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A Bechtel and Siemens alliance has completed work to build a 758-megawatt combined-cycle gas plant in Sherman, Texas, for Panda Power Funds. The companies finished commissioning of the Panda Sherman Power natural gas facility two weeks ahead of schedule, Bechtel said Thursday. Bechtel managed the overall project and led construction, procurement and engineering work, while […] More

Battelle and ID Quantique have formed an industry alliance group in a move to combat potential security threats posed by adversarial quantum computers. The Quantum-Safe Security Working Group will work to educate, adopt and apply quantum key distribution and post-quantum cryptography to help government agencies and enterprises protect their critical infrastructures, Battelle said Wednesday. “Forming the QSS working group will allow us […] More

Lockheed Martin has opened a new innovation center for the research and development of technologies for the U.S. Navy in a push to continue work on new products for the branch. The Surface Navy Innovation Center will serve as a research, development and demonstration facility for industry, government and academia researchers to develop new combat systems, Lockheed said Wednesday. “The SNIC establishes […] More

Lockheed Martin and Concord Blue have expanded their partnership to build a power plant in Herten, Germany, that will be designed to generate up to five megawatts of biomass electricity. Lockheed said Wednesday it will design, construct and engineer the bioenergy generation facility with the goal of delivering electric power to approximately 5,000 households and […] More

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has highlighted the company’s partnership with the Energy Department, universities and industry in addressing the challenges in the energy sector and encouraging careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Hewson said Tuesday in her address during the first anniversary of DOE’s Minorities in Energy project that Lockheed supports the agency in meeting the energy needs […] More

Alex Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, says that seven trends across federal agencies could initiate a potential 21-percent growth in cloud investments in the public sector over the next five years. Rossino writes Tuesday that the market for commercial cloud services will reach a value of $6.5 billion by 2019 due to the need for policies, tools, […] More

SGI will offer its customers Seagate Technology‘s storage appliances under a reselling partnership agreement that targets academic, industry and government markets with their combined storage and high-performance computing products. The companies said Tuesday SGI customers will have access to Seagate’s ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance, ClusterStor 1500, ClusterStor 6000 and ClusterStor 900. Jorge Titinger, president and CEO of SGI, said he expects the partnership to help […] More

HumanTouch will provide the General Services Administration with a software-as-a-service platform designed to integrate and manage enterprise information technology functions. GSA picked the company’s EnLight SaaS application to help agency personnel monitor IT programs, investments and portfolios across the organization, HumanTouch said Tuesday. “EnLight is an example of the type of solution organizations can configure […] More

Lockheed Martin‘s F-35C Lightning II aircraft has completed an initial round of at-sea development tests aboard the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, where the Joint Strike Fighter performed nighttime landings and other maneuvers. The U.S. Navy said Monday that the F-35 Lightning II Integrated Test Force of the Naval Air Station Patuxent River’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 evaluated the aircraft’s suitability and […] More

Lockheed Martin has entered the final production stage of a new Mars lander that is scheduled for launch by NASA in March 2016. The company said Monday its technicians will integrate avionics, power, telecommunication, navigation, control, guidance and thermal systems in the InSight spacecraft during the six-month assembly phase. “Physically, InSight looks very much like […] More

Raytheon has won a contract to manufacture hyperspectral imaging technology for two Earth-observation spacecraft under development by Boeing. Boeing is building the satellites for HySpecIQ and chose Raytheon to provide sensing instruments intended to capture data across the electromagnetic spectrum, Raytheon said Monday. According to Raytheon, the satellite sensors will work to provide analysts with […] More