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  • UAS Magazine: Intel Seeks Unmanned Market Expansion Through Drone Tech Development & Advisory Roles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UAS Magazine: Intel Seeks Unmanned Market Expansion Through Drone Tech Development & Advisory Roles

    Intel is continuing its push establish a presence in the unmanned aerial systems market through the development of obstacle avoidance technology and advisory roles of the company’s leaders in the UAS community, UAS Magazine reported Monday. Luke Geiver writes the company has integrated and tested its RealSense sensor package to measure its capacity to provide common drones with autonomous flight, […] More

  • General Dynamics, Army Select General Micro Systems Computer for WIN-T Increment 2 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics, Army Select General Micro Systems Computer for WIN-T Increment 2

    Rancho Cucamonga, California-based electronics manufacturer General Micro Systems‘ rugged computer has been selected for installation into the second increment of the U.S. Army‘s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, Military & Aerospace reported Friday. John Keller writes General Dynamics and Army Program Executive Office Command Control Communications-Tactical officials will use the GMS S902R Golden-Eye III system in vehicle-mount, WIN-T Increment 2 […] More

  • DT Research to Supply Additional Rugged Tablets to Army Reserve - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DT Research to Supply Additional Rugged Tablets to Army Reserve

    The U.S. Army Reserve has awarded a contract to DT Research to expand the deployment of company-built DT311H rugged tablets at Army-run facilities to support the military branch’s training and logistics activities. DT Research said Monday the award represents the second rugged tablets supply contract the company received from Army Reserve this year. The DT311H device is built with an 11.6-inch touch screen, […] More

  • HyTrust Collaborates with NIST, Industry Partners to Develop Trusted Geolocation in Cloud Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HyTrust Collaborates with NIST, Industry Partners to Develop Trusted Geolocation in Cloud Service

    HyTrust has worked with the National Institute of Science and Technology and industry partners Intel, RSA and VMware to create the NIST IR 7904 and a proof-of-concept designed to allow secured geolocation in cloud computing environments. Trusted geolocation functions work to monitor the deployment and execution of virtual machines or a workload with reliance on security provided by a Trusted Platform Module […] More

  • Intel, Samsung Create Industry Forum to Develop IoT Policy Recommendations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel, Samsung Create Industry Forum to Develop IoT Policy Recommendations

    Intel, Samsung have launched an interactive dialogue that seeks to convene technology industry stakeholders to develop Internet of Things policy recommendations for U.S. lawmakers. Samsung said Wednesday the National IoT Strategy Dialogue was created in response to technology leaders’ call for a forum that can help industry and Congress to realize the potential advantages of IoT technology for the economy and society. The Information […] More

  • Joe Euteneuer: Rivada Networks Forms Team to Bid for FirstNet Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Euteneuer: Rivada Networks Forms Team to Bid for FirstNet Contract

    Rivada Networks has formed a consortium of technology firms to pursue a contract to build a 4G LTE broadband wireless network for public safety organizations in the U.S. The Rivada Mercury team includes Harris Corp., Intel‘s security business, Ericsson, Nokia,  Fujitsu Network Communications and Black & Veatch and aims to offer a national emergency services network in the 700 megahertz spectrum, Rivada Networks […] More

  • Cubic Subsidiary Unveils 2 Mobile Virtualization Servers; Mike Barthlow Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Subsidiary Unveils 2 Mobile Virtualization Servers; Mike Barthlow Comments

    A Cubic Corp. subsidiary has rolled out two virtualization servers designed to operate in space-constrained, rugged or tactical environments. DTECH Labs‘ new Mobile Modular Micro-Secure Enclave servers M3-SE-VSVR-P and M3-SE-VSAN-P are built to support hyper-converged infrastructure and multiple small-form-factor virtual machines, Cubic said Wednesday. Mike Barthlow, vice president of secure networking at Cubic’s global defense segment, said DTECH developed the mobile servers to help organizations address mission requirements. M3-SE-VSVR-P […] More

  • Hitachi Launches New Business Group in Silicon Valley for Internet-of-Things Market Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Launches New Business Group in Silicon Valley for Internet-of-Things Market Push

    Japan-based industrial conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. has established a business unit to help drive the company’s Internet of Things research-and-development and go-to-market  strategic efforts. Hitachi Insight Group, led by Keiji Kojima, will offer IoT-based technologies and services meant to help government and enterprise customers achieve smart city, energy, healthcare and industrial goals through actionable insights, Hitachi said May 10. […] More

  • AUVSI Adds Woolpert SVP Jeff Lovin to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AUVSI Adds Woolpert SVP Jeff Lovin to Board of Directors

    Jeff Lovin, a nearly 30-year veteran of Woolpert and currently senior vice president and director of the company’s government solutions business, has joined the board of directors of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International. He will serve a three-year term in the association that works to promote and supports the interests of the unmanned systems and robotics […] More

  • DLT, SimpliVity Forge Data Center Consultation Partnership for Federal Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT, SimpliVity Forge Data Center Consultation Partnership for Federal Agencies

    DLT Solutions has partnered with hyperconverged infrastructure company SimpliVity in an effort to help federal agencies manage and operate their data centers. The alliance will work to unite all IT infrastructure and services below the hypervisor level and help organizations take control of their networks through virtualized workload protection, DLT said Tuesday. Brian Strosser, DLT’s chief operating officer, said […] More

  • Cray Lands German National Meteorological Service Contract for Supercomputer Update & Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cray Lands German National Meteorological Service Contract for Supercomputer Update & Expansion

    Cray has secured an $11 million contract from Germany’s national meteorological service to update and expand the agency’s supercomputers and storage systems used at its weather prediction centers. The company will provide updates for the agency’s two XC30 supercomputers and two Sonexion storage systems in an effort to address weather forecast accuracy and other meteorological requirements, […] More

  • Ron Pasek Named NetApp CFO; George Kurian Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ron Pasek Named NetApp CFO; George Kurian Comments

    Sunnyvale, California-based computer storage and data management company NetApp has appointed former Altera Chief Financial Officer Ron Pasek to the roles of executive vice president and CFO. The three-decade financial leadership veteran will join the company on April 11 to replace interim CFO Jeffrey Bergmann, NetApp said Wednesday. Prior to Altera, he spent 20 years in finance positions at […] More