Iran is openly seeking a vendor to provide information on Internet firewalls for filtering and monitoring web content. Iran’s ministry of information and communications technology issued a request for information, translated from Farsi and reported by Ars Technica, asking organizations and companies to describe software that could be used for censorship. The RFI, posted April [...]
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Military-funded research has yielded a biochip that could detect injuries to service members based on traumatic events, according to NextGov. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, a bioengineering and computer engineering researcher, applied for a patent last Thursday for an implantable biochip that would manage trauma-induced hemorrhages. Guiseppi-Elie’s biochip technology would remotely monitor soldiers on a battlefield. The research [...]
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CBP Only Wants Readily Available Tech for Border Project; Mark Borkowski Comments
April 16, 2012 No CommentCustoms and Border Protection will update its border security system by mixing in commercial technology, Nextgov reports. Mark Borkowski, assistant commissioner for CBP’s office of technology, innovation and acquisition, said the agency is taking a new approach by using technology that is already available. He added that industry must prove to the agency that the [...]
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ATK and NASA completed the first test of a space launch system booster for a new phase of space exploration, the company announced Tuesday. The aerospace and defense firm said it completed the flight control test 1 for the space agency’s space launch system booster program March 28 in Utah. Fred Brasfield, vice president for the [...]
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Northrop Grumman Corp.’s laser defense system technology has reached the sixth level of a nine-level government measurement system, the company announced Monday. The All Semiconductor Airborne Laser Threat Terminator system went through a series of thermal, vibration, shock and field tests. The system also had to meet a set of performance benchmarks. Gordon Stewart, laser systems [...]
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NASA put three sections of its Goddard Space Flight Center software patents up for auction on March 29, Wired reports. The space agency put software development patents, autonomic computing and autonomic safety systems patents up for grabs at the ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction. NASA sold the development patents for $75,000, according to Wired. The [...]
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Northrop Delivers F-35 Fuselage to Lockheed From New Assembly Line Approach
April 3, 2012 No CommentNorthrop Grumman Corp. has delivered the 70th F-35 center center fuselage to the fighter jet’s prime contractor Lockheed Martin, the company announced Monday. This fuselage is the first produced using the integrated assembly line approach at the company’s Palmdale, Calif., site. Michelle Scarpella, F-35 program vice president, said this approach is a new way of [...]
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The Agriculture Department‘s National Resources Conservation Service is taking steps in customer contact and information availability, Federal Computer Week reports. NCRS will use mobile and web-based tools for communicating with customers and provide around the clock customer support. Through the client gateway, NRCS customers can request assistance, check for eligibility of plans and contracts, virtually [...]
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Lockheed Martin has released an academic version of its virtual simulation software for students. The Bethesda, Md.-based company said Monday that Prepar3d provides users with problem solving situations through virtual training. According to the company, virtual environments can range from underwater to suborbital space. Those environments also can include real-life elements like vehicles, people, wildlife and [...]
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