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Veris Group has joined the partner network of Amazon Web Services where Veris intends to help AWS customers design, build, migrate, and manage their workloads, Veris said Tuesday. Vienna, Va.-based Veris will act as a standard tier consulting partner as part of the new deal and will work with both private and public customers. “Our partnership […] More
Exelon and Pepco Holdings are seeking approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the proposed merger between the two energy companies. The transaction seeks to create a utility that would distribute electricity and natural gas to customers in the mid-Atlantic region, Exelon said Friday. Both utilities expect the regulatory agency to hand down a decision […] More
AECOM and IBM have collaborated to design a benchmark tool to help UN member states’ local governments assess their level of preparedness for earthquakes, floods, storms and fires. The companies developed the scorecard for the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction with the goal of helping cities withstand natural disasters as well as protect lives […] More
Deloitte has released its first annual report on mergers and acquisitions activity in the U.S., indicating a generally positive M&A outlook among 2,500 companies and private equity firms over the next two years. Deloitte’s “M&A Trends Report 2014: A comprehensive look at the M&A market” shows 84 percent of corporate executive respondents see a sustained or increased […] More
Many Fortune 500 companies are seeking to hire chief information security officers or board directors who have experience and skills in cybersecurity, Reuters reported Friday. Nadia Damouni writes that Cardinal Health, Deere & Co., JPMorgan Chase, PepsiCo and The United Services Automobile Association are among the firms that are searching data security professionals in order […] More
PAE has received a $9 million task order from the State Department to carry forward the company’s criminal justice system support services work for a United Nations mission in Liberia. The company will work with the UN and the Liberian government to build up the skills of Liberia’s justice personnel and law enforcers, PAE said […] More
Lockheed Martin will work with government, academic and business organizations in Canada’s province of Alberta to develop technologies in areas such as computing, water management and consumer electronics under an agreement between the company and the provincial government. The goal of the collaboration is to connect the expertise of Lockheed and Alberta’s technology workers to […] More
Alion Science and Technology will help the Defense Threat Reduction Agency develop a boron-coated straw system to detect dirty bombs and special nuclear materials under a $2.8 million contract. Alion said Thursday that agencies have traditionally used Helium-3 neutron detectors but a shortage of the rare isotope is driving agencies to seek a replacement technology. The company will […] More
IBM and the Philippines’ department of science and technology have collaborated to build a central hub for coordinating emergency response and relief efforts in the event of a natural disaster in the Philippines. The Quezon City-based Intelligent Operations Center was built through the company’s impact grant program and will work to help Philippine government agencies with disaster […] More
The Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aircraft Global Hawk recorded 665 flight hours during exercise and operational activities for the week that ended Feb. 23, 2014. To date, the high altitude long endurance drone has flown more than 110,000 hours to support global missions of the Air Force, Navy and NASA, Northrop said Wednesday. Global Hawk logged 433.8 hours […] More
Red Hat Inc. has opened a new office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in a move to provide open source services to existing and new customers in the country. Red Hat seeks to train local talent and engage local OpenStack and open source developer communities as part of its expansion in Indonesia, Red Hat said May 12. […] More
ICF International‘s London-based subsidiary GHK has adopted the “ICF International” brand in an effort to reflect both the parent company’s and subsidiary’s consulting work in the private and public sectors. GHK has been part of ICF since 2012Â and offers advisory services to government organizations, donor agencies and multilateral development institutions, ICF said Wednesday. “Changing the […] More
