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Siemens AG will soon start construction on an e-highway project designed to reduce air pollution in California’s traffic-prone areas. The South Coast Air Quality Management District has approved the test route close to the state’s largest ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Siemens said Wednesday. The company will collaborate with carmakers for the electric […] More
Northrop Grumman continues to support incoming college students who intend to pursue science and math degrees by awarding two new grant recipients during the company’s 10th Engineering Scholars Program ceremony. Graduating seniors Rick Hallman from Prospect High School and Nicholas Ratajczyk from William Fremd High School became the latest to receive $10,000 merit scholarships from Northrop […] More
Jim Reinhart, chief operating officer for development and operations at QTS, said the company has added hybrid connectivity to its enterprise cloud offering to give clients more options to fulfill their information technology requirements. “Our strategy for the QTS Enterprise Cloud has always been to make it scalable and cost-efficient for our customers, whose information […] More
Chris Morris, CH2M HILL Australia and New Zealand geography manager, said the company and its partners have been chosen to build a water treatment facility in Western Australia that would be designed as a safe source of drinking water for the state in the coming decades. The plant will initially churn out 14 billion liters of […] More
TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has teamed up with O3b Networks to provide O3b’s satellite network services to TCS’ government and commercial clients through contract vehicles. “D” D’Ambrosio, O3b Networks executive vice president of government solutions, said Monday TCS will deploy communications services to remote areas with “O3b’s fiber speed and satellite reach.†O3b’s medium Earth-orbit constellation […] More
Kevin Amis, DDG 1000 Program director at Ingalls Shipbuilding, highlighted the company’s latest contribution to the new generation of warships as it delivered the composite deckhouse for the U.S. Navy’s latest destroyer. The Huntington Ingalls Industries division manufactured the USS Michael Monsoor’s 900-ton carbon fiber structure at its Composite Center of Excellence facility in Gulfport, […] More
Companies should implement big data strategies to address challenges as they accumulate data with multiple attributes, relationships and sources, Adnan Khaleel writes for YarcData. Khaleel said Thursday the strategy should be based on the concept that big data is both the source and result of business decision-making as part of a cycle centered on data, analytics, information and strategy. This […] More
KPMG has released the firm’s latest mergers and acquisitions global trends report that indicates M&A deals rose 26 percent between January and June of 2014. Tom Franks, global head of corporate finance at KPMG, said Thursday that “appetite for M&A deals remains strong, capacity is going up and we are starting to see an increasing number of deals […] More
Dan Geer, In-Q-Tel’s chief information security officer, has proposed a set of policies that he believes industry and the government could adopt in order to respond to cyber attacks, Defense One reported Thursday. Patrick Tucker writes Geer shared his recommendations for governing the software industry during the Black Hat cybersecurity conference Wednesday. Geer recommended the government mandate […] More
Autonomic Resources has added new features to its cloud service offering in an effort to give government agency customers direct access to the platform. The company designed the new ARC-P On Premise to replicate the cloud platform on agency premise in order to deliver services that are similar for both physical and virtual machines, Autonomic […] More
IBM Corp. has teamed with Shanghai Wind Information to offer cloud-based analytics tools to Wind Info’s customers with the goal of helping them meet regulations and reduce financial risks. Wind Info will integrate IBM’s risk management software into the company’s trading terminals to develop a hybrid tool for processing risk data in the cloud, IBM […] More
IBM researchers have produced a computer chip that is designed to simulate human brain function without needing to consume large amounts of energy under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s SyNAPSE program. The computing architecture is built with 5.4 billion transistors and 256 million programmable logic points that are modeled after the brain’s neuronal structure, DARPA said Thursday. […] More
