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Ursula English, most recently director of Boeing‘s commercial aviation services business, has been appointed vice president of the company’s environment, health and safety organization. English will start in the role Friday and will be responsible for the company’s workplace safety programs and environmental performance the company announced Tuesday. She will report to John Tracy, the […] More
Steven John Norris has been elected to join the board of directors at Cubic Corp. to provide his insights on transport and infrastructure issues. Norris, a previous member of Cubic Transportation Systems’ strategic advisory board, will also serve in the company’s nominating and corporate governance committee, Cubic announced Tuesday. Norris is a businessman based in the […] More
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and South Korea’s aerospace research body have started to build two air quality sensors that are intended to aid in environmental monitoring operations. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution tool is being built to gather atmospheric pollution data across North America, Mexico City, Canadian tar and oil sands, the Atlantic […] More
General Dynamics‘ ship operating subsidiary has been awarded by the U.S. Navy with a contract modification worth $32.7 million to provide operations and maintenance services for the Military Sealift Command‘s seven large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ships. General Dynamics American Overseas Marine will provide crewing, engineering, procurement and provisioning support for the vessels as part of the potential seven-year, $238 million contract originally awarded […] More
Boston Medical Center has transitioned its database environment to an Oracle-built application in a move to consolidate its health data management. LCN Technology, a Gold level member of Oracle’s PartnerNetwork, has worked to assist the medical center implement the database appliance with Oracle database and application clusters, Oracle said Tuesday. Boston Medical Center aims to […] More
Verizon Enterprise Solutions recommends that companies partner with a managed security service provider to defend their networks against cyberattacks as they turn to technologies such as mobility, big data and cloud. Janet Brumfield, the company’s director of corporate communications, said Tuesday that hybrid cybersecurity-management model is seen as the solution to meet these c0mpanies’ needs. Such needs involve “more sophisticated […] More
Nearly 90 percent of 450 North American businesses surveyed by Neustar experienced repeat distributed denial of service attacks in 2013. Data from Neustar’s “DDoS Attacks and Impacts Report” indicates that DDoS threats cost enterprises millions of dollars in downtime, brand damage and customer support, Neustar said Tuesday. Neustar found that more DDoS perpetrators use a”smokescreening” […] More
Exelis has updated an aircraft tracking system used by the Federal Aviation Administration as the company and agency aim to help air traffic controllers transmit data to pilots. The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast technology was developed in 2007 to track the locations of airplanes by using GPS systems, Exelis said Monday. “The completion of the ADS-B network […] More
Cisco has rolled out a cybersecurity service meant to help customers detect advanced persistent threats and protect extended networks from malware intrusions. The Managed Threat Defense offering is comprised of software, hardware and analytics tools for identifying security risks that cannot be detected by anti-virus programs, Cisco said Tuesday. A global network of Cisco security […] More
EMCOR Group Inc. has been selected to help the government maintain various facilities across several locations in the U.S. EMCOR’s government services division will perform customer service, maintenance and repair of U.S. Coast Guard training centers in Yorktown, Va., the company said Tuesday. Michael Rodgers, president of EMCOR Government Services, said the company intends to […] More
HP Enterprise Services will help configure and implement a new Medicaid management system for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing under a five-year, $116.9 million contract. As Colorado’s Medicaid fiscal agent, the company will also manage maintenance and upgrade work for the Medicaid Management Information System that is based on HP’s interChange Healthcare platform, HP said Tuesday. “The […] More
A General Dynamics business unit has opened a facility in Scottsdale, Ariz. to assess radio terminals that are intended to support the U.S. Navy‘s Mobile User Objective System communications network. General Dynamics C4 Systems equipped the MUOS Radio Testing Lab with hardware and software tools to simulate radio interoperability with the satellite constellation’s ground station, […] More
