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  • Warren East Joins Oxehealth Advisory Board
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    Warren East Joins Oxehealth Advisory Board

    Warren East, formerly CEO of semiconductor intellectual property supplier ARM Holdings, has joined the advisory board of Oxehealth, a spin-out from the University of Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering. East will work to help Oxehealth drive its non-contact vital signs technology into the market and pursue partnership opportunities, Oxehealth said Thursday. He will also collaborate […] More

  • SGI, Cognilytics Form Computing and Analytics Team; Jorge Titinger Comments
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    SGI, Cognilytics Form Computing and Analytics Team; Jorge Titinger Comments

    SGI and Cognilytics have partnered to integrate high-performance computing with predictive analytics products with the goal of applying the combined tool for big data. InfiniteData Cluster is a cluster computing platform and SGI UV is a shared-memory platform that is built to carry out micro-second data analysis, SGI said Thursday Jorge Titinger, CEO of SGI, said the […] More

  • Accenture Surveys Federal Cloud Deployment Strategies; Annette Rippert Comments
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    Accenture Surveys Federal Cloud Deployment Strategies; Annette Rippert Comments

    Accenture Federal Services and the Government Business Council have jointly surveyed federal executives to evaluate their views and experiences on their agencies’ cloud implementation. The “The Road Ahead: 3 Years After Cloud First” report indicates that agencies face staffing and procurement processes amid increasing deployment of cloud services, Accenture said Thursday. “While there are initial challenges […] More

  • General Atomics, GKN Extend Predator Fuel Tank Supply Deal
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    General Atomics, GKN Extend Predator Fuel Tank Supply Deal

    General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has awarded a $5 million subcontract to a GKN plc subsidiary for more fuel storage bladders on GA-ASI’s Predator unmanned aerial vehicles, iNVEZZ reported Wednesday. Branimir Kondov writes that GA-ASI ordered 100 additional petrol tanks for its drone from GKN Aerospace. GKN has provided GA-ASI with more than 75 sets of Predator […] More

  • Gov’t Workers Org DPS Health Extend Online Weight Mgmt Program; Kathy Ross Comments
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    Gov’t Workers Org DPS Health Extend Online Weight Mgmt Program; Kathy Ross Comments

    The Government Employees Health Association and DPS Health have moved to extend their online weight management program partnership through 2014. GEHA and DPS Health aim to have an additional 5,000 health plan members through the program’s continuation, DPS Health said Thursday. Kathy Ross, director of clinical quality for GEHA, said VLM is intended to help address members’ […] More

  • Paul Lemmo: Lockheed, AeroVironment Forge UAS Development Alliance
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    Paul Lemmo: Lockheed, AeroVironment Forge UAS Development Alliance

    Lockheed Martin and AeroVironment have signed a global partnership agreement to jointly explore technologies such as atmospheric satellite systems for drones. The companies aim to integrate Lockheed’s mission and ground aircraft platforms with AeroVironment’s unmanned aerial system Global Observer, AeroVironment said Thursday. “We look forward to partnering with AeroVironment to potentially develop integrated solutions for the […] More

  • Siemens Passenger Rail Locomotive Enters Amtrak Service
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    Siemens Passenger Rail Locomotive Enters Amtrak Service

    Amtrak will start running a Siemens-made electric locomotive on the operator’s inter-city passenger rail lines beginning on Friday. Siemens and Amtrak executives celebrated the locomotive’s debut at a ceremony held Thursday on the 30th Street Amtrak station in Philadelphia, Siemens said Thursday. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx attended the unveiling. […] More

  • Airbus Defence and Space Unveils New Satellite Comms Offering; Danny Côté Comments
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    Airbus Defence and Space Unveils New Satellite Comms Offering; Danny Côté Comments

    Airbus Group’s defense and space business unit has introduced a fresh satellite communications offering for mining customers.< The Terralink Companion Quick Deploy 1.2m VSAT system is designed for various communication applications such as email, Internet, file transfer and voice calling through wired and wireless networks, Airbus said Thursday. Danny Côté, business communications enterprises lead of […] More

  • Raytheon’s UAV Control System Software to be Updated
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    Raytheon’s UAV Control System Software to be Updated

    Raytheon‘s tactical control system was designed to operate drones in all branches of the U.S. military and the TCS is now receiving a software upgrade, according to a Military Aerospace article. John Keller writes that Raytheon Technical Services is poised to switch the software on the control system from Solaris to Linux software as well as upgrade the […] More

  • Raytheon to R&D Cyber Strategies for DARPA; Jack Harrington Comments
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    Raytheon to R&D Cyber Strategies for DARPA; Jack Harrington Comments

    Raytheon will research and develop new cyber operations strategies for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program under a $9.8 million contract. The company will identify approaches that are intended to help Defense Department to execute and assess cyber missions under DARPA’s Plan X program, Raytheon said Thursday. Jack Harrington, vice president of cybersecurity and special […] More

  • Sidra Berman Promoted to Savi Marketing VP Post; Bill Clark Comments
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    Sidra Berman Promoted to Savi Marketing VP Post; Bill Clark Comments

    Sidra Berman, most recently head of market management operations at Savi Technology, has been promoted to serve as the company’s vice president of marketing. She will report directly to President and CEO Bill Clark and have responsibility for implementing strategies to help the company expand into new markets and build brand awareness, Savi said Wednesday. […] More

  • IBM Initiatives Target Next-Gen IT Workforce in Africa
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    IBM Initiatives Target Next-Gen IT Workforce in Africa

    IBM has launched several information technology programs in Africa to build a workforce with next-generation IT knowledge and skills and contribute to the continent’s economic development and growth, IBM said Thursday.  “Leaders in business, education and government agree that enabling the existing and future workforce to perform at the cutting edge of technology trends such as […] More