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Battelle has launched the latest version of its HELM Flow software to help grid transmission modelers and planners at utility companies manage transmission networks and response to grid problems. “When planning transmission on the grid, the small subset of about 5 percent of the problems cause the biggest headaches,” Jason Black, grid team research leader at Battelle, said Tuesday. […] More
Inmarsat has signed an agreement with ORBIT Communication Systems to help manufacture Global Xpress aviation terminals and identify other opportunities to leverage the technology to drive adoption of the GX satellite broadband service. The companies said Wednesday ORBIT will provide its airborne tracking and communication antenna terminals for GX as they serve the government market. Andy Start, president of Inmarsat’s […] More
Engility Holdings President and CEO Tony Smeraglinolo says the company is continuing its decade-long support for the Treasury Department through a recompete contract for the department’s Secure Payment System program. The company announced Wednesday that its Dynamics Research Corp. subsidiary was awarded the $13.4 million contract from the department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Engility expects to to help the bureau’s payment […] More
Analytical Mechanics Associates will extend its engineering support for NASA‘s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia under the company’s third option in its contract with the space agency. The contract option has a one-year period of performance beginning Oct. 1 and is valued at around $50 million, NASA said Monday. The full indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is worth up to $341.3 million and covers scientific research; […] More
CAE has secured four training systems contracts totaling $103.3 million from global defense clients, as group president for defense and security Gene Colabatistto reiterates the company’s focus on its integrated training solutions portfolio. The company said Wednesday its new contracts are to provide or upgrade training and visual systems for the New Zealand, German and Iraqi air force, as well […] More
NTT DATA is expanding its operations in Canada by establishing an Advanced Development Centre in Nova Scotia. “Nova Scotia has proven to be an ideal location for us since we opened our office under the name Keane, Inc. in 1997,” Dean Williams, NTT’s executive vice president of global human capital, said Friday. NTT DATA Canada said it will be […] More
Microsoft will collaborate with Redox Power Systems, Trans-Tech and the University of Maryland to carry out a $5 million government-funded research project on fuel cells as power source for data centers, Data Center Knowledge reported Tuesday. Yevgeniy Sverdlik writes the project will use methane-powered fuel cells installed in data center IT racks to differentiate from an earlier research […] More
Cubic has partnered with Gulf Coast State College, Gulf Power and Florida’s Port Panama City in evaluating products and services to support the Internet of Things and training for job opportunities in the field. The partnership is intended to combine the efforts of local industry, academic institutions and government agencies to create jobs that meet the needs of the Internet of […] More
Chris Checco, president and chief analytics officer of Razorsight, says data science is growing its influence in business as companies continue adopting analytics products and finding more applications for insights generated from data. In an interview posted recently on the Data Science Weekly blog, Checco discussed how data science has been turning into a business requirement as a supplement to give […] More
Genesys today announced that the Business Edition on the Genesys Customer Experience Platform was selected by Red Hat to help transform customer experience in the cloud while striving to provide reliability and high-performance hybrid cloud technologies to customers worldwide. Red Hat chose the platform on their capability to offer a fully-integrated cloud-based customer experience, evaluated […] More
In-Q-Tel has invested and signed an agreement with Vorbeck Materials on the development of the latter company’s graphene technology for applications in the intelligence community and commercial electronics industry. “This collaboration will speed the adoption of graphene-based technologies, leading to robust and versatile consumer electronics products,” John Lettow, Vorbeck Materials president, said Monday. According to Vorbeck, the agreement is geared toward further development […] More
Red Hat has announced a new cloud management certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform, within commerical ecosystem of the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network. The certification offers businesses assurance that their OpenStack-based cloud data and management offerings are test-worthy and have been approved by Red Hat and participating countries, the company said. […] More
