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Siemens has signed up to be the first founding industry partner of the Energy Management Association — a group of engineers, contractors, building owners, manufacturers, utilities and others that promote energy management and reduced consumption. The partnership will be official at the association’s meeting during the the Cx Energy 2014 Conference & Expo on April 22, […] More
AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM and Intel have launched a nonprofit group in an effort to accelerate industry-wide adoption of technology for managing big data and machine-to-machine communications. The Industrial Internet Consortium will work to develop best practices, interoperability standards and reference architectures to help enterprises adopt systems that can link machines, devices and people, […] More
Northrop Grumman has received a customer service-related award from a BAE Systems unit for work to supply a platform management system to the U.K.’s defense ministry. BAE Systems Maritime-Submarines chose Northrop to receive the supplier award for the ministry’s Astute nuclear-powered submarine program, Northrop announced Wednesday. Sperry Marine, a Northrop business unit based in New […] More
An AWS panel will pick seven winners for the practices and partners in innovation categories for the City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge between May and June, AWS said Tuesday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector at AWS, said the contest is intended to recognize municipalities and partners who could help develop […] More
Parsons‘ street lighting project in Abu Dhabi has won the Lighting Project of the Year award at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Center last week. The company was recognized for its design and construction supervision services of Ras Al Akhdar Bainoonah Street, Parsons announced Wednesday. Parsons is one of 25 companies that were shortlisted […] More
AÂ Parsons-managed project has won six awards from the American Advertising Federation-Houston for management of the METRORail Expansion Project in Harry County, Texas for Houston’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The METRORail Expansion Project was recognized in four separate 2014 ADDY award categories, the company announced Wednesday. Langrand and Company, a local small business, developed the projects that […] More
Verizon has joined an organization that promotes Linux through the use of open source software for the communications industry. The company will act as a licensee of the Open Invention Network and also becomes the organization’s first major communications service provider member, OIN announced Tuesday. OIN develops software and patents that are royalty-free to any […] More
The National Veteran-Owned Business Association’s Vetrepreneur magazine has selected DynCorp International as one of the top 25 companies in the U.S. that work with veteran-owned businesses. DynCorp has been included in the list for the eighth year in a row and will be recognized in the magazine’s April issue, DynCorp announced Tuesday. “More than 60% of […] More
Joslin Diabetes Center has moved to grow its clinical trial research work and collaborations with industry by joining the Oracle Health Sciences Network. Boston-based Joslin will upload authorized and de-identified clinical data in an Oracle cloud environment as a network member, Oracle announced Tuesday. Jonathan Sheldon, Oracle Health Sciences global vice president, said the network’s goal is […] More
Northrop Grumman has launched a new program for non-U.S. citizens studying in the country to gain professional experience in the cyber, program management and computer engineering fields. The externship program is a joint project with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the company announced Tuesday. Chosen students from accredited universities will participate in an eight-week […] More
Lockheed Martin has delivered the U.S. Air Force‘s 17th C-5M Super Galaxy strategic airlifter to the service’s Marietta, Ga.-based Dobbins Air Force Base. The Super Galaxy will next be moved to the Stewart Air National Base in New York to undergo internal paint restoration until finally reaching the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the company […] More
The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council honored the winners of its 14th annual Excellence.Gov awards on Monday to recognize several information technology programs launched within the past year for the government. There were 31 finalists from 17 public sector agencies that competed for seven titles and were evaluated by 40 judges during a three-stage process, […] More
