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URS Corp. will work with We Energies to convert Milwaukee-based Valley Power Plant into a natural gas production facility from a coal plant. URS said Monday that the team will replace the plant’s coal-burning equipment with natural-gas piping and burners, as well asw modify combustion controls and other auxiliary equipment and plant controls. Art Lembo, general manager for URS’ power […] More
Cambridge International Systems will help the U.S. Army work to increase the branch’s Internet Protocol transport router network from 10 gigabits to 100 gigabits. The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded a potential three-year, $30 million task order to Cambridge for the work under the Global Information Grid Services and Management-Engineering, Transition and Implementation vehicle, Cambridge said Wednesday. This is […] More
Panama’s civil aviation authority has unveiled a new Thales-developed radar air traffic control center intended to handle the entire country’s airspace. The TopSky-ATC traffic control center is built to accommodate 12 control working positions, Thales Group said Thursday. Raphael Cervantes, director of sales for Latin America of Thales’s air traffic management business, said the company has worked […] More
Siemens AG and China-based Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. Ltd. have formed a joint venture to develop electric powertrain systems for the Chinese green drive-technologies market. The Beijing Siemens Automotive E-Drive System JV will be established to produce electric drivetrain parts such as power-electronics and electric motors, Siemens said Sunday. The company aims to help […] More
Northrop Grumman has opened a fresh aircraft integration center in St. Augustine, Fla., where the company has been operating for 34 years. The site is expected to create 400 new jobs over the next three years, Northrop Grumman said Thursday. Tom Vice, Northrop Grumman corporate vice president and president of aerospace systems, said the new facility […] More
ORBCOMM has moved its network control center to a new facility in Sterling, Va. from the hub’s former location in Dulles. Marc Eisenberg, CEO of ORBCOMM, said Wednesday the company intends to use the new innovation and network control center to help further its business expansion strategy. “This state-of-the-art facility allows us to bring together key […] More
OceanWorks International has delivered additional ocean floor nodes to Harris CapRock Communications for running and maintaining CSnet International‘s offshore communications system. Scientists work to gather real-time data from seafloor sensors by using the offshore communications backbone infrastructure, OceanWorks International said Friday. The OceanWorks-built communications system consists of five seafloor nodes that form the seafloor observatory. […] More
Agilent Technologies Inc. has awarded Princeton University professor Joshua Rabinowitz a thought leader award intended to expand the company’s support of quantitative analysis of cellular metabolism. The award will support Rabinowitz’ global cell metabolism and regulation research using Agilent’s 6550 MS-QTOF, a mass spectromertry tool, the company announced Thursday. The partnership’s goal is to ultimately […] More
Battelle has signed an agreement with the U.S. Green Building Council to find the “real value” of green building design and construction. The USGBC Central Ohio Chapter has selected Battelle to execute the Green Schools Research Program’s educational component, the company announced Wednesday. Battelle will use statistical modeling techniques to define whether or not there is a […] More
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected as a recipient of an avionics supplier of the year award from Boeing, which evaluated 14,000 suppliers in 16 categories from 50 countries. Boeing chose Ball Aerospace for the award based on performance and contributions to antenna programs for the F/A-18 jet and the Harpoon, Ball Aerospace announced Friday. […] More
Raytheon has selected two schools within the Vail School District to receive a total of $37,000 in scholarship to promote engineering concepts and practices, Arizona Daily Star reported Thursday. Alexis Huicochea writes that the award is part of the company’s $2 million Engineering is Elementary District Scholarship science, technology, engineering and math program. Under the […] More
Lindsay Ritter, formerly sustainability director for CH2M HILL‘s operations management group, has been appointed global practice lead for the firm’s asset and operations management unit within the transportation sector. The firm said Friday Ritter will oversee best practices and business opportunities covering the aviation, bridges, highways, ports and maritime and transit and rail market segments. She will also […] More
