-201D airborne radio system is designed with networking and anti-jamming systems, Exelis said Thursday. Nick Bobay, president of Exelis’ night vision and communications services division, said the radio […] More

  • Lockheed and IBM to Invest in Israeli Cyber Facilities
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    Lockheed and IBM to Invest in Israeli Cyber Facilities

    Lockheed Martin and IBM have moved to invest in cyber research facilities in Israel, Homeland Security Today reported Wednesday. The new CyberSpark complex located in Beer-Sheva, Israel, will house cyber incubators, academic researchers, educational centers and government agencies, according to the report. Those organizations will work to develop cybersecurity infrastructures such as a physical space and […] More

  • QinetiQ NA to Develop Naval Oceanography Mapping, Prediction Models; Dave Shrum Comments
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    QinetiQ NA to Develop Naval Oceanography Mapping, Prediction Models; Dave Shrum Comments

    QinetiQ North America has won a $12 million contract to develop mapping and prediction models for the Naval Research Laboratory‘s oceanography programs. QNA will build ocean modeling, remote sensing and physical oceanography systems under the three-year contract, QNA said Wednesday. “We have over 25 years of expertise in ocean modeling and related support, and we appreciate […] More

  • Tetra Tech to Help Army Corps of Engineers Build Military Facilities
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    Tetra Tech to Help Army Corps of Engineers Build Military Facilities

    Tetra Tech has been awarded a potential five-year, $60 million contract to provide engineering and architectural services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. USACE intends for the company to help plan, design and run military construction projects in U.S. and overseas locations, Tetra Tech said Thursday. The single-award, indefinite-delivery contract has a one-year base […] More

  • WBB Team to Support Marine Corps Info Operations; David Wilkinson Comments
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    WBB Team to Support Marine Corps Info Operations; David Wilkinson Comments

    Whitney, Bradley & Brown has won a potential three-year, $13.9 million contract to provide support services to a U.S. Marine Corps data operations unit, SEAPOWER Magazine reported Tuesday. The magazine reports WBB will lead a team that includes ManTech International and OSU-University Multispectral Laboratories to work with the USMC Information Operations Center in Quantico, Va. David […] More

  • Northrop Awards Multiple STEM Grants in Salt Lake City; Jim Lupica Comments
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    Northrop Awards Multiple STEM Grants in Salt Lake City; Jim Lupica Comments

    Northrop Grumman has awarded grants, worth nearly $7,000, for two science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs in Salt Lake City, UT. One grant is meant for the development and promotion of two educational programs for young people and the other to provide job training for adults ages 18 to 30, Northrop Grumman announced Wednesday. “Northrop […] More