Government Technology

An AWS panel will pick seven winners for the practices and partners in innovation categories for the City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge between May and June, AWS said Tuesday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector at AWS, said the contest is intended to recognize municipalities and partners who could help develop […] More

Verizon has joined an organization that promotes Linux through the use of open source software for the communications industry. The company will act as a licensee of the Open Invention Network and also becomes the organization’s first major communications service provider member, OIN announced Tuesday. OIN develops software and patents that are royalty-free to any […] More

Joslin Diabetes Center has moved to grow its clinical trial research work and collaborations with industry by joining the Oracle Health Sciences Network. Boston-based Joslin will upload authorized and de-identified clinical data in an Oracle cloud environment as a network member, Oracle announced Tuesday. Jonathan Sheldon, Oracle Health Sciences global vice president, said the network’s goal is […] More

Northrop Grumman has launched a new program for non-U.S. citizens studying in the country to gain professional experience in the cyber, program management and computer engineering fields. The externship program is a joint project with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the company announced Tuesday. Chosen students from accredited universities will participate in an eight-week […] More

Top executives at World Wide Technology plan to attend the upcoming 2014 Cisco Partner Summit in Las Vegas to learn more about Cisco’s future plans for its partnership program, WWT announced in a recent blog post. Sarah Clark writes that the company expects that Cisco will discuss the development of its TrustSec model, the Hybrid IT and InterCloud technology during […] More

Thales has been selected by Paris-based transport operator RATP to equip 1,000 buses and trams with the company’s video technology. The new contract brings the total number of RATP-owned buses and trams with Thales’ On Board Video 8000 tool to 5,000 since 2002, the company announced Friday. On Board Video 8000 products are built to help buses […] More

Iron Mountain will present at the next Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers meeting that will focus on the evolution of the Internet, including the launch of new generic top-level domains. The 170 new gTLDs such as .holdings and .careers are intended to help companies build up their web presences and industry activities, as well as require […] More

An international business school based in Madrid, Spain has chosen to deploy a unified server platform built Cisco in order to update the school’s data processing center. IE Business School purchased the Cisco Unified Computing System in order to have a centralized computing, network, storage and virtualization setup for the data processing center, Cisco announced […] More

A cross domain security product developed by Raytheon was selected as gold winner in the security products and solutions for government category at the 2014 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards. Raytheon was presented the award for its Trusted Thin Client product at the 10th annual RSA Conference USA 2014 awards in San Francisco, the […] More

Raytheon and its employees will observe “Pi Day” on Friday to promote programs related to science, technology, engineering and math by delivering applies pies to math teachers in six states. The company will deliver the pies to teachers within 3.14 miles of its facilities in Arizona, California, Virginia, Florida, Massachusetts and Maryland, Raytheon announced Thursday. Other projects […] More

A suite oif Exelis products used to detect and locate interference against GPS systems was used during Super Bowl XLVIII, held Feb. 2 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Law enforcement officials used Signal Sentry 1000 to protect critical GPS infrastructure during the game as they worked to detect and locate potential jamming sources, Exelis said Wednesday. […] More

CA Technologies has been named a corporate partner of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and will support research, workshops and conferences covering business impacts of technology. The company said Wednesday the partnership also involves CA’s Silicon Valley Technology Center and Wharton’s M.B.A. campus in San Francisco. “All businesses, no matter the […] More