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    DigitalGlobe, The Nature Conservancy Launch Crowdsourcing Project to Preserve Hawaii’s Forests

    DigitalGlobe has launched an environmental conservation campaign in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy to locate invasive plants or weeds growing in Hawaii’s native forests using its Tomnod crowdsourcing platform. Beginning with high-resolution aerial photos of Kauai rainforests, users are expected to pinpoint weeds such as the Australian Tree Fern and African Tulip Tree to help the conservancy target its efforts to eliminate […] More

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    Deloitte Australia Partners With Analytics Group to Boost Consulting Services for CFOs; Lynne Pezzullo Comments

    Deloitte‘s Australian business has partnered with CFO-level consulting firm Analytics Group to bolster its accounting and finance consulting practice, as the chief financial officer’s role grows across government agencies amid ongoing fiscal challenges. Deloitte said Tuesday two partners and 19 staffers from Analytics Group will work with its team in Canberra to provide financial management, planning, budgeting and […] More

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    URS to Design Info-Sharing Engineering Environment for LNG Canada; Mark Costello Comments

    URS has been tapped to set up an integrated engineering environment for LNG Canada‘s proposed liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia as the project’s main information contractor. “LNG Canada has chosen us as a partner to ensure coordinated, consistent, complete and accurate data for the entire project life cycle,” Mark Costello, general manager of URS’ industrial […] More

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    Quantum Technology Sciences Closes $4.4M Series-A Round; Mark Tinker Comments

    Quantum Technology Sciences has closed its target $4.4 million series-A funding round, the company announced Tuesday. The provider of intrusion detection and movement monitoring products has a number of investors including Anthem Ventures, Cobalt International Energy, Infinity Oil & Gas and the McNair Group. Mark Tinker, Quantum CEO, said his company’s technology uses a single […] More

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    Harris Installs Ground Segment Components of NOAA’s Weather Satellite; Romy Olaisen Comments

    Harris Corp. has completed the installation and integration of 89 out of 155 ground segment components of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — R Series weather monitoring tool of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said Tuesday the tested network infrastructure hardware and software is located at NOAA’s satellite operations facilities in Suitland, Maryland; Wallops Island, Virginia; and […] More

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    Northrop, Navy Demonstrate MQ-8B Fire Scout’s Modernized Radar Tech; George Vardoulakis Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated a new maritime surveillance radar that the company modified from a manned aircraft system built by Telephonics Corp. The company and Navy flew the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter for the demonstration as part of the efforts to help Navy commanders increase their long-range imaging and search capabilities, Northrop said Tuesday. […] More

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    IBM, Canadian Water Consortium Build Data Integration Platform; Dan Fortin Comments

    IBM has partnered with the Southern Ontario Water Consortium to develop a data integration platform to manage Canada’s 80 sq km Grand River watershed, using sensor technology to collect data such as water turbidity and quality. IBM said Monday the platform uses at least 120 meteorological, surface, subsurface and groundwater sensors that integrate 600 data points an hour […] More

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    Thales to Supply Communication Services for EU Force in Central African Republic; Gerard Herby Comments

    Thales will supply and operate communications for the European Union Force based in the Central African Republic to help with field operations and other military missions. Systems and technologies to be used in the Central African Republic will include satellite communications and secure voice over Internet Protocol services capable of working simultaneously and quickly in field operations, Thales […] More

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    Boeing-Lockheed JV Seeks Rocket Engine Partners

    The United Launch Alliance has signed contracts with several U.S. companies to move towards creating a next-generation rocket engine, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin will choose one company to investigate next-generation liquid oxygen/ hydrocarbon first stage propulsion concepts to build the rocket engine as an alternative […] More

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    MCR Federal to Help Army Review Apache Plans, Testing Data; Neil Albert Comments

    MCR Federal will help the U.S. Army manage data and review testing work for the Apache Helicopter program through engineering and support services under a potential six-year, $14.1 million contract. The program management services contractor will work with the branch’s Aviation and Missile, Development and Engineering Center in Huntsville, Ala. on reviewing airworthiness documentation, qualification test plans […] More

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    Kevin Graney: General Dynamics NASSCO to Build 5th Vessel for American Petroleum Tankers

    A General Dynamics subsidiary has signed a contract with Kinder Morgan Energy Partners‘ American Petroleum Tankers to design and build an additional 610-foot, 50,000-ton cargo vessel with a 330,000 barrel capacity. General Dynamics NASSCO will construct the tanker at its shipyard in San Diego, California by the fourth quarter of 2015 for delivery in the second […] More

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    Boeing Taps Rockwell Collins Micro-GPS Tech for DoD Radio System; Mike Jones Comments

    Rockwell Collins will supply its Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module GPS receivers to Boeing for the Defense Department‘s Combat Survivor Evader Locator radio system for joint search-and-rescue missions. The SAASM micro-GPS technology, which enables GPS coordinates to be decoded, is expected to support the CSEL system in providing geoposition and navigation information, Rockwell Collins said Monday. Mike Jones, vice president […] More