Lockheed Martin has created a laser weapon system with the intent to defend against adversarial close-range rockets and unmanned aerial systems, Defense Update reports. Tamir Eshel writes the Area Defense Anti-Munitions system has a 3.1-mile tracking range, contains a 10-kilowatt fiber-laser and uses an external radar cue when targeting UAS. The company tested the system in [...]
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Avaya is helping the North American Aerospace Defense Command operate a hotline for children inquiring when Santa Claus and his sleigh will arrive at their house on Christmas Eve. Avaya said NORAD uses the company’s Aura unified communications and contact center services to connect each caller with one of the command’s 1,200 volunteers tracking Santa. [...]
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Oracle released a new big data appliance software that includes Intel‘s newest processors and the recent version of Cloudera software, E-Week reports. Chris Preimesberger writes the Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 also has a new Oracle Enterprise Manager plug-in for connecting the software with other servers. The new Cloudera version includes Apache Hadoop and Cloudera Manager, [...]
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Startups Aiming to Get Teachers, Executives Big Data; Fahad Hassan, Justin Langseth Comment
November 19, 2012 No CommentA Rockville, Md.-based startup wants to bring big data into the education sector, the Washington Post reports. Steven Overly writes angel investors gave $650,000 to Always Prepped to start a new website for teachers to track attendance and academic performance, using aggregated data from databases. Founder Fahad Hassan told Overly the company changed its approach [...]
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Harris Corp. has developed a new mobile tactical cellular network system to connect warfighters with high-bandwidth networks and provide them applications for use in the battlefield, the company announced Wednesday. KnightLite is a backpack version of the company’s KnightHawk system and is designed to support voice, high-speed data, video and text messaging. The company has [...]
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Unisys has completed its transition of 5,000 personnel at the Energy Department‘s Idaho National Laboratory to a Google cloud-based email and collaboration platform, Unisys announced Wednesday. Battelle Energy Alliance, DOE’s management and operations contractor for the lab, awarded Unisys the contract in August 2011 to implement Google Apps for Government. Anthony Hess, group vice president [...]
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The Food and Drug Administration is asking contractors to develop new databases for national and international medical devices, Nextgov reports. According to John Pulley’s report, the winner of the one-year contract will run several workshops that could lead to a framework for developing the registries. Responses are due Thursday and the FDA wants the first [...]
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Computer Sciences Corp. has introduced an on-premise private cloud for federal agencies that can start handling application workloads within 10 weeks, the company announced Thursday. BizCloud for Government gives users a private cloud behind their firewall or on their premises of choice, the company said. Leif Ulstrup, president of CSC’s federal consulting practice, said the [...]
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