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Capstone Turbine has received four orders from the Marcellus and Utica Shale regions for microturbines designed for oil and gas operations. Capstone’s oil and gas distributor E-Finity Distributed Generation obtained orders from two new and two existing clients amounting to 6.4 megawatts of power, Capstone said Thursday. Darren Jamison, president and CEO of Capstone, said […] More
ATK has been selected to provide tactical holsters to the U.S. Army under a potential five-year, $24 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. ADS, the distributor of ATK’s BLACKHAWK SERPA tactical holster, received the order for the units and the Army intends for the holster to comply with a Soldier Clothing and Individual Equipment requirement, ATK said Monday. […] More
Raytheon has awarded Octagon Systems a contract to supply rugged computers for installation onboard the U.S. Navy‘s amphibious warfare ships, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. John Keller writes Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business will integrate the Octagon computing platform with all San Antonio-class vessels, including the USS Somerset, for the Navy. Octagon computers use an […] More
Raytheon has been directed to restart production work on new defense radar systems for the U.S. Navy under a potential $1.6 billion contract. The company will continue to develop, integrate and test the Air and Missile Defense S-Band Radar and radar suite controller that is being built for the Arleigh Burke class destroyers, Raytheon said Monday. AMDR is built […] More
The Patrick Henry Community College is now certified as a Siemens partner school, giving its students access to the company’s standards in electrical, mechanical and computer engineering. PHCC received the Mechatronics Certification which allows its PHCC Science, Technology and Mathematics program instructors to teach the course, the school announced Friday. Course students must complete five […] More
Jim Haughwout has joined Savi Technology as the new chief architect, where he will direct the company’s software technology strategies and work to build up its machine learning and artificial intelligence portfolio. Haughwout most recently served as senior vice president of engineering and operations at CustomMade Ventures, the company announced Thursday. He is also a former vice […] More
John Schumacher serves as the vice president for business relations of GenCorp, the parent of Aerojet General Corp., where he handles the growth plans of the company’s government-related aerospace and defense business. Schumacher also supports Warren Boley, Aerojet president, and the subsidiary’s operations in Washington. He has previously served as Aerojet vice president of Washington […] More
Carlos Echalar, formerly a vice president at Computer Sciences Corp., has joined MICROS Systems as chief human resources officer and will also serve as a  senior vice president. Echalar will be responsible for the company’s global human resources strategy that encompasses compensation and benefits, recruitment, diversity, compliance and organization and leadership development, MICROS announced Thursday. […] More
Former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem has joined the board of directors at network security firm ForeScout Technologies. The 25-year technology leadership veteran also serves on the boards of FireEye, Netskope, Atlassian, DocuSign and Biba, ForeScout said Monday. “We are honored to have Enrique join our board as we continue to expand capabilities to support our burgeoning global business,†said […] More
NASA powered up the Space Launch System for the first time Thursday to demonstrate the rocket’s flight avionics and software, both of which were developed by Boeing. The SLS reached first light status after the electronic flight guidance and manager was integrated into the launch vehicle at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, NASA said […] More
Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector, has said agencies will control costs, enhance quality and boost the speed of cloud services in 2014, FCW reported Thursday. Carlson writes that the government and private sector have already shifted focus to core business operations from running data centers. Agencies are now able […] More
A new Cisco study estimates that public sector organizations could generate $4.6 trillion in value from Internet-connected objects over the next 10 years. State agencies could generate $682 billion in value by applying the Internet of Everything to public services and cities worldwide could also derive $1.9 trillion through the IoE over the next decade, Cisco said Wednesday. “With […] More
