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    Ray Johnson: Energy Presents ‘Very Large Commercial Market’ for Lockheed

    Lockheed Martin is looking to expand its business to the energy sector and other civilian projects as U.S. defense spending continues to decline, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Doug Cameron writes the company seeks to build a nuclear reactor, remote-controlled fish farms and a water desalination membrane. Ray Johnson, chief technology officer at Lockheed, told the journal […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    Norse-FireEye Team Selected for DOE Live Threat Defense Program; Sam Glines Comments

    Norse Corp. has won a $1.9 million contract with the Energy Department to help detect live threats to national critical infrastructure owners and operators in the energy sector in collaboration with FireEye. Norse will provide threat intelligence services for DOE’s cybersecurity risk information sharing program meant to help the energy sector identify and mitigate threats, Norse said Thursday. “We are thrilled […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Booz Allen’s Steve Senterfit: Energy Production ‘To Get More Complex’ With Growing Demand, Competition

    Steve Senterfit, vice president of commercial energy sector at Booz Allen Hamilton, believes energy production would become “more complex” amid increasing demand, competition and risks. Senterfit said Wednesday companies should consolidate strategies “to capitalize on new techniques, better insights and more innovative ways of approaching their business, suppliers, and employees.” He called on energy firms to […] More

  • in Executive Spotlight

    Executive Profile: Wray Varley, CenturyLink Area VP for Advanced Programs in DHS, DOJ

    Wray Varley serves as area vice president of advanced programs for the departments of Homeland Security and Justice at CenturyLink’s federal government industry. In this role, he directs a sales team that focuses on CenturyLink’s national security-related contracts. Prior to this role, Varley had sales and business development responsibility for all civilian government agencies such as the departments of Energy […] More

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    Battelle’s Jason Black Outlines Best Practices for Grid Security

    Jason Black, research lead of Battelle’s energy systems business, has urged utilities to go beyond the minimum grid security requirements outlined by North American Electric Reliability Corp. in a piece for Intelligent Utility published Thursday. He says utilities must factor in all potential risks such as equipment failure, weather-related disaster and man-made threats when developing a complete physical security plan. Each utility […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    KPMG’s Tom Franks: Global M&A Appetite ‘Remains Strong’

    KPMG has released the firm’s latest mergers and acquisitions global trends report that indicates M&A deals rose 26 percent between January and June of 2014. Tom Franks, global head of corporate finance at KPMG, said Thursday that “appetite for M&A deals remains strong, capacity is going up and we are starting to see an increasing number of deals […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    Verizon’s Carlos Arcila: Cyber Strategy Needed for Energy Grids

    Carlos Arcila, external communications manager for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, has recommended several ways to safeguarding the country’s energy infrastructure from cyber attacks. He noted on the Verizon blog Tuesday that organizations that operate and monitor U.S. energy and utility systems need cybersecurity framework especially now that the grid has become modernized and connected. “As new technologies […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Seven Teams Receive $3.3M in Total Funding for Electric Grid Research Project

    Seven research teams have received $3.3 million in total funding to develop technologies for sustaining and operating the state of New York’s electric grid. The recipients submitted proposals demonstrating the performance and resiliency of the electric power delivery system in New York before they obtained the awards, the NYC Press Office said Wednesday. “These projects […] More

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    BP Executive Jeanne Johns Joins Parsons’ Board of Directors; Chuck Harrington Comments

    Jeanne Johns, head of safety and operational risk at BP‘s refining and marketing businesses, has been appointed to the board of directors at Parsons Corp. The 25-year BP veteran also has chaired a joint venture between BP and two China-based energy companies and holds a background in international business development, Parsons said Tuesday. “As we continue […] More

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    Jacobs Wraps Up Redeemable Biomass Electricity Credit Study

    Jacobs Engineering Group has completed a study on how redeemable biomass electricity credits for usage in Riau, Indonesia. The project is a collaboration with Universitas Muhammadiyah in Riau, Sumatra with financial backing provided by the Energy and Environment Partnership Indonesia (EEP) and additional efforts supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. “Jacobs is pleased […] More

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    Ken Reuter, Stuart MacVean Take New Leadership Roles for URS-Backed Programs

    URS Corp. has appointed two new leaders at UCOR in Oak Ridge and SRR at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, Oak Ridge Today reported Thursday. UCOR, a partnership between URS and CH2M Oak Ridge LLC, has named Ken Reuter president and project manager for the URS-led cleanup of the Energy Department‘s East Tennessee Technology Park, formerly K-25, in […] More

  • in News, Products & Service

    Molly Rector: DDN Serves as Energy Research Project Storage Provider

    DataDirect Networks is providing storage services to the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory for energy research projects that are intended to help the Energy Department minimize the country’s foreign oil dependence. Atipa Technologies led the technology upgrade at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and modernized to DDNTM SFA 12K block storage platform and EXAScaler file storage appliance, […] More