Hughes Unveils New Network Mgmt Portfolio; Mike Cook Comments
Hughes Network Systems has launched a new portfolio of managed network and digital media products intended to help customers in the enterprise and government sectors monitor broadband network and customer traffic to help manage applications. HughesON Performance Optimization technologies are built to help customers use on-premise equipment in building an enterprise-class wide-area network that transmits [...]
Northrop Builds New UAS Mission Hardware, Software; Doug Valenzuela Comments
February 8, 2013 No Comment
Northrop Grumman has developed a new mission management hardware and software suite for unmanned aerial vehicles with commercial-off-the-shelf equipment. In December, the company flew a Global Hawk drone using the Mission Management Control System product for an Air Force demonstration, Northrop said Thursday. During the demonstration, a Global Hawk took off under operator control at [...]
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General Dynamics will provide the U.S. Navy engineering services and production work on upgraded hardware and software for a sonar system, the Defense Department said Friday. The company’s advanced information systems unit won a $28,194,504 modification to support the Multipurpose Processor and Total Ship Monitoring System. GDAIS will develop and produce upgrades to hardware and [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security is preparing a request for proposals for a new continuous monitoring program using a cloud computing infrastructure, according to analysis from Deltek’s GovWin blog. Kyra Kozemchak writes DHS is planning to release the RFP for the Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation program and for continuous monitoring-as-a-service sometime between December 2012 and March [...]
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SRA International has spent the past few years helping develop a hardware-based system of security tools for the smart phones of its government customers. This week, it closed a transaction to sell its stake in the system’s application suite and send an engineering team to R&D partner KoolSpan. KoolSpan manufactures a chip that slides into [...]
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Telework is an increasing trend for government agencies as shown in news of General Services Administration‘s recently approved telework policy and the Agriculture Department looking to have 40 percent of its staff teleworking by 2013, reported by our sister site ExecutiveGov. While telework is clearly on the rise for federal workers, they are not the only ones counting the benefits. [...]
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Earlier this week, HP invited customers to participate in the HP Cloud Services private beta program. The services include HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage. HP is offering early access for users to test and provide input on these initial cloud services. According to the HP invitation, both offerings are based on HP’s [...]
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