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    Raytheon Taps Anaren for Navy Air, Missile Defense Radar Beamformer Tech

    Anaren will provide its beamformer technology to Raytheon under an $8.5 million subcontract for the engineering and manufacturing development stage of Raytheon’s contract to build the U.S. Navy‘s Air and Missile Defense Radar. The one-year subcontract covers work to design and assemble the beamformer and is part of the AMDR program’s potential 10-year, $110 million low-rate initial production […] More

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    Mutualink Offers Multimedia Emergency Comm for K-12 Schools; Mark Hatten Comments

    Mutualink has launched a multimedia communications technology to assist emergency management at public, private and parochial K-12 schools by setting a direct link with first responders such as police, fire and medical services. Mutualink K12 unifies voice, data, video and text communications from radio, telephone, public address and other systems into one platform and enables real-time resource sharing with emergency […] More

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    Isometrics Taps Eaton for Army Modular Fuel System Components

    Eaton will provide Isometrics with ground-fueling components of tank rack modules that are part of the modular fuel systems Isometric manufactures under a contract with the U.S. Army. Eaton said Friday the modular fuel systems are designed to distribute and store fuel at any location without requirement material-handling equipment. The company’s modular fuel systems are built to carry 2,500 gallons […] More

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    Lockheed Tests Orion Avionics Systems; Cleon Lacefield Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed a series of tests on the Orion spacecraft’s avionics system, which is built to activate and send commands to at least 20 systems on the crew module during flight and re-entry. The company Orion’s thermal control, guidance and navigation, environmental control life support and other systems and analyzed the command signal, system responses […] More

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    Lockheed, Neya Systems to Integrate C2 Tech for Cargo-Delivery Drones; Jeffrey Poulin Comments

    Lockheed Martin will partner with Neya Systems to integrate a mission planning and management system with a military unmanned aerial vehicle that carries out casualty evacuation and cargo resupply missions in Afghanistan. Neya Systems said Monday the companies will install VERTI on the K-MAX delivery drone as part of a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research program. Dr. Jeffrey Poulin, a […] More

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    Teradata Releases Analytics Tool for Workflows; Scott Gnau Comments

    Teradata has released a new analytics tool that the company built to both utilize both traditional data warehousing technology and big data systems, ZDNet reported Monday. Larry Dignan writes QueryGrid was released at the Teradata Universe conference in Prague, Czech Republic. Scott Gnau, president of Teradata Labs, said customers want insights from data regardless of where […] More

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    Future Lockheed Navy Tech Center to Focus on Human-Machine Interfaces

    Lockheed Martin‘s mission systems and training unit will open a new facility later this year in Moorestown, N.J. to develop surface warfare combat systems, Seapower Magazine reported Friday.  Richard Burgess writes that Lockheed intends to focus on human-machine interfaces at the $3.5 million Surface Navy Innovation Center. Jim Sheridan, director of Aegis U.S. programs at […] More

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    Northrop, Air Force Demo Global Hawk’s SatCom Capabilities; Alfredo Ramirez Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command recently conducted ground and air demonstrations for the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. The demonstrations were held at Beale Air Force Base, Calif. in January to show split-link capability for mission data transmission separate from the command-and-control link, Northrop said Thursday. “We’re ecstatic with Global Hawk’s ability to provide […] More

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    Joe Kernan on NS2 Serves: SAP NS2’s IT Training Program for Military Veterans That Aims to Bridge the Gap Between Service and Employment

    This is the first part of interview with Joe Kernan, vice president of business development at SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2), on his company’s non-profit organization NS2 Serves, and its mission to train veterans in information technology and help them gain employment after service. To watch a video on the program that will air […] More

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    Siemens Mobile C-Arm Gets FDA Clearance; Laurie Fisher Comments

    Siemens‘ healthcare unit has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for the company’s mobile C-arm system, which is built with features designed to aid surgical teams during procedures or operations. The company said Wednesday the Cios Alpha works to generate high-resolution and high-contrast images, has a 25-kilowatt power output and flat-panel detector and has radiographic collimators. Laurie Fisher, VP for X-ray products […] More

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    Information Builders, Loqate Partner on BI Verification Tech; Gerald Cohen Comments

    Information Builders has partnered with address verification firm Loqate to incorporate the latter company’s verification and geocoding technology with Information Builders’ iWay product portfolio. The companies said Wednesday that the iWay Data Quality Suite, iWay Integration Suite and iWay Master Data Suite will use Loqate Verify and Loqate Geocode in work to process business data. “In today’s data-saturated landscape, ensuring the quality and accuracy of complex data sets is critical for intelligent and […] More

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    IBM Gets Patent for Cloud-Based Mobile Security Tech; Benjamin Fletcher Comments

    IBM has patented a cloud-based technology the company designed to secure data notifications across mobile devices and networks, as well to address concerns on privacy and confidentiality among developers, service providers and end users. The company built the tool to help developers create mobile applications for transmitting assigned message identifiers in the cloud to the user’s device, IBM said […] More