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Dell, Three Wire Systems and enterprise software developer Sqrrl have forged an alliance with the goal of delivering a big data management platform for U.S. government cyber operators. The companies seek to offer federal customers a technology for managing emails, system configurations, audits, intelligence feeds, networks and social collaborations across an enterprise, Three Wire says. […] More
Jacobs Engineering Group has received a contract for an undisclosed amount from the Delaware Department of Transportation for various system support work, Jacobs said Tuesday. Jacobs will help plan event and incident management as well as conduct homeland security inspections, evaluations and reviews of current infrastructure. “We are very pleased to receive this award from the Delaware […] More
Exelis has delivered the first of four meteorological payloads for a future U.S. weather satellite of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, moving the program forward toward the planned satellite launch in 2016, Exelis said Tuesday Eric Webster, Exelis Geospatial Systems vice president for weather systems, said, “Delivery . . . is an important milestone because it […] More
Elbit Systems will maintain and operate simulators for Israel’s defense ministry under a five-year, $23 million contract. The contract covers work on fixed and mobile ground simulators used by the country’s army, Elbit said Wednesday. Israel uses the simulators to train forces on using armored combat vehicles, tanks and on carrying out other types of military […] More
IHS Jane’s is projecting a 0.6 percent rise in military budgets worldwide during 2014, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. The annual defense budgets review attributed that growth to the increase in demands for arms in Asia, the Middle East and Russia, according to the report. “We have seen substantial increases in defense spending from countries like […] More
Airbus Group Innovations and EOS have partnered to assess and compare environmental lifecycles of two aircraft production technologies. The team applied the rapid investment casting and direct metal laser sintering processes to an Airbus A320 nacelle hinge bracket for overall lifecycle benchmarking, EOS said Tuesday. Jon Meyer, additive layer manufacturing research team lead at EOS, […] More
Battelle has been awarded a five-year, $12.6 million contract to help run a national repository of human biological samples for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nonprofit research firm will help CDC maintain blood, tissue, urine and genomic specimens that are stored inside large metal vats at the agency’s CASPIR biostorage facility in […] More
Brent Shafer has been tapped to serve as the next chief executive officer of Philips North America where he will be responsible for the company’s operations in the healthcare, consumer lifestyle and lighting markets. Shafer succeeds Greg Sebasky who retired Feb. 3 and will report directly to Frans van Houten, Royal Philips CEO, the company […] More
Michael Wilmer, a defense sector veteran formerly employed by Booz Allen Hamilton, has been named chief operating officer at enterprise integrity monitoring company Thacher Associates LLC. He brings more than three decades of leadership experience to his new position and will aim to help the organization grow and implement compliance programs for corporate clients, Thacher […] More
Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., has joined the board of directors of venture philanthropy and social innovation organization New Profit Inc. Salzberg will support New Profit’s growth strategy and work to help develop new approaches for driving social change such as finding financing vehicles and public-private partnerships, New Profit announced Tuesday. He said that New […] More
Autodesk will donate $250 million in technology resources to a White House program aimed at helping secondary school teachers prepare students for STEAM careers (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics). The company will provide teachers at more than 27,000 U.S. secondary schools with 3D design software, project-based lessons, training and certifications through its Design the […] More
CACI International will manage system security and support business intelligence reporting work for the Interior Department’s business integration office under a potential five-year, $95 million contract, according to a Jan. 31 FedBizOpps post. DOI aims to leverage software products such as SAP ECC, SAP BusinessObjects and Compusearch PRISM to further develop mobile and light applications, the […] More
