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The U.S. Army‘s Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command has adopted a Textron Systems product for personnel to collect, analyze and share socio-cultural data during missions. “The software has the ability to ingest random, disconnected cultural cues and events and transform them into predictable and actionable portraits of potential activity,” Steve Overly, senior vice president and general […] More
Serco will continue providing management support to Britain’s National Physical Laboratory under a one-year contract extension with the U.K.’s department for business, innovation and skills. The company will work with the department to transition four universities into a government-owned/contractor-operated business model, Serco said Friday. Ian Downie, managing director of Serco’s strategic partnerships unit, said the company will […] More
ETL Systems will provide its radio frequency signal distribution technology for three satellites in Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress constellation. Boeing selected ETL to supply the technology for the satellite, one of which Boeing built with 89 beams and six spot beams, ETL said Thursday. ETL’s Alto line amplifiers and RF splitters/combiners are intended for GX’s ground segment, which work to distribute RF […] More
Siemens and Shanghai Electric Group have signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese utility company Huaneng Power International to further develop gas turbine, steam turbine and wind power technology. Huaneng intends to bolster its power generation efficiency and sustainability work in the area of clean energy development, Siemens said Friday “We can look back on a long and successful partnership […] More
Teresa Carlson serves as the vice president of the world wide public sector at Amazon Web Services where she is responsible for operations, strategy, sales and business development. The more than 20-year industry veteran is also the head public policy advisor for the global public sector at AWS and oversees revenue and partnership strategy. Prior to joining […] More
Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies will provide NASA‘s Intelligent Systems division with research and development services under a three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $300 million. Greenbelt, Md.-based SGT will also support the NASA division’s technology infusion on missions as part of the contract, which begins April 1, the agency said Wednesday. The R&D work will be performed at NASA’s Ames Research […] More
Computer Sciences Corp. and VMware will jointly offer customers a tool to migrate workloads between both companies’ respective cloud computing platforms and to conduct collaborative technical training for client-facing personnel. The companies said Thursday their hybrid cloud brokering product is intended to help users operate VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service in conjunction with CSC’s BizCloud and CloudCompute through CSC’s ServiceMesh Agility Platform. […] More
Sterling Global Operations is seeking to grow its oil and gas, mine clearing and other work in Kurdistan and Iraq by expanding its Kurdish operations center and constructing a regional logistics hub. The new 200,000 sq ft logistics hub near Erbil, capital of the Kurdish region, will be used for equipment storage, employee training and vehicle maintenance services, the stability operations company said Wednesday. According to Alan […] More
Serco will continue its air navigation services for the Sharjah International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, and offer air traffic control personnel training, under a $11.6 million contract with the Sharjah Civil Aviation Department. The company will also support the upgrade of the air traffic control tower and planning for a new runway, Serco said Wednesday. According to David Greer, Serco […] More
A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky Aircraft has started construction work on a complex that will house maintenance work on the Australian navy’s fleet of 24 MH-60R maritime helicopters. The Maritime Helicopter Support Company broke ground on the new maintenance and warehouse facilities and expects construction to finish in early 2015,  the company announced Wednesday. Representatives from Brisbane-based Sikorsky […] More
Raytheon plans to transfer its operations from Garland, Texas to a new office complex in Richardson by the fourth quarter of the company’s 2015 fiscal year. The company intends to construct three buildings at the Richardson site on 489,000 square feet of space, Raytheon announced Wednesday. Raytheon’s Garland complex houses employees from the company’s missile systems; space […] More
James Cook, MITRE Corp. vice president and director of the Center for Enterprise Modernization, has been named to Federal Computer Week’s Federal 100 list, the company said Wednesday. Cook first appeared on the list in 2007 for his work with the Internal Revenue Service. The list of award winners is based on employees that “have gone […] More
