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  • Leidos Subsidiary to Manage NATO Fuel Monitoring System; Larry Hill Comments
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    Leidos Subsidiary to Manage NATO Fuel Monitoring System; Larry Hill Comments

    A subsidiary of Leidos will manage the NATO Fuel Monitoring System and its enterprise- and facility-level subsystems under an estimated $13 million, 10-month prime contract with the NATO Support Agency. Varec will oversee the implementation, testing and maintenance of NFMS to support petroleum oils, lubricants and fuel sales, inventory and governance activities at NATO military installations, Leidos said Monday. “The contract […] More

  • Deltek: FY 2014 to See 1K Contractors Leave SBA Business Development Program
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    Deltek: FY 2014 to See 1K Contractors Leave SBA Business Development Program

    A Deltek study says approximately 1,100 contractors have exited or are scheduled to leave the Small Business Administration‘s 8(a) business development program in fiscal year 2014, the Washington Post reported April 14. Kathleen Sievers, a Deltek research manager, writes that those companies hold almost $5 billion in combined set-aside task order contracts that will expire […] More

  • URS to Help Convert Milwaukee Power Plant From Coal to Natural Gas; Art Lembo Comments
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    URS to Help Convert Milwaukee Power Plant From Coal to Natural Gas; Art Lembo Comments

    URS Corp. will work with We Energies to convert Milwaukee-based Valley Power Plant into a natural gas production facility from a coal plant. URS said Monday that the team will replace the plant’s coal-burning equipment with natural-gas piping and burners, as well asw modify combustion controls and other auxiliary equipment and plant controls. Art Lembo, general manager for URS’ power […] More

  • Cambridge to Help Army Update IP Router Network
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    Cambridge to Help Army Update IP Router Network

    Cambridge International Systems will help the U.S. Army work to increase the branch’s Internet Protocol transport router network from 10 gigabits to 100 gigabits. The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded a potential three-year, $30 million task order to Cambridge for the work under the Global Information Grid Services and Management-Engineering, Transition and Implementation vehicle, Cambridge said Wednesday. This is […] More

  • Panama Civil Aviation Authority Launches Thales-Built Air Traffic Control System; Raphael Cervantes Comments
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    Panama Civil Aviation Authority Launches Thales-Built Air Traffic Control System; Raphael Cervantes Comments

    Panama’s civil aviation authority has unveiled a new Thales-developed radar air traffic control center intended to handle the entire country’s airspace. The TopSky-ATC traffic control center is built to accommodate 12 control working positions, Thales Group said Thursday. Raphael Cervantes, director of sales for Latin America of Thales’s air traffic management business, said the company has worked […] More

  • Siemens, Chinese Carmaker Form Automotive Drive Tech JV; Siegfried Russwurm Comments
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    Siemens, Chinese Carmaker Form Automotive Drive Tech JV; Siegfried Russwurm Comments

    Siemens AG and China-based Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. Ltd. have formed a joint venture to develop electric powertrain systems for the Chinese green drive-technologies market. The Beijing Siemens Automotive E-Drive System JV will be established to produce electric drivetrain parts such as power-electronics and electric motors, Siemens said Sunday. The company aims to help […] More

  • Marc Eisenberg: ORBCOMM Relocates Network Control Hub
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    Marc Eisenberg: ORBCOMM Relocates Network Control Hub

    ORBCOMM has moved its network control center to a new facility in Sterling, Va. from the hub’s former location in Dulles. Marc Eisenberg, CEO of ORBCOMM, said Wednesday the company intends to use the new innovation and network control center to help further its business expansion strategy. “This state-of-the-art facility allows us to bring together key […] More

  • OceanWorks International Hands Spare Ocean Nodes to Harris CapRock
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    OceanWorks International Hands Spare Ocean Nodes to Harris CapRock

    OceanWorks International has delivered additional ocean floor nodes to Harris CapRock Communications for running and maintaining CSnet International‘s offshore communications system. Scientists work to gather real-time data from seafloor sensors by using the offshore communications backbone infrastructure, OceanWorks International said Friday. The OceanWorks-built communications system consists of five seafloor nodes that form the seafloor observatory. […] More

  • Agilent Technologies to Expand Health Research with Thought Leader Award; John Fjeldsted Comments
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    Agilent Technologies to Expand Health Research with Thought Leader Award; John Fjeldsted Comments

    Agilent Technologies Inc. has awarded Princeton University professor Joshua Rabinowitz a thought leader award intended to expand the company’s support of quantitative analysis of cellular metabolism. The award will support Rabinowitz’ global cell metabolism and regulation research using Agilent’s 6550 MS-QTOF, a mass spectromertry tool, the company announced Thursday. The partnership’s goal is to ultimately […] More

  • Battelle to Explore Green Buildings for Schools; Ian MacGregor Comments
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    Battelle to Explore Green Buildings for Schools; Ian MacGregor Comments

    Battelle has signed an agreement with the U.S. Green Building Council to find the “real value” of green building design and construction. The USGBC Central Ohio Chapter has selected Battelle to execute the Green Schools Research Program’s educational component, the company announced Wednesday. Battelle will use statistical modeling techniques to define whether or not there is a […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Wins a Boeing Avonics Supplier of the Year; Rob Freedman Comments
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    Ball Aerospace Wins a Boeing Avonics Supplier of the Year; Rob Freedman Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected as a recipient of an avionics supplier of the year award from Boeing, which evaluated 14,000 suppliers in 16 categories from 50 countries. Boeing chose Ball Aerospace for the award based on performance and contributions to antenna programs for the F/A-18 jet and the Harpoon, Ball Aerospace announced Friday. […] More