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Terrorists active in social media, says paper

Terrorist groups use online social network sites to monitor military personnel and recruit new followers, says a new paper by a University of Haifa communications professor. Gabriel Weimann, in a Read more...

FBI delays Sentinel rollout to May 2012

FBI officials attribute a further delay in rollout of a $451 million troubled digital case management effort known as Sentinel primarily to insufficient hardware capacity. In a Justice Department Read more...

Congress says no to ERAM upgrade funding

A "minibus" funding bill signed into law Nov. 18 by President Obama will make a number of cuts in this fiscal year to the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen air traffic control modernization Read more...

Spotlight: AEHF to complete on-board testing by end of November, says Air Force

The Advanced Extremely High Frequency military communications satellite completed initial activation of the protected communications payload Oct. 26 - 28 and begun on-orbit testing, according to a Read more...

Most records in NARA's ERA won't be content searchable, says IG

Federal records placed into the National Archives and Records Administration's Electronic Records Archive typically won't be content searchable, the agency's inspector general warns. In two Read more...

ERAM plan shows deployment rate of 5 to 7 a year

The Federal Aviation Administration plans to deploy a troubled software effort to its 20 air route traffic control centers at a rate of 5 to 7 a year through Sept. 30, 2014, according to a corrective Read more...

NARA ERA spending plan shows deferred functionality

Among the now-indefinitely postponed functionalities once planned for the National Archives and Records Administration's Electronic Records Archive system is the ability to monitor and execute Read more...

LockMart wasn't properly incentivized in Census contract, says IG

By giving Lockheed Martin the ability to receive the majority of an award fee pool even by delivering partial performance, the Census Bureau gave the contractor little incentive to excel, says the Read more...

NARA ERA spending plan 'not reliable,' says GAO

An October 2010 spending plan submitted by the National Archives and Records Administration for the final developmental year of its Electronic Records Archive project failed in several key ways, Read more...

Scovel: ERAM delivered to FAA with missing software code

Things started going wrong for the Federal Aviation Administration's En Route Automation Modernization program when contractors delivered software code to the FAA for final acceptance testing in Read more...

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Lockheed Martin and Cleversafe Form Big Data Alliance for Secure, Distributed Storage

HERNDON, Va., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and Cleversafe, Inc. have formed a new technology alliance that will facilitate collaboration between the two companies to Read more >>

Lockheed Martin Wins Contract Worth up to $2 Billion to Support the U.S. Antarctic Program

Working with the National Science Foundation to enhance the program's infrastructure in support of world-class research and discoveryROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lockheed Read more >>

Lockheed Martin Achieves Critical Reliability Testing Milestone on U.S. Navy Minehunting System

PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) completed 500 hours of reliability testing on the U.S. Navy's Remote Multi-Mission Vehicle (RMMV), marking a critical Read more >>

Block Upgrade Program Enhances Interoperability of Lockheed Martin's C-130J Super Hercules

MARIETTA, Ga., Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $167 million U.S. Air Force contract to develop a new block upgrade for the C‑130J Super Hercules. The Read more >>

U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin Agree on Satellite Command & Control R&D Project

Affordable ground C2 readiness to be tested during demonstration at MMSOCKING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has signed a three-year Cooperative Research Read more >>