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in News, Philanthropy
Wes Bush: Northrop Makes Virginia Tech Contribution With C4ISR, Unmanned Focus
Northrop GrummanÂ has agreed to invest $750,000 in Virginia Techâ€™s scholarship and faculty fellowship programs. The donation will go toward the university’sÂ senior faculty fellowship in advanced intelligence systems and scholarship program in military leadership for the students of Corps of Cadets and College of Engineering, Virginia Tech said Thursday. â€œWe expect that this initiative will contribute […] More
by Neel Mehta May 12, 2015, 12:00 am
in News, Products & Service
IBMâ€™s Servers, Storage Systems Targeted at Hybrid Cloud Adopters; Don Boulia Comments
IBM has introduced a line of Power System servers and a range of storage systems designed to help clients facilitate processing of large-scale data in hybrid cloud settings. IBM Power System E850 can manage 4-terabyte databases, while IBM PurePower System can run with OpenStack open-source cloud computing software and has virtualization hypervisor with no record […] More
by Elizabeth Leigh May 11, 2015, 1:44 pm
in News, Products & Service
Elma Electronic Unveils Cisco-Certified Routers for Defense, Emergency Response Missions
Elma Electronic has launched a series ofÂ Cisco-certified fanless routers designed to facilitate secure transmission of data, video and voice communications across wired and wireless systems during military, disaster recovery, emergency response and other mission-critical operations. The SWaP-optimized S50E-1 Rugged Cisco 5915 router is equipped with a rugged chassis design and three switching ports, while the […] More
by Elizabeth Leigh May 11, 2015, 1:30 pm
in Healthcare IT, News
ONC Grants $300K for Six Health IT Projects
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded $300,000 in total grants to six teams of developers and healthcare organizations that aim to live-test new health IT applications. The medical app developers were chosen and matched with healthcare providers through ONC’s Market R&D Challenge, according to a blog post published Tuesday […] More
by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 11, 2015, 11:47 am
in News, Products & Service
Northrop to Test USAF Hardware, Software for Nuclear Safety Compliance
Northrop Grumman will perform independent testing and evaluation of software and hardware forÂ Minuteman III nuclear safety under a $99.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said ThursdayÂ the contract covers nuclear safety cross-check analysis, performance analysis, technical evaluation and independent validation and verification. The tests will aim to ensure that the software […] More
by Anna Forrester May 11, 2015, 11:41 am
in Industry News, News
CGI to Refresh England Highway Agency’s IT; Steve Thorn Comments
CGI has been selected to refresh the information technology infrastructure of Highways England as the U.K. Transport Departmentâ€™s agency transitions to a government-owned company. The company will supply laptops and tablets to Highways England under the three-year information and communications technology services contract, CGI said Monday. â€œWe are delighted to have been awarded this strategic […] More
by Jay Clemens May 11, 2015, 10:57 am
in Cybersecurity News, News
PwC’s Stewart Room: Product Privacy, Security Key for ‘Internet of Things’ Companies
Stewart Room, head of cybersecurity and data protection for PwC‘s legal practice, has urgedÂ businesses in theÂ Internet of Things market to build up their privacy and security measures, Computing reported Friday. “If any business gets this wrong, what they are running towards is a serious trust, confidence and legal crisis,” Room said at an eventÂ PwC co-hosted […] More
by Anna Forrester May 11, 2015, 10:42 am
in Industry News, News
HP to Extend IT Support for California Welfare Services Network
Hewlett Packard has received a five-year, $305 million contract extension to help run a web-based system for the Californiaâ€™s Welfare Client Data Systems consortium to manage public assistance services. The CalWORKS Information Network system is designed to manage approximately 40 percent of the entire welfare caseload in the state and process as many as 22 […] More
by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 11, 2015, 8:39 am
in Industry News, News
GSA to Hold Webinar on Federated Digital ID Ecosystem Program
The General Services AdministrationÂ will have an industry day webinar to discuss the request for information it released in April for Connect.gov’sÂ federated digital identity ecosystem. GSA said in theÂ notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps that the webinar is scheduled on June 2 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The agency will provide information on the operational models […] More
by Anna Forrester May 11, 2015, 8:27 am
in News
Markus Koerner: IBM Platform to Help Int’l Researchers Store Environmental Data
IBM has provided a big data technology to the German Climate Computing Center to aid in environmental information storage and analysis efforts. The center adopted the High Performance Storage System with the goal of helping researchers manage petabytes of climate simulation data, IBM said Friday. IBM built the HPSS platform in collaboration with the U.S. […] More
by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 11, 2015, 7:18 am
in Government Cloud, News
Pivotal, Mirantis Form OpenStack-Based Cloud Foundry Alliance; James Watters Comments
Pivotal and Mirantis have teamed up to offer the Cloud Foundry service on Mirantisâ€™ OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure. Under the partnership, Pivotal will run its Cloud Foundry-based platform-as-a-service on Mirantis OpenStack and Mirantis will distribute Pivotal Cloud Foundry to clients, Pivotal said Monday. James Watters, vice president and general manager of the cloud platform group at […] More
by Jay Clemens May 11, 2015, 6:33 am
in News, Products & Service
AECOM to Support Navy Facility Design Projects in Europe, Africa, SW Asia
AECOM will prepare documentation on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps facilities planning and environmental activities in Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia under a $45 million architect-engineering contract. The Defense Department said FridayÂ AECOM’s technical services arm will support theÂ Naval Facilities Engineering Command‘s design projects in the EURAFSWA area of responsibility through May 2020. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract […] More
by Anna Forrester May 11, 2015, 5:18 am