Shamlan Siddiqi, chief technology officer of NTT DATA’s public sector division, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the impact artificial intelligence is having on the U.S. government... Read more
Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary has received a contract from Environmental Defense Fund to design and define requirements for a small satellite designed to detect and monitor methane emis... Read more
ASGN’s ECS business has teamed up with search company Elastic to leverage the latter’s open-source technologies and software-as-a-service offerings to build up the speed and security posture... Read more
A new analysis by health care company Premier found that U.S. hospitals incur approximately $11.3B in total annual costs associated with patients who experienced opioid overdoses, constituti... Read more
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company considers the upcoming launch of the last and eighth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites as “the most important milestone of all,”... Read more
Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at Hortonworks, has predicted the federal government will implement this year a new policy to manage data “at the edge.” “Capturing dat... Read more
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company could opt to send the six ground spare satellites for the Iridium NEXT constellation should an opportunity for a rideshare mission... Read more
Women now hold senior leadership roles at top defense contractors and among them are Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, and Engility CEO Lynn D... Read more
David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat’s North American public sector, has said there are several options the federal government can consider to build up its workforce’s cybersecurity an... Read more
Raytheon’s Todd Probert: DoD Could Look to Commercial Software Dev’t to Speed Up Weapons Procurement
Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon, told C4ISRNET that one of the trends he expects to see in 2019 is the Department of Defense’s move to accelerat... Read more
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has booked new contracts and renewals worth up to $65M combined to support various space and satellite communications programs. The company said Monda... Read more
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Inmarsat Government has said industry and military leaders have initiated several space-related measures in 2018 meant to establish a resilient, global and integrated... Read more
A Raytheon-built ground control platform has supported the launch of the U.S. Air Force’s first GPS III satellite. Raytheon said Sunday the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System wil... Read more
Ray Williams: Radiant Solutions Uses AI, Other Emerging Tech to Help Clients Gain Insights From Data
Ray Williams, vice president and general manager of agile intelligence business at Maxar Technologies’ Radiant Solutions subsidiary, has discussed how his business works to help clients quic... Read more
Matthew Desch Propels Iridium to an All-Time High
Local CEO Matthew Desch took over Iridium, based in McLean, Va., 12 years ago and helped the company recover from a troubled past to become the powerhouse that it is today. Under Desch’s lea... Read more