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  • Jacobs, UK Nuclear Regulation Office Ink 5-Year Technical Support Deal
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    Jacobs, UK Nuclear Regulation Office Ink 5-Year Technical Support Deal

    Jacobs Engineering Group will provide the the U.K.’s nuclear regulation office with technical support for safety and operations of current and future nuclear facilities under a five-year framework agreement. The company will support ONR’s civil engineering, internal and external hazards, radioactive waste and decommissioning programs, Jacobs said Tuesday. ONR was established in 2011 to oversee the U.K.’s nuclear regulations. More

  • Christopher Dziekan Appointed Pentaho Chief Product Officer
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    Christopher Dziekan Appointed Pentaho Chief Product Officer

    Christopher Dziekan, formerly vice president of product strategy for business analytics at IBM, has joined Pentaho as chief product officer and will lead that company’s blended big data discovery and advanced analytics initiatives. “We are excited to have Chris join Pentaho to drive our product strategy and continue to differentiate Pentaho’s big data and embedded analytics […] More

  • Stephen Boyle, Oracle Vet, Joins Microsoft as Enterprise Partnership VP
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    Stephen Boyle, Oracle Vet, Joins Microsoft as Enterprise Partnership VP

    Stephen Boyle, former vice president of Oracle‘s strategic partnerships with independent software vendors and original equipment manufacturers, has been appointed VP for enterprise partners at Microsoft, CRN reported Monday. Kevin McLaughlin writes Boyle first joined Oracle in 1997 as a sales manager for the company’s alliances with U.K. ISVs and became VP for software and hardware vendor […] More

  • Colin Lacey of Unisys: CIOs Eye Cloud Platforms to Store Data
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    Colin Lacey of Unisys: CIOs Eye Cloud Platforms to Store Data

    Chief information officers and senior information technology executives continue to transition organizational data to cloud environments amid a growing security threat landscape, says Colin Lacey, vice president of data center and cloud transformation solutions and services at Unisys. “Security concerns are not stopping CIOs from making use of the cloud to reduce costs and increase their […] More

  • TCS Has Developed Flash-Based Storage for Military, Space Data; Mike Bristol Comments
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    TCS Has Developed Flash-Based Storage for Military, Space Data; Mike Bristol Comments

    TeleCommunication Systems has introduced an 8-gigabit flash memory device for data storage in military, aerospace and medical platforms that operate in harsh environments. The hardware is built with single-level NAND flash architecture as well as radiation shielding technology, TCS said Tuesday. Mike Bristol, president of TCS’ government solutions group, said the company developed the product […] More

  • Dean Allemang: Health IT Industry Needs to Change Tech Expectations
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    Dean Allemang: Health IT Industry Needs to Change Tech Expectations

    Learning how to manage different sets of healthcare data to get insights may be more realistic than trying to get everyone to agree on one interoperable format, Dean Allemang writes in a March 24 piece on the Yarc Data blog. Allemang believes survival tools are more appropriate given the current technical, political and business challenges that could impact medical […] More

  • General Dynamics Unit to Supply Marine Corps with Armored Vehicle Upgrade Kits
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    General Dynamics Unit to Supply Marine Corps with Armored Vehicle Upgrade Kits

    A General Dynamics division has been awarded a $74.7 million contract to provide egress survivability kits for mine resistant and ambush protected vehicles used by the U.S. Marine Corps. General Dynamics Land Systems – Force Protection will manufacture 916 kits for the USMC to upgrade front and rear doors, exhaust system and rear steps on […] More

  • Moffitt Cancer Center Subsidiary Joins Deloitte Analytics Consortium; Nitin Mittal Comments
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    Moffitt Cancer Center Subsidiary Joins Deloitte Analytics Consortium; Nitin Mittal Comments

    Moffitt Cancer Center subsidiary M2Gen has joined Deloitte’s analytics consortium to help provide medicine studies and services to life science organizations and cancer centers. M2Gen intends to contribute to the ConvergeHEALTH consortium’s works of identifying biomarkers, matching gene-based clinical trial and creating real-world evidence, Deloitte said Tuesday. Nitin Mittal, principal at Deloitte and executive vice […] More

  • ThreeWire Systems Releases White Paper on IT Asset Mgmt Offering
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    ThreeWire Systems Releases White Paper on IT Asset Mgmt Offering

    ThreeWire Systems has published a white paper detailing the different options and insights provided by its information technology asset management offering. The ITAM offering brings together procurement, finance and IT so that a business can better purchase, distribute and deploy its hardware and software assets. The tool builds a complete inventory of all hardware and […] More

  • University of Virginia Adopts Oracle Profitability, Cost Mgmt Tool
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    University of Virginia Adopts Oracle Profitability, Cost Mgmt Tool

    Oracle has deployed an enterprise performance management tool at the University of Virginia as the academic institution looks to migrate its financial functions into a new technology platform. The public research university selected Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management, which has tools designed to provide transparency and insights into budget, acquisition, cost and profitability data, […] More

  • Kathy Lueders: NASA Commercial Partners Adhere to Spacecraft Development Schedule
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    Kathy Lueders: NASA Commercial Partners Adhere to Spacecraft Development Schedule

    NASA‘s commercial partners have completed the design reviews of their respective spacecraft and rockets intended for the agency’s program to transport mission crews to low-Earth orbit. Blue Origin, Boeing, Sierra Nevada and Space Exploration Technology continue to develop space transportation systems and prepare for tests in 2014 under the second round of their commercial crew […] More

  • BAE Debuts F-35 Metal Parts Machinery at Australian Plant
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    BAE Debuts F-35 Metal Parts Machinery at Australian Plant

    A BAE Systems facility in Adelaide, Australia has started operating new machining equipment to produce titanium components for the F-35 fighter aircraft. BAE makes the metallic parts of F-35 vertical tails by using twin-spindle long spars and longeron machinery, the company said Tuesday. The company also uses the technology at its F-35 components machining plant […] More