Raytheon offers a technology designed to provide data that helps firefighters and governments detect smoke and resulting fires.

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Inmarsat has partnered with Orbit Communication Systems, a satellite communications terminal provider, to develop a compact and lightweight aviation terminal that will support unmanned aerial vehicles, military aircraft and business jets.

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The U.S. Army is sourcing for information on next-generation transponder technology to provide worldwide cellular- and satellite-based coverage in support of the Defense Department‘s asset tracking operations. The service branch intends to use the transponders to perform logistics activities and generate asset in-transit visibility, the Army said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice. The Army plans to […] More

Maxar Technologies‘ DigitalGlobe has incorporated imagery from the WorldView-4 Earth observation satellite into a cloud-based technology designed to help customers access geospatial intelligence. DigitalGlobe said Sunday its WorldView-4 imagery collections will more than double the daily volume of 30-centimeter imagery stored in the SecureWatch platform and help analysts monitor activity in multiple areas of interest. MDA, also a Maxar unit, plans to integrate […] More

CACI International has received a potential one-year, $41.5 million task order to provide engineering services for a U.S. Army program that seeks to facilitate the analysis of commercial-based technologies in support of mission requirements worldwide. “Our partnership with the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate in support of its critical Commercial Based Technology Analysis […] More

ExecutiveBiz spoke with four-time Wash100 recipient Teresa Carlson about Amazon Web Services’ current offerings and output from the AWS re:Invent 2017 conference. On topics ranging from innovation in cloud computing to hyperscale in the public sector, here’s what she had to say: “We’ve seen our government customers use the cloud as a springboard to do […] More

[dropcap color=”#000000″ bgcolor=”#c4c4c4″]N[/dropcap]ow is an exciting time to be involved in the world of technology development, as the vehicle of innovation continues to accelerate forward into the future. The ‘technolution’ that we’re seeing in cyber security, unmanned systems, information and data technology, advanced weaponry and renewable energy, to name a few, is happening now. And now, […] More

Making innovative impacts across industry from the lab to the battle space, Alion Science and Technology supports clients across six core capability areas: ISR Technology; Live, Virtual, Constructive Training; Modernization and Sustainment; Network and Software Engineering; Systems Engineering and Integration; and Weapons Platforms. To comment on what values drive the company forward–and what drives him–ExecutiveBiz […] More

Four Harris-built maritime vessel tracking receivers have begun to track nearly 250,000 ships around the world as part of hosted payloads onboard Iridium‘s NEXT satellites that were launched in January. Harris said Monday the receivers are designed to offer global automatic identification system information and ship tracking capacity for government and commercial users. Iridium’s NEXT satellite constellation is scheduled to reach full […] More

IAP Worldwide Services has landed a potential $53 million contract to help the U.S. Army implement a ground intelligence system at Fort Hood in Texas and other military facilities worldwide. IAP said Monday it will provide integrated logistics, fielding and training services for the  Distributed Common Ground System-Army under the contract awarded through the military branch’s Rapid Response Third Generation vehicle. Work also covers hardware […] More

A trim-and-drill tool created by researchers at the Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Boeing has set a new Guinness World Record as the largest solid three-dimensionally printed item. ORNL said Monday the laboratory worked over 30 hours to print the tool that is 17.5 feet long, 5.5 feet wide and 1.5 feet tall with a weight of approximately 1,650 pounds. Boeing will use the trim […] More

The Missile Defense Agency plans to award a potential five-year contract to provide information technology management and analysis support services to MDA’s information management and technology operations directorate. MDA said in a presolicitation notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps potential contractors will provide such services under a small business set-aside contract in support of global information systems across all agency […] More