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Mobile communications operators could lose customers at increasing rates if the Federal Communications Commission implements a plan to unlock all mobile devices, Razorsight CEO Charlie Thomas writes in an April 15 op-ed piece for RCR Wireless. According to Thomas, operators are looking to apply big data and predictive analytics methods for addressing customer issues at faster times […] More
Microsoft will allocate $274 million in investments to expand the company’s operations in Cheyenne, Wyo. and add a new cloud computing infrastructure there, Data Center Knowledge reported Saturday. Rich Miller writes that the plan would increase the company’s total spending in Wyoming to nearly $500 million. The company plans to start construction of the new […] More
Lockheed Martin President and CEO Marillyn Hewson and MBDA Germany Managing Director Thomas Homberg spoke at a German Council on Foreign Relations event Monday to discuss an air and missile defense system program. “For Germany as well as its co-operation partners, the MEADS technology development results create the prerequisites for building sustainable air and missile defense tailored to current and […] More
Joe Stein, the retired U.S. Air Force Major General who most recently helped lead the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense’s policy posture with NATO and Europe, has joined SkyLink Aviation as the firm’s senior executive for operational strategy. The company pointed to Stein’s leadership experience as a commander of large aviation organizations, and at […] More
Dexter Conrad has been appointed business development manager for training and simulation at Intelligent Decisions, the company said Monday. The more than 20-year military and industry veteran has held senior management roles at L-3 Communications and Engility Corp. “Dexter’s experience will allow ID to better prepare our military for the situations they will encounter in theater and will […] More
The public-private partnership between Xerox and the City of Indianapolis reports increased revenue from its 2010 project to upgrade the city’s parking meter system. Xerox said Thursday the ParkIndy project has led to revenues of $2.7 million and a $12 million reinvestment on city infrastructure improvements. These solar-powered parking meters accept payment via credit card or phone applications such as […] More
The Bechtel-led Dulles Transit Partners team has nearly completed the first phase of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project in conjunction with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The Silver Line project includes five stations, six miles of elevated track, an underground tunnel and 11.7-mile rail line connecting Reston, Va. to the orange line, Bechtel said Thursday. “Substantial completion is an important milestone that […] More
A Huntington Ingalls Industries division is partnering with Old Dominion University on a joint apprentice and degree program where students will have the opportunity to earn a bachelor of science degree while completing a marine engineer apprenticeship, Huntington Ingalls said Wednesday. Newport News Shipbuilding says it will provide on-the-job engineering experience on some of the most complex […] More
Lockheed Martin will work with the U.S. Army to design, build and test a 60-kilowatt electric laser under a $25 million contract as the military seeks to acquire laser technology for countering rockets, artillery, mortars and unmanned aerial vehicles. The company aims for its laser to use several rugged fiber laser modules to generate a single output […] More
Siemens is set to deploy Teradata technology to leverage data from sensors, machines and other traditionally structured and unstructured sources to optimize its manufacturing services and product quality. The companies said Wednesday that the deployment of Teradata’s Unified Data Architecture, as part of Siemens’ enterprise-wide efforts, includes Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance, Teradata Aster Discovery Platform and Teradata Appliance for Hadoop. “The Teradata UDA makes […] More
A model of a three-dimensional navigation technology built by Google will support NASA‘s floating service robots at the International Space Station, EE Times reported Monday. Kevin Fogarty writes that Project Tango is an offshoot of Google’s modular phone project that features a vision processor, depth sensor and a motion-tracking camera. According to the report, NASA will use Tango to […] More
DLT Solutions has released a private cloud computing offering to integrate Red Hat‘s OpenShift Enterprise and Amazon Web Services into an environment for users to develop, test and deploy applications. CODEvolved is designed to expedite the software development and deployment process, the company said Wednesday. David Blankenhorn, chief cloud technologist at DLT, said the company aimed to connect users with […] More
