Lockheed Martin will proceed on work to modify the U.S. Air Force’s existing GPS ground control unit after the military branch approved the company’s upgrade design for the system. The company said Monday it completed a critical design review in November under the Contingency Operations contract and will move forward with software development and systems engineering tasks for […] More

Lockheed Martin has put its first satellite for the U.S. Air Force GPS III program through a thermal vacuum test in order to determine if the satellite could withstand simulated harsh space conditions. The simulation took place Dec. 23 and exposed an assembled GPS III system to prolonged extreme temeprature cycles inside a depressurized chamber, Lockheed […] More

Lockheed Martin has integrated the first GPS III satellite’s system module with the propulsion core as part of the company’s program to deliver satellite navigation functions to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Monday the systems integration for GPS III space vehicle one brings together components such as the navigation payload and electronics to operate the satellite. “This summer, […] More

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have jointly tested the command and control features of the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS III satellite during a fourth launch readiness exercise. The companies demonstrated automatic data transfer between the Lockheed-built satellite and a Raytheon-made operational control system, Raytheon said Wednesday. The evaluation also sought to demonstrate the infrastructure’s maneuver planning, […] More

Lockheed Martin and partners have activated the bus and network communications payload of a second satellite for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS system. The team worked to turn on the power of the GPS III Space Vehicle 2 on Dec. 19 at Lockheed’s Denver-based facility in order to exhibit the satellite’s mechanical integration and interfaces, Lockheed […] More

MarkLogic’s Amanda Mason has said her experience in the U.S. Air Force has helped her coordinate groups from both the private and public sectors to provide students of cybersecurity learning programs with “hands on experiences,” U.S. News & World Report reported Friday. Tom Risen writes Mason, director of strategic programs for the intelligence community at […] More

Vormetric and IANS have released a joint report that indicates a growing appetite among information security professionals for encryption as a security strategy. Eighty-four of the 100 respondents from the professional security field look to encrypt all sensitive data of their organization, Vormetric said Tuesday. “Modern encryption solutions enable organizations to not only safeguard traditional applications, but […] More

Stewart Room, head of cybersecurity and data protection for PwC‘s legal practice, has urged businesses in the Internet of Things market to build up their privacy and security measures, Computing reported Friday. “If any business gets this wrong, what they are running towards is a serious trust, confidence and legal crisis,” Room said at an event PwC co-hosted […] More

Vormetric seeks to add more protection to DataStax’s Apache Cassandra database management system with two new data security platforms. Transparent Encryption will attach a layer of data-at-rest security for Cassandra customers and activate privilege user access control and security intelligence collection, Vormetric said Sept. 11. Application Encryption provides extended field-level safeguards to an enterprise’s existing applications, such […] More

Vormetric and open-source database firm MongoDB have partnered to help enterprise customers protect data and applications in a NoSQL environment by using Vormetric’s security products. The Vormetric encryption suite works to manage sensitive data at rest within MongoDB-powered big data implementations as well as secure files at the operating system and database level, Vormetric said […] More

The U.S. Air Force has wrapped up a factory mission readiness test on the first Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite along with the launch-and-checkout system of a Raytheon-developed ground control platform. Lockheed said Tuesday the GPS III SV01 satellite received and processed commands from the Next Generation Operational Control System’s LCS component during the FMRT demonstration […] More

The first GPS III satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Air Force is ready to lift off in 2018 after the space vehicle received the “available for launch” designation from the service branch. Lockheed said Tuesday it now awaits the Air Force’s green light to start pre-launch preparations for the GPS III SV01 satellite. […] More