Lockheed-Run NNSA Lab Builds Insulated Android Net for Security Study; David Fritz Comments
October 3, 2012 No CommentResearchers at a National Nuclear Security Administration laboratory run by a Lockheed Martin subsidiary recently built an insulated network of 300,000 Android devices, aiming to study smartphone networks’ reliability and security. Sandia National Laboratories, run by Sandia Corp., announced it wants to eventually create a software tool for cyber research community to model similar environments [...]
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Harris Develops Android LTE Smartphone for First Responders; Steve Marschilok Comments
October 2, 2012 No CommentHarris Corp. has developed a smartphone designed for first responders that runs on public or private Long Term Evolution networks, the company announced Friday. InTouch RPC-200, is an interoperable, Android-based smartphone that runs third-party applications acquired from the Android Play Store. Steve Marschilok, president of safety and professional communications, said in a release the InTouch [...]
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Raytheon Co. has won a $29,836,354 U.S. Air Force contract to develop equipment receiver cards for “next generation GPS” users. The Massachusetts-based contractor will perform work on the contract in El Segundo, Calif., with the Pentagon expecting work to be completed by Oct. 28, 2014. SMC/PKP at Los Angeles Air Force Base is the contracting [...]
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NASA is preparing its astronauts for an asteroid exploration mission by using iPads for training, Information Week reports. David Carr writes the agency is using the iPads to simulate time-delayed radio communications, organize mission pans and deliver training. Used for the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operation training at the Aquarius Reef Base at Key Largo, [...]
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SAP CEO Jim Snabe: Company’s Mobile App Expansion Aimed for Apple Devices
September 20, 2012 No CommentSAP CEO Jim Snabe sees a future expansion in mobile applications for businesses and the company is expanding its applications portfolio to run on Apple devices, he told Bloomberg in an interview. Snabe said the business management software firm has developed a new Sybase Unwired Platform, where developers create paid apps through SAP’s mobile app [...]
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Raytheon’s missile systems unit will develop high speed mobile wireless hot spots for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Nextgov reports. According to Bob Brewin’s story, the company will run the hot spots in a high-frequency band to deliver video and broadband data communications to infantry, platoons and companies with links to unmanned aerial vehicles. [...]
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Citing its “objectionable and crude” nature, Apple has for the third time in a month rejected a mobile application where users get notified whenever a U.S. drone conducts a strike overseas, Wired reports. However, this is also the third different reason Apple has given Drone+ developers for not providing the app in the App Store, [...]
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The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeking mobile device management software as well as an application store for the Pentagon’s mobility program, the agency announced Wednesday on FedBizOpps. In a presolicitation notice, the agency said it is working to issue a full-and-open request for proposals and plans to award a three-year contract containing one base [...]
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Air Force Wants Software for Electronic Flight Bags in Recently Procured iPads
August 29, 2012 No CommentThe Air Force Special Operations Command wants device management software for the 2,725 Apple iPads that were bought in May to serve as electronic flight bags, NextGov reports. These electronic flight bags will be used to store and display flight charts and manuals that are traditionally on paper. Bob Brewin reports that the software should [...]
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