Lockheed Martin entered into a master research agreement with Purdue University Thursday to explore hypersonics and other topics including cybersecurity, high temperature materials, optics and systems engineering.

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Planet has secured a deal with NASA to continue the provision of satellite imagery technologies to the agency until September as part of the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program.

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IST Research has secured a five-year, $66M contract from the General Services Administration to provide a technology platform that would help government agencies engage with citizens.

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Geospark Analytics has secured a five-year, multimillion-dollar contract to develop artificial intelligence-based disease outbreak models for the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Shaun Bierweiler, president of government solutions business at Cloudera, wrote in a LinkedIn article published Thursday that investing in internet of things and other information technology platforms could help higher education institutions improve operational efficiency and student experience.

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Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Cloudera, has said public sector agencies could extract "actionable" insights by using an open-source enterprise data cloud platform that is built on emerging technology such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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SRI International has secured a potential five-year, $63.5M from the U.S. Navy's Naval Research Laboratory to conduct low-frequency, high-power satellite calibration experiments.

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Raytheon Chairman and CEO Thomas Kennedy has said he believes maintaining data integrity should be part of an organization’s strategy to secure information technology assets from cyber threats. He wrote in an article published Tuesday on LinkedIn that data integrity protections can help companies defend against insider threats and comply with financial reporting standards under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. […] More

Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based medical device maker Stimwave has secured a five-year contract to supply spinal cord stimulators to the Defense Logistics Agency. Stimwave said Friday it will provide its Stimwave Freedom Spinal Cord Stimulation device and StimQ Peripheral Nerve Stimulator to DLA under a distribution and pricing agreement negotiated by TAMM Net. Laura Perryman, president and CEO of […] More

A Raytheon-commissioned global survey has found that organizations differ in their cybersecurity posture outlooks and face different challenges in terms of cyber readiness and governance. Ashok Sankar, senior director of cyber product strategy and management at Raytheon, writes the 2015 Global Megatrends in Cybersecurity study says more than half of information technology leaders from the government […] More

A Mercom Capital Group report says venture capitalists pumped about $1.2 billion into the healthcare information technology industry during 2015’s second quarter, up from the $784 million recorded during the previous quarter. The health IT sector closed 138 deals in Q2, compared with 142 during Q1, and secured nearly $2 billion in VC investments over […] More