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Cisco will invest up to $100 million over 10 years in a technology hub in Toronto as part of efforts to help develop new technologies and seek fresh market opportunities. The Internet of Everything Innovation Center will serve as a venue for start-up businesses, large companies, industry customers and government clients to perform research and development […] More
Bechtel will provide management and other preliminary services to prepare for the construction of the Louisiana International Gulf Transfer Terminal off the state’s Gulf Coast under an agreement with the LIGTT Project Company. It will support the facility design, procurement and integration with the terminal operator for Louisiana’s planned 250-acre, deep-water, cargo transfer port, Bechtel said Wednesday. According to Walker […] More
Lockheed Martin and the University of Maryland have signed a memorandum of understanding to build an integrated quantum computer in an effort to further develop drug discovery, communications and logistics technologies. The company and university will form a quantum engineering center in College Park to exhibit a quantum computing platform for users to operate, Lockheed said […] More
Boeing, South African Airways and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials will collaborate to encourage small farm owners to produce environmentally-sustainable crops for biofuel use. The alliance will offer training programs designed to help South African farmers become certified biofuel feedstock growers, Boeing said Wednesday. Boeing has launched a similar effort with RSB in Southeast Asia […] More
Dell has chosen 12 students under the age of 22 to work with its employees to test, review and investigate its future education technology and offerings. The 12 students will officially be known as Dell Youth Innovation Advisors who will work closely with Student Voice, a national nonprofit organization, during the course of the program, […] More
John D. Gagel, Lexmark International corporate manager of sustainability, has been appointed to the board of governors of the Manufacturing Leadership Community. The MLC is a global business network for senior industrial executives, the MLC said Monday. Gagel was elected to the board along with Eric Fidoten, Campell Soup vice president of supply chain strategy and operations excellence. […] More
Sonya Cork, Verizon Enterprise Solutions vice president of public sector markets, has been appointed to the TechAmerica public sector board of directors, TechAmerica said Wednesday. The public sector board focuses on issues that are of the most importance to federal and state government contractors, according to TechAmerica. “Sonya brings an extensive background in the world of government […] More
A Boeing aircraft designed for coastal search and rescue, anti-piracy and border security applications took its maiden test flight on Friday. Boeing partner Field Aviation launched the maritime surveillance aircraft from Pearson International Airport in Toronto under a demonstration project, Boeing said Wednesday. The multi-mission MSA was derived from the Bombardier Challenger 604 business jet […] More
NTT Communications Corp. has collaborated with its U.S.-based group company Verio to release in the U.S. a suite of public cloud services that were previously available in Japan. The Biz Hosting Cloud (n) cloud services offerings will be available through NTT Com’s U.S. datacenter starting Thursday, NTT Com said Wednesday. The cloud suite features services such […] More
Iridium Communications will provide its M2M Short Burst Data technology to industrial telematics company ZTR Control Systems for satellite connectivity and wide-scale data services coverage. Iridium said Wednesday it will work to automatically route data with the ZTR inReach telematics device starting in April. Bryan Hartin, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Iridium, said the company will launch […] More
CAE will help the city of Ottawa implement a new emergency management information system for agencies to collaborate, share and track information with one another during crises. As the deal’s prime contractor, CAE’s integrated enterprise solutions unit will integrate Intermedix‘s WebEOC incident management system and Amika Mobile Corp.’s AMS critical communication system to build a new product, CAE said Tuesday. […] More
A NASA spacecraft carrying a Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-built weather radiometer has been placed in orbit to start measuring rainfall and snowfall levels across the world. The Global Precipitation Imager observatory satellite is spinning at 32 revolutions per minute and works to map global precipitation every three hours, Ball Aerospace said Tuesday. “GMI is […] More
