Microsoft has announced that eight universities and local governments are making the move to its Office 365 cloud platform, according to a GCN article. Curt Kolcun, vice president of U.S. public sector at Microsoft, said the new sign-ups reflect the requirements of budget-conscious government and education organizations who see savings in the cloud that don’t compromise [...]
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The Federal Aviation Administration released two documents listing government and private organizations who are authorized to fly drones in the U.S. public air space, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reports. The agency provided the information as a result of the EFF’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for information on the agency’s drone authorization program. The agency included [...]
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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 Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it wants public input on choosing six test sites for unmanned aircraft systems. The agency said the input will help it design the process and criteria to issue a request for proposals to select UAS test areas, allowing integration of UAS into the national airspace system by 2015. The FAA [...]
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The Army will ask for permission to fly unmanned aircraft in civilian airspace near Army bases for training, according to a recent Army memo. As part of the process, the Army will apply for a certificate of authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate drones near Fort Stewart, Ga., AOL Defense reports. “The Army’s [...]
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The competition is on for authorized Apple re-sellers as the Air Force Special Operations Command is looking to bring in 2,861 Apple iPad2 tablets to aid crew members during flights, according to an AFSOC notice and NextGov report. The Dec. 29, 2011 notice indicated the Air Force wants a solution that can “provide near-instantaneous, seamless, standardized updates [...]
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Predator drones are not only sent to countries abroad, but are being used increasingly to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the Washington Post. Customs and Border Protection currently has five Predators flying over the southern border, with a sixth being added soon. CBP has eight of the drones total, the Post reports. CBP wants [...]
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Rockwell Collins will be working with NASA to develop a control system to enable unmanned aircraft to safely fly in the national airspace system, the company announced Monday. Under the three-year partnership formed through NASA’s unmanned aircraft system communications research sub-project, the team will work to define the waveform for a non-payload communications data link [...]
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