Deloitte executives attended a day-long summit hosted by President Barack Obama at the White House Thursday to discuss ways of helping low-income and disadvantaged students attend college. Barry Salzberg, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. CEO, and Owen Ryan, Deloitte & Touche LLP CEO of the AERS advisory practice, were slated to attend the event, the firm announced […] More

CH2M Hill and Fairhurst, a Scottish engineering consultancy firm, hosted an business enterprise event Jan. 16 in Glasgow, Scotland to focus on theoretical engineering. The event was designed to have students of St. Roch’s Secondary School develop a transport scheme to access an imaginary island, CH2M Hill announced Wednesday. During the “Dragon’s Den” style competition, […] More

BAE Systems is one of 15 companies that hold a prime position on a potential seven year, $22 billion contract covering information technology services for the Department of Homeland Security. The company is competing to provide systems, software and related IT support to DHS under the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions II vehicle, BAE announced […] More

ITT Corp. will sponsor an event in China aimed at building up engineering talent in the country’s manufacturing and engineering industry. The company is partnering with the Science and Technology Daily and TusPark Co. Ltd. for the engineering talent development program and innovation competition, ITT said Thursday. Jing Yang, league secretary of Science and Technology Daily, said […] More

Benson Schliesser has been appointed a distinguished engineer within the chief technology officer’s office at Brocade Communications, The VAR Guy reported Thursday. Chris Talbot writes that Schliesser joins the company from Juniper Networks, where he served as a distinguished engineer and director of the CTO office’s platform systems division. Also Read: Phil Cummings: Network Firewalls Built […] More

The information technology business unit of General Dynamics has been chosen by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to receive the performance-based logistics award for 2013. General Dynamics Information Technology won the award for its work on the U.S. Marine Corps. combat operating center program, the company announced Thursday. The company and the Marine Corps Systems […] More

Elbit Systems has won a two-year $15 million contract for additional capbilities for the C-130H Hercules transport aircraft used by the Israeli Air Force. The award is a follow-on to a contract from the Israel Ministry of Defense awarded in 2012, Elbit Systems announced Wednesday. The upgrade intends to help the Israeli Air Force meet […] More

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE announced that it has partnered with Thales to offer companies a comprehensive insurance policy related to cyberattacks. The Allianz Cyber Data Protect will cover the cost incurred from responding to a cyberattack, rebuilding the damaged information systems and losses from the service interruption, Thales announced Wednesday.  Under the partnership, Thales […] More

Red Hat named Autonomic Resources as its partner of the year award in the small/medium system integrator category during the Red Hat North America Partner Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Autonomic won the award for its SI public sector capabilities, highlighting its platform-as-a-service ARCWRX, solution, the company announced Wednesday. The ARCWRX was based on Red Hat’s […] More

BAE Systems will rename its cybersecurity business unit Detica as the defense and aerospace company looks to expand its footing in markets beyond the public sector, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Robert Wall writes that Detica will become BAE Systems Applied Intelligence at the end of the month. BAE will offer network security management services to government […] More

Unisys Corp. has completed the beta testing of its new enterprise computing platform with Aspasiel s.r.l., a Terni, Italy-based information technology solutions and infrastructure services company. During the testing, Unisys was able to migrate Aspasiel’s SAP ERP applications to the lower-cost Forward! by Unisys platform from IBM Power 770 mainframe in just a few days, […] More

IBM said that in 2013, its inventors have received 6,809 patents, the 21st consecutive year that the company ranked first in the annual list of patent leaders in the country. Some of the company’s patents for 2013 include inventions for the Watson supercomputer, neuromorphic and synaptronic spiking neural network and an automated validation and execution […] More