Accenture Federal Services has won a $25 million (€23.36 million) digital transformation prime contract to modernise operations for Air Force Sustainment Centre (AFSC) including each of three air logistics complexes (ALCs) at Tinker Air Force based in Oklahoma, Robins air force base in Georgia, and Hill air force base in Utah. Using an approach that includes cloud, edge computing, and industrial internet of things (IIoT), Accenture Federal Services is creating IIoT enterprise platform for AFSC’s technology hosting environment for NextGen automation, a programme commonly referred to as ATHENA. ATHENA is central to air force’s plan to create “digital depot”, and modernise AFSC operations. (more…)
September 21, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
KBR announced that its commercial cloud and mission service platform, KBR Vaault, has been prioritised for Federal Risk and Authorisation Management Programme (FedRAMP) Joint Authorisation Board (JAB) authorisation process. KBR’s integrated technology solution is one of six products currently prioritised for JAB authorisation as a part of FedRAMP, a joint US government effort to provide cost-effective and risk-based cloud services. (more…)
September 18, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Ericsson and Ooredoo Qatar deploy Ericsson Smart Connected Site solution. This solution will increase network’s energy efficiency and reduce the carbon emissions in network. (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Tarana Wireless, Inc., announced that Digital Alpha Advisors, has joined Tarana’s investor group. The $50 million (€46.92 million) up round led by Digital Alpha is focused on both accelerating Tarana’s growth in sales and deployment of G1 (generation 1), its next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform, as well as expanding R&D investment. This will thereby help to build on Tarana’s foundational advances in wireless broadband technology. Tarana’s valuation increase reflects the Tarana’s performance and market traction. (more…)
September 16, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Trusted Connectivity Alliance (TCA) has announced election of Bertrand Moussel (Valid) as chair of board for 2023-4. The organisation works to promote eSIM (embedded subscriber identity module) interoperability, advanced use of eSIM technology across upcoming IoT (internet of things) use-cases and support sustainable creation. Moussel has served on TCA’s board since 2016 and succeeds Claus Dietze (Giesecke+Devrient), who stepped down following three consecutive terms as chair. Dietze remains on board alongside Benoit Collier (IDEMIA), Christian Vignes (STMicroelectronics) and Stephane Quetglas (Thales). The re-election of Cyril Caillaud (NXP Semiconductors) and Jean-Philippe Betoin (Kigen) to the two rotating seats completes the board for 2023-4. (more…)
September 15, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Fujitsu General Australia and Fujitsu General New Zealand have partnered with Sensibo. This partnership will provide smart home air conditioning (AC) solutions. Sensibo is a climate technology internet of things (IoT) company that develops smart AC and heat pump solutions, using data and artificial intelligence (AI), for a more sustainable world. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Kobai, has announced collaboration with Databricks. With this collaboration, joint customers can leverage insights of knowledge graphs with scalability and power of Databricks lakehouse platform. Kobai’s saturn platform is embedded directly in data layer, allowing organisations to query data without moving it from lakehouse, with W3C (world wide web consortium) and lakehouse open standards providing complete interactivity. (more…)
September 13, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
According to recent studies conducted by Deloitte, an average number of connected devices in US households has risen to 22. This and other trends are pushing FCC (federal communications commission) to raise previous definition of broadband, 25Mbps (megabits per second), to 100Mbps goal and Airvine describes in a blog post how property owners, management companies and managed service providers in ‘MDU’ (multi-dwelling unit) sector can provide necessary broadband network upgrades within these buildings. (more…)
September 12, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
ReposiTrak has welcomed one of California’s large regional, self distributed grocery chains to ReposiTrak traceability network. Implementation is underway for chain’s 200 retail locations and 200 suppliers. They prepare supply chains for compliance with FDA’s FSMA food traceability 204 regulation using easy-to-adopt, low-cost solution that’s backed by industry. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Airties and Domos, has announced an alliance to provide enhanced latency management capabilities to broadband service providers around world. Airties and Domos will jointly own latency monitoring software module, based on Domos’ existing module, and will be embedded into Airties smart Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) software. Additionally, Domos will gain access to Airties’ customer base to expand distribution of its network X-ray agent through integration with Airties smart Wi-Fi solutions. Financial terms of deal were not disclosed. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar