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Symantec has rolled out a new data encryption portfolio that the company developed to help organizations secure their websites. The Encryption Everywhere package is designed to allow web hosting providers to encrypt online portals for enterprise clients, Symantec said Tuesday. “There are almost a billion websites today, yet only about 3 percent of those sites are encrypted, which means cybercriminals have been […] More
NASA has chosen four proposals to enter contract negotiations as part of a program to develop solar array technologies to operate in high-radiation and low-temperature environments for future deep space missions. The space agency said Tuesday initial contract awards have a value of $400,000 each and cover a nine-month period of design, testing and analysis work for the Game Changing Development program. […] More
Northrop Grumman has received a potential $11.6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s microsystems technology office to develop a miniaturized inertial measurement unit for navigational use. The company said Monday it aims to build a microelectromechanical system-based sensor IMU technology for the detection of angular motion and acceleration under DARPA’s Precise Robust Inertial Guidance for Munitions Navigation-Grade Inertial Measurement Unit project. Alex Fax, program director […] More
Raytheon will display its new gallium nitride-based Active Electronically Scanned Array main antenna designed to work with the Patriot air and missile defense system at the Association of the U.S. Army‘s Global Force Symposium and Exposition Tuesday through Thursday in Huntsville, Alabama. Raytheon said Monday the AESA main array is designed to provide 360-degree coverage enabled by smaller transmitters and replace the current […] More
Cole Engineering Services has landed a $67.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide a simulation software featuring theater-level air warfare environment for the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Training Toolkit program. The Defense Department said Friday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract was competitively procured with six proposals received. Work will occur in Orlando, Florida through Mar. 10, 2021 […] More
Security collaboration platform BlueLine Grid has received an additional round of investment funds from equity firm Bold Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. BlueLine Grid said Friday the funding from Bold Capital Partners follows investments from Motorola Solutions in December 2015 and intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel in May 2015. Double M Partners has also made an investment in BlueLine Grid within the […] More
UltiSat has been awarded a potential $4.1 million task order to provide Ku-frequency bandwidth support for the U.S. Pacific Command‘s fleet of Northrop Grumman-built Global Hawk unmanned air vehicles. The company said Wednesday the task order requires bandwidth support for GH Ku-band earth terminals and Tri-band Tactical Field Terminals at the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan and a […] More
Accenture has been awarded a multi-year contract from the London mayor’s policing and crime office and the city’s police agency to help manage the latter’s information technology infrastructure and applications inside the IT system. The company said Monday it aims to help London’s Metropolitan Police Service increase digital interactions between officers and civilians and expand the agency’s use of mobile […] More
SRI International will carry out pre-clinical studies on compounds and vaccines to determine if they can act as preventive agents against cancer under a $19.8 million contract with a National Institutes of Health center. The company said Thursday its biosciences division will work to examine the effectiveness of experimental vaccines and test biomarkers in an effort to parallel how the body responds […] More
Lockheed Martin and machine-to-machine communications firm ORBCOMM have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore business opportunities in the Internet of Things market. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company said Thursday it aims to utilize ORBCOMM’s technology portfolio and develop M2M satellite and cellular connectivity or hybrid offerings for government clients through the partnership. “The vision of the Internet of Things promises to change how […] More
NASA sent two Nodes small satellites to the International Space Station via an Orbital ATK cargo ressuply mission on Dec.6 to explore the potential of small, low-cost satellites in future missions. The agency said Wednesday the Nodes mission will deploy two identical 4.5 pound CubeSats into low-Earth orbit in mid-March to test their ability to receive and distribute commands from the ground as well as exchange […] More
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has started to test a Unisys-made facial and iris biometrics system at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego to study the accuracy and efficiency of biometric technologies in an outdoor environment. Unisys said Thursday CBP started conducting tests on selected non-citizens exiting the U.S in February and will continue to do so until May 2016. […] More
