Stories about: Raytheon

NASA said this week it is snapping up two Global Hawk unmanned aircraft for use in high-altitude, long-duration Earth science missions and is paying Northrop Grumman US$25 million to support the program over the next five years.

Consider this: In the week following September 11, 2001, your users were glued to their television sets tracking breaking news. If an event of similar proportions happened today, they would expect the enterprise network to be able to handle not only real-time video feeds but also high-definition videoconferences and surveillance, as well as instant access to social-networking tools.

When it comes to protecting his company's data, Tom Scocca doesn't mind that he might be seen as something of a Big Brother by internal end users.

Few reports have surfaced of security breaches in virtual-server environments, but the potential looms large.

Vancouver-based Absolute Software hopes its involvement in a new McAfee partnership will help give IT mangers a consolidated and simplified platform for dealing with enterprise security.

From the start, Henry Malmgren was determined to get to the South Pole. After graduating from Texas Tech University in 1998 with a degree in MIS he applied for a job in the Antarctic every year before NSF contractor Raytheon finally hired him as a network engineer in 2001. Since then he has alternated between the Denver headquarters and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, spending two summers and two winters there before finally working his way up to IT manager. Staying over is a commitment: Once the winter starts, there's no way to get in and out of the base until summer begins eight to nine months later. "I thought I would just do this for a single season, but somehow it always seemed too easy to keep coming back," he says.

Driven by market consolidation and the ongoing efforts of large IT security vendors to meld DLP (data leakage prevention) tools into their broader portfolios, some experts contend that the technologies will increasingly become perceived as product features and less so as stand-alone platforms.

US Government technology supplier Raytheon announced the completion of its acquisition of data-leak prevention company Oakley Systems.

Rackable has introduced ICE Cube, a 'data center in a can' with the claim that it can do more processing and store more data than Sun's similar Blackbox product, while reducing required cooling.

The Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP), an IT security standards consortium that includes heavyweights such as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and many of the largest government contractors in the world, is looking to broaden its ranks.

Brisbane-based management appliance vendor Opengear has inked a deal with defence technology giant Raytheon to supply console servers which will be used for Dubai Airport's new air traffic management system.