On Thursday, Inmarsat announced it signed a contribution agreement supporting the United Nations’ Crisis Connectivity Charter, which directs participants to dedicate satellite equipmen... Read more
The United Nations Statistics Division has partnered with Esri in an effort to help UN member states implement a data respository for assessing, monitoring and reporting sustainable developm... Read more
Pentagon Performance Inc. has received a notification of consideration for a potential $50 million contract from the United Nations to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance s... Read more
A partnership between Sierra Nevada Corp. and the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs aims to launch microgravity payloads from UN member states aboard the company-built Dre... Read more
BAE Systems will debut a new infantry fighting vehicle offered in partnership with Patria for the LAND 400 Phase 3 program at the Land Forces 2016 event in Australia. BAE Systems said Tuesda... Read more
Sierra Nevada Corp. has inked a memorandum of agreement with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs to collaborate on the development of space experiment opportunities for U.N. me... Read more
Border security agencies worldwide can implement iris biometrics technology in order to determine the identities of people that enter their country from overseas locations, a Unisys executiv... Read more
Delegates at the International Telecommunication Union’s 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva have allocated the 1087.7-1092.3 megahertz frequency band to track aircraft worldw... Read more
AECOM has been chosen to receive the University of Notre Dame’s Corporate Adaptation Prize in recognition of a disaster preparedness assessment tool developed through an AECOM-IBM part... Read more
SAP AG and the United Nations Population Fund have recently unveiled two interactive population dashboards making use of SAP’s business analytics technologies. The dashboard cre... Read more
Microsoft will partner with a number of nonprofits and NGOs to help students solve real-world problems as part of its Imagine Cup competition, the company announced this week. The move echoe... Read more
HP will provide more than $8 million worth of technology for the 2010 UN Climate Change Conference being held in Cancun, Mexico this winter, the company has announced. The Mexican government... Read more
A group of 15 countries have agreed to engage one another in ways to combat the growing threats on the Internet. The new agreement is a set of recommendations, it is still representative of... Read more
The South Korean government is preparing to make a bid to host a UN run cybersecurity organization, according to an article on JoongAng Daily. An anonymous source in the Ministry of Public A... Read more
Deloitte’s William Eggers & Max Meyers: Venture Capital Models Could Help Agencies ‘Spin In’ Commercial Tech
William Eggers and Max Meyers of Deloitte wrote in an FCW article published Thursday that federal agencies can “spin in” commercial technological capabilities by implementing four investment... Read more