The FBI wants to add iris scan information to its database for tracking and identifying criminals, Nextgov reports. Aliya Sternstein reports the FBI is allocating $1 billion for the Next-Generation Identification System, a program to expand the server capacity of the bureau’s fingerprint database. Such a database would include iris scans, fingerprints, facial images and [...]
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A Federal Communications Commission-backed panel has made recommendations on minimum technical requirements for a nationwide first responders network, Fierce Government IT reports. The panel consisted of representatives from the private and public sectors, David Perera reported. It was created in early 2012 and tasked with establishing a nationwide public safety broadband network. The panel suggested [...]
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Northrop Engineers Test Webb Telescope Sunshield Orientation; Jim Flynn Comments
June 28, 2012 No CommentNorthrop Grumman engineers recently subjected the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield to orientation measurement tests, the company announced Wednesday. The company holds a contract from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. to design and develop Webb’s sunshield, telescope and spacecraft. According to the company, the tennis court-sized sunshield is designed to cool the [...]
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Raytheon has won an estimated $22 million contract to test and upgrade a sensor system for the Navy, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. The AN/AAS-44 Multi-spectral Targeting System-A/B is located at the Fleet Readiness Center Southeast in Jacksonville, Fla. MTS systems provide aerial platforms with an electro-optical and infrared full-motion video camera system for surveillance, acquisition, [...]
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Boeing recently demonstrated and tested propulsion features on an orbital control engine for the company’s commercial crew spacecraft, the company announced Wednesday. Tests occurred at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, part of the second phase of the agency’s Commercial Crew Development program. The company used space shuttle program equipment to assess the [...]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working to reuse old communication satellite parts through its Phoenix program, according to Wired. DARPA is also taking bids from commercial satellite manufacturers to provide a satellite for preliminary testing, according to Katie Drummond’s report. The Defense Department’s research arm wants the Phoenix program to service satellites using [...]
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