Keith E. Johnson who holds more than 36 years of experience in the federal marketplace has recently joined Spire Global, a maritime, weather, and aviation data and analytics company as the vice president and general manager for the federal business. Johnson has extensive experience in business development, and building start-up company’s selling …

Spirent Federal Systems and Rockwell Collins have partnered to develop software that will work to support military code for the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS constellation modernization effort. The partnership comes nearly three months after Spirent obtained approval from the service branch’s GPS directorate to develop M-Code support technology with the use of Modernized Navstar …

Ball Aerospace and Spire Global will collaborate to support a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency project that seeks to increase maritime domain awareness in the Arctic region through the use of technology. Both companies aim to develop a data collection and analysis platform that will work to help the agency monitor the activity of vessels …

An Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft has deployed four small satellites from Spire Global above the International Space Station’s orbit as part of a secondary mission, Space News reported Saturday. Jeff Foust writes the spacecraft, nicknamed S.S. Alan Poindexter, launched four Lemur-2 satellites to help Spire build a constellation of cubesats designed to collect weather and …

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global worth $695,000 and $370,000, respectively, to provide data support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot project. NOAA said GeoOptics and Spire Global will supply space-based global navigation satellite system radio occultation data in efforts to demonstrate the quality and potential value of commercial data to the …

Richard Spires, CEO of Resilient Network Systems, has highlighted what he calls the root causes of insecure federal information technology infrastructure. Spires wrote in an opinion piece for FCW published Monday that the lack of IT management best practices is one of the factors that lead to data breaches and …

Richard Spires, CEO of Resilient Network Systems, has said any procurement reform needs to provide government market access to companies. Spires wrote in an opinion article for FCW published Wednesday that slow technology adoption at present has deterred startup businesses from selling to the public sector. This despite efforts from some federal …

Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has tapped Spirent Federal Systems to support hardware-in-the-loop tests of F-35 mission systems and sensors, where Spirent will provide GPS/INS simulation systems to the Joint Strike Fighter Mission Systems Integration Lab. Lockheed said Tuesday it will also use Spirent’s simulators for aiding procedures at the JSF Vehicle Systems Integration Facility. …

Spire is lining up the launch of its small weather satellites that will work to collect atmospheric data to fill a gap in weather forecasting capabilities. The company said Thursday the “shoebox-size” satellites will leverage the GPS Radio Occultation technique to monitor changes in weather and climate. It added that the network will eventually perform 10,000 readings a day to build …

After a year of planning, Raytheon has opened an interactive traveling exhibit in a museum at the United Arab Emirates that intends to promote mathematics in the region, the Khaleej Times reported Dec. 20. The exhibition, launched Nov. 15 in Abu Dhabi, will move next to Ras Al Khaimah, in …

Thales and Spire Payments are partnering to deliver a pin-based mobile payment technology merchants that are seeking to adopt mobile point of sale systems. The new tool is designed to integrate the Spire PosMate Smart and the Thales payShield 9000 hardware security moduless, the companies announced Tuesday. “Mobile acceptance has …

DeEtte Gray, president of BAE Systems‘ intelligence and security business, participated in a military-hosted event to discuss how to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Gray, 30 other executives and education leaders attended the forum with U.S. Army officials at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va., BAE said Thursday. “STEM …

The Department of Homeland Security plans to shift towards using mobile devices that can stream on-demand videos and conduct biometric identity verification checks, Federal Computer Week reports.  DHS Chief Information Officer Richard Spires discussed the department’s mobility and information sharing plans in addition to a new joint program office at …

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Hoping to instill a sense of volunteerism among professionals, Deloitte Services LP released its “Making a Difference… Differently” video series. The films spotlight professionals working pro bono on issues such as urban poverty, college for low-income students, disaster response and the Paralympics. Deloitte’s film series focuses on how nonprofits can …