The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has built two small satellites for use in national security and space missions. The cubesats were for APL’s multimission bus demonstration along with other satellites that launched into orbit aboard a Minotaur I rocket from Wallops Flight Facility, Va. as part of the …

Verizon has introduced a cloud-based security suite for customers that is designed to secure Internet-connected devices and systems. The Managed Certificate Services tool works to validate the identities of machines and safeguard the connections between objects, Verizon said Tuesday. Eddie Schwartz, vice president of global security services at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, …

Oracle and Infineon Technologies have moved to combine technologies for developing applications in an effort to help service providers fulfill government requirements. Infineon’s SLE 78 security controller has been integrated with Oracle’s Java Card implementation for manufacturers to build health care, identification and Social Security applications, Infineon said Tuesday. Carsten …

Hewlett-Packard has updated its analytics platform offering for clients, aiming to help turn big data into business assets. The new version of the Vertica Analytics Platform called HP Vertica Crane works to load and analyze diverse semistructured data, HP said Tuesday. Colin Mahony, HP vice president and general manager for Vertica, …

Deloitte has introduced a fresh cloud-based service to consolidate applications and various technology providers and is intended to help customers connect across cloud environments. CloudMix is designed to incorporate Deloitte’s front and back office practices and systems integration and to combine cloud technologies from Salesforce, MuleSoft and Apttus, among others, …

IBM has collaborated with Spanish towns Irun and Hondarribia to manage and operate facilities through big data with the goal of turning information into insights for deploying public services. The Bajo Bidasoa area in Spain’s Basque region intends for the Smarter Cities project to analyze large amounts of data using IBM’s …

Teradata has introduced a new software services offering intended to warehouse data in cloud computing environments, InfoQ reported Monday. Alex Giamas writes the cloud-based tool features three processes such as data loading into the cloud, a discovery platform and a data management part, as well as consulting services for those components. …

Lockheed Martin is looking to market its flight simulator technology in the Middle East region, where the United Arab Emirates aims to fulfill trainer system requirements for its air force, Aviation International News reported Monday. David Donald writes Lockheed Martin has transported its T-50 Golden Eagle simulator to Dubai in a …

Dell Inc. has collaborated with several research laboratories to develop a computing technology intended to serve as a research platform for genomics analyses using big data. The research institutions have been using Dell’s Active Infrastructure for HPC Life Sciences, which works to combine computing, storage and networking to process up …

Capgemini has launched a cloud assessment framework for customers to migrate from on-site platforms to public or private cloud environments. The Capgemini Cloud Assessment covers a process that starts with identifying execution strategies and ends with deploying cloud transition methods based on the company’s Wide-angle Application Rationalization Program, Capgemini said …

Hewlett Packard’s enterprise services segment has won a $221 million contract to continue serving as fiscal agent for Wisconsin’s Health Services Department with the goal of helping that agency meet federal healthcare requirements. HP will manage a decision support system, a data warehouse for analyzing large volumes of Medicaid data, …

Inmarsat has partnered with Hewlett-Packard to deploy services and applications to customers through HP’s cloud-based software-as-a-service offering, Computer Business Review reported Friday. Kate Heslop writes Inmarsat has migrated to HP’s Application Lifecycle Management SaaS platform in order to deliver services to users. Dominic Potts, head of group test strategy at Inmarsat, …

Boeing has added Northrop Grumman-built fuel tanks into a new version of the U.S. Navy’s Super Hornet aircraft for a series of tests, Aviation International News reported Friday. Bill Carey writes the new F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet includes the conformal fuel tanks and a new Raytheon-built radar system, as well as an …

GE has been selected to help modernize the power grid of a city in Mississippi with the goal of helping the city fulfill energy usage requirements. Holly Springs City will use GE’s solutions-as-a-service offering to detect power outages, inform utilities about these disruptions and monitor city assets, GE said Thursday. …

CA Technologies has released a cloud-based technology intended to help clients back up data stored in cloud environments. The data storage offering works with Amazon Web Services and the Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage platforms for customers to archive data run on IBM‘s System z and trim storage size and bandwidth requirements …