NASA put three sections of its Goddard Space Flight Center software patents up for auction on March 29, Wired reports. The space agency put software development patents, autonomic computing and autonomic safety systems patents up for grabs at the ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction. NASA sold the development patents for $75,000, according to Wired. The [...]
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The Federal Aviation Administration expects to expand a pilot program and grant all employees the ability to use iPads in a production environment, InformationWeek reports. The agency has approved 1,100 employees for tablets under the pilot program, which has been up and running since January 2011. According to InformationWeek, the program has helped the agency develop [...]
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The Air Force is contemplating using cloud computing as it is set to shift one million unclassified network users from desktops to thin clients, NextGov reports. The Air Force Space Command, the branch’s service network manager, said last month it was considering moving to thin or zero clients. Those clients store applications on remote servers instead [...]
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Northrop Delivers F-35 Fuselage to Lockheed From New Assembly Line Approach
April 3, 2012 No CommentNorthrop Grumman Corp. has delivered the 70th F-35 center center fuselage to the fighter jet’s prime contractor Lockheed Martin, the company announced Monday. This fuselage is the first produced using the integrated assembly line approach at the company’s Palmdale, Calif., site. Michelle Scarpella, F-35 program vice president, said this approach is a new way of [...]
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The Marine Corps wants mobile platforms that can access multiple secure and unclassified networks, GCN reports. The service branch said it wants industry help in developing and testing commercial smartphones and tablets that access the networks, according to a solicitation request on FedBizOpps. The Marines will develop a government-industry consortium responsible for setting mobile standards [...]
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NASA has launched an Oriole rocket produced by Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc.’s rocket support services business unit. The company NASA launched five rockets total from Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. as part of a high-altitude jet stream experiment. Once launched, the rockets released chemical tracers which resembled while clouds in order [...]
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