Boeing has received a $24 million order from the U.S. Air Force for handheld radios that are intended for search-and-rescue operations. The Combat Survivor Evader Locator radio system is built to help military personnel communicate with downed pilots and isolated warfighters, Boeing said Monday. Under the contract, Boeing will deliver 2,550 CSEL radios to the […] More

EMC Corp. has updated a storage management offering that is intended to help customers gain insights into data stored in their systems, InfoStor reported Friday. Pedro Hernandez writes the new version of the ViPR platform is built to work with the Hadoop Distributed File System and comply with corporate rules on data access, retention and […] More

World Wide Technology Inc. holds a spot on Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for the third consecutive year. WWT was selected for the 34th spot on the magazine’s list for 2014, the company said Thursday. Fortune’s criteria for the list includes an annual workplace survey and applications submitted by the companies.   More

Kemp Ross and Mike Sebastian have been selected to join a committee at Aon plc tasked with executing the company’s investment strategy. The Andy Cox-chaired Aon Global Practice Committee will guide and manage the direction of the company’s global investment operations, the company announced Thursday. Ross has been named the head of investment solutions and […] More

HP Enterprise Services has teamed with UNIT4 Business Software to host a cloud computing platform for U.K. education institutions to use software-as-a-service tools, ITProPortal.com reported Thursday. Jamie Hinks writes that HP will also deploy Virtual Private Cloud as an infrastructure-as-a-service offering. “At a time of great change for the education sector, clients are examining closely the relationships […] More

A Lockheed Martin partner has been applying robotics in manufacturing work on components for the F-35 fighter jet, Popular Science reported Thursday. Kelsey Atherton writes Magellan Aerospace, a Toronto-based supplier for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, uses a robotic arm to build tails for the aircraft. The mechanical arm features a milling tool that works […] More

Siemens Convergence Creators, a Siemens division based in Austria, has opened a U.S. branch in what division CEO Daniel Felicio believes is a key move in the company’s international expansion strategy. The office will be located in Los Angeles and the business will attend the Satellite 2014 in March to demonstrate its offerings, the company […] More

CH2M HILL has moved to realign its business to focus on five markets and six regions as part of a strategy to work with customers on fulfilling infrastructure requirements. The company will transition its business to energy, environment and nuclear; facilities and urban environments; transportation; and water market services, CH2M HILL said Thursday. Mike McKelvy […] More

District energy system providers should employ a framework for quantifying the value they could give potential customers looking to use a platform, says Tim Griffin, principal and branch manager at engineering consulting firm RMF Engineering. With building owners and property investors, the question has always been how much LEED points they would get if they connected […] More

Verizon has been leveraging its enterprise cloud platform to bring connected solutions to customers, said Anne Plese of the infrastructure and cloud solutions team at Verizon Enterprise Solutions. According to Plese’s Terremark blog post, system developers use Enterprise Cloud Verizon as a base to build machine-to-machine tools specific to their applications, generating information that helps decision […] More

Informatica Corp. plans to expand its channel partner program through cloud-based and on-premise offerings, CRN reported Dec. 27. Rick Whiting writes the Redwood, Calif.-based company intends to leverage the recently launched Informatica Cloud and PowerCenter Express offerings in an effort to seek business opportunities with service providers. Sohaib Abbasi, Informatica CEO, told the publication that […] More

Data visualization is as significant a component of cybersecurity as resources, personnel or the data itself, Tim White, global head of government and intelligence at YarcData, wrote in a Jan. 22 op-ed in the New York Times. Click here to read White’s full piece “Finding a Needle in a Haystack” According to the executive, the recent escalation […] More