Posts from ExecutiveBiz for 10/12/2015

Dell Signs $67B Cash-Stock Deal to Acquire EMC

Dell has agreed to purchase EMC (NYSE: EMC) through an approximately $67 billion cash-and-stock transaction as both companies seek to create a new enterprise-focused information technology business. Michael Dell said Monday the combined company will pursue growth in the hybrid cloud, mobile, software-based data center, converged infrastructure, security and digital transformation market areas…

Army Issues RFI on Radar, Infrared-Based Sensors for JIDA Anti-Improvised Threat Programs

The U.S. Army has asked industry to supply information on several radar and infrared-based sensor technologies built to provide “quick reaction capability” support to the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency…

Lockheed F-35C Jets Complete 2nd At-Sea Test Round

Lockheed Martin has completed a second round of F-35C at-sea tests aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to check the maneuver, launch and nighttime operations of the F-35‘s carrier-based variant, Reuters reported Friday…

Nextgov: Autonomic Resources’ Open Source PaaS Gets FedRAMP Approval

Autonomic Resources has been certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its ARCWRX open source platform-as-a-service cloud offering to the federal government, Nextgov reported Friday…

Stan Deal: Boeing Eyes Pilot Training Portfolio Growth With Buy of Peters Software

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has bought Peters Software for an undisclosed sum to expand Boeing’s commercial airline and private pilot training programs in an effort to help meet a demand for skilled pilots globally…

Dynetics to Launch Sensor System, Cyber Risk Mgmt Portfolio at Grid Security Conference

Dynetics will launch two security platforms at the four-day Grid Security Conference scheduled to kick off Tuesday in Philadelphia. Dynetics will showcase its GroundAware Reconfigurable Surveillance Sensor system and Cyber RiskScope portfolio at the North American Electric Reliability Corp…

DSFederal to Update FDA Adverse Event Reporting Tool; Sophia Parker Comments

The Food and Drug Administration has awarded DSFederal a potential $20 million contract to upgrade and maintain the agency’s Safety Reporting Portal. SRP is an online data repository that gathers and distributes information on adverse events related to regulated products to the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and other agencies under FDA, DSFederal said Friday…

Aerospace Corp.-made CubeSat for Laser Communications Demo Mission Reaches Orbit; Steve Jurczyk Comments

An Aerospace Corp.-built CubeSat has reached orbit after it lifted onboard the Atlas V rocket at California-based Vandenberg Air Force Base Thursday. NASA said Saturday the CubeSat spacecraft is part of the Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration mission that will work to assess the capability of the miniature satellite to perform laser-based data transfer at a maximum rate of 200 megabytes per second…