General Dynamics Subsidiary Hands Navy 1st MLP Class Ship; Fred Harris Comments
A General Dynamics subsidiary has transported the first mobile landing platform class ship to the U.S. Navy for the branch’s amphibious operations. NASSCO designed and built the USNS Montford Point,…
Cubic Wins $21M for Foreign Military Training Simulator; Terry Kohl Comments
Cubic Corp. has been awarded a $21 million U.S. Army contract to provide a foreign military with the company’s virtual arms training system. Under the contract, Cubic will provide the engagement…
Navy Set to Release Shipboard Computer Equipment RFP
The U.S. Navy plans to issue a request for proposals for a new shipboard network computing equipment procurement on or around Friday, Nextgov reported Monday. Bob Brewin writes the Space and…
IBM, Siemens Among Contractors Helping Cities Use Analytics; Terry Heath Comments
IBM and Siemens are two companies that are partnering with cities across the U.S. to pilot analytics technology for use in monitoring events such as traffic and energy usage, the…
Parsons JV Wins Dulles Metro Extension Design Project; Todd Wager Comments
A joint venture that includes Parsons Corp. has been selected to carry out a design-build package for a $1.2 billion project to extend the Metrorail system from Fairfax County through…
Boeing Subsidiary, Mitsubishi Partner for Japan Post-Disaster UAS Program
A business unit of Boeing subsidiary Insitu Inc. has shipped an unmanned aircraft system to Japan for first responders to assess damages and acquire real-time information about disasters such as…
Accenture to Help Tokyo Recruit Companies for HQ, R&D Centers; Hiroshi Goto Comments
Accenture has been selected to help Tokyo recruit at least 10 foreign companies to locate their regional headquarters or centers for research and development in the capital by March 2014….
IBM to Help Water Utility Use Data Analytics for Supply Chain; Jon Bentley Comments
IBM has joined an alliance to help a private water utility company use big data analytics technology as it seeks to update the aging water and sewer networks in London…
Microsoft to Host State’s Email, Calendars in Office 365 Cloud; Michael Donlan Comments
Texas will migrate more than 100,000 state employees to email, web conferencing and calendar sharing in the Microsoft Office 365 cloud computing environment as the state aims to modernize its…
Microsoft to Expand Cloud Computing Operations in Australia; Toby Bowers Comments
Microsoft Corp. hopes to expand services for its Windows Azure cloud offering by opening data centers in the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria, according to an Economic Times… Read more »