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    Boeing Taps Universal Space Network for Comm Gateway; John Williams Comments

    Boeing has awarded SSC Group subsidiary Universal Space Network a five-year, $12 million contract to support Boeing’s commercial satellite services unit’s work on the Global Xpress program. USN said Thursday it will design and construct a Mil-Ka gateway and operate and maintain the system for the satellite program. “Our commercial approach allowed flexibility to meet changing requirements while maintaining a focus […] More

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    Boston Consulting Group: Gov’t Online Service Users Report ‘Relatively High Satisfaction Levels’

    The Boston Consulting Group has released a report indicating “relatively high satisfaction levels” globally among people using online government services in their country, following a survey of 12,450 digital service users, FierceGovernmentIT reported Wednesday. Dibya Sarkar writes that the respondents were from 12 countries and used 37 separate government services, with those from developed countries reporting […] More

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    Dan Kaufman: DARPA Working to Secure Internet of Things

    Dan Kaufman, DARPA‘s Information Innovation Office director, has revealed that the agency is looking into technology that will help secure the emerging Internet of Things, Gigaom reported Thursday. David Meyer writes Kaufman discussed such potential developments at the recent Gigaom Structure event in San Francisco attended by several technology industry leaders. Kaufman said DARPA is working on […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    Nathaniel Fick: Encourage Innovation to Secure Military Systems From Cyberwarfare

    Nathaniel Fick, chief executive of software and security solutions company Endgame, agrees with U.S. military officials and other cyber industry leaders that with the continued use of ever-evolving information and communications technology comes the threat of cyberwarfare, the Army News Service reported Monday. Fick and colleagues highlighted this vulnerability during a panel discussion at the […] More

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    Intelligent Decisions Acquires Intellectual Property Rights for Virtual Training Software

    IT contracting company Intelligent Decisions has bought intellectual property rights and assets to a Quantam 3D virtual training software, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Mohana Ravindranath writes that San Jose-based software company, Quantam 3D sold rights to its Expedition DI software line to Intelligent Decisions for an undisclosed amount. The product line includes technologies like […] More

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    Thales, Other Contractors to Bid on Potential French UAV Tender

    The Airbus Group‘s defense and space division and Textron have teamed to bid for a future tender offer by the French government for unmanned aerial vehicle technology, C4ISR & Networks reported Thursday. Pierre Tran writes the tender is expected in the second half of 2014 for awarding in 2015, with the Airbus Textron team facing competition from Safran‘s Sagem […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News

    NSA Adds NYU School of Engineering to Exclusive Cyber Security List

    The National Security Agency with United States Cyber Command recently recognized the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations, the first in New York to earn the title and one of few in the nation to receive all three Center of Excellence designations. Launched in 2012, the […] More

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    Siemens, TCS Unveil Solution to Automate Manufacturers’ Engineering Processes; ARC’s Ralph Rio Comments

    Siemens and Tata Consultancy Services have combined the former’s Rulestream software and the latter’s engineering solutions to develop ETO2Win for automating engineer-to-order manufacturing processes, the ARC Advisory Group posted Wednesday on its website. Dick Slansky writes the solution is designed to streamline business processes, from inquiry to quote and from order to release; manage manufacturing costs, margins and delivery; and […] More

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    Exelis to Provide San Francisco Airport with Surveillance Offerings; Ted Carinol Comments

    Exelis has been selected by San Francisco International airport to provide ground vehicle and aircraft surveillance offerings to improve airport safety. Exelis is set to provide SFO with its Symphony vehicle movement area transponder (VMAT) and Symphony MobileVue FAA-approved solutions, what is the sixth airport to use Exelis systems. Ted Carniol, general manager for commercial aviation solutions at Exelis, said that […] More

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    CrescoAg joins forces with Raytheon on Next-gen Agricultural Applications

    The CrescoAg Corporation and Raytheon Company said last week that they have joined forces on the development of next-generation technologies and analytics to increase productivity and streamline operations for agricultural producers. CrescoAg’s agricultural knowledge, farming expertise and relationships with crop farmers–paired with Raytheon’s abilities in engineering, climatic science, sensor technology and systems integration–will be a […] More

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    NSA Accredits 7 Companies for Cyber Incident Response Services

    The National Security Agency has issued cyber incident response assistance accreditation to seven companies under the National Security Cyber Assistance Program, the Defense Daily Network reported Wednesday. Following an assessment of 21 focus areas, such as incident analysis and network traffic data collection, the NSA accredited Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, CrowdStrike Services, FireEye, Mandiant, Maddrix and Verizon. NSA’s information assurance directorate also evaluated the […] More

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    DHS Set to Enter New Phase in HQ Construction

    The General Services Administration this week sought to move forward with the consolidation of the Department of Homeland Security into its new headquarters in southeast Washington, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Andy Medici writes the agency’s consolidation had been postponed due to congressional budget cuts, but now has a $140 million contract to start construction of the […] More