Posts from GovCon Daily for 07/21/2015

Tom Romeo on Maximus’ Post-Acentia Acquisition Strategy, Industry’s Role in Citizen-Gov’t Connections

Reston, Va.-based government services firm Maximus entered new phase of its history in April when the company closed the $300 million cash acquisition of program management and technology contractor Acentia…

SAP, Virtustream Forge Federal Cloud Deployment Alliance; Carmen Krueger Comments

SAP National Security Services — a U.S.-based subsidiary of the German software and technology conglomerate — and Virtustream have partnered to deliver standards-compliant cloud services to federal agency clients…

Electric Boat-Made Sub ‘North Dakota’ Deploys Underwater Drones in 1st Naval Mission

The U.S. Navy‘s USS North Dakota submarine worked alongside three other Virginia-class submarines to deploy and retrieve unmanned underwater vehicles during a six-week tour in the Mediterranean Sea…

HughesNet Tests Satellite Video Transmission From Helicopter; Rick Lober Comments

Hughes Network Systems‘ defense and intelligence systems division has worked with partners Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and DataPath to test the video transmission capability of its satellite communications system for airborne platforms…

Radiant Insights: Navigation, Visualization Trends to Drive Commercial UAS Market Through 2021

A new Radiant Insights report predicts the worldwide market for commercial unmanned aircraft systems to be worth $4.8 billion by 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 21.5 percent from 2014 figures…