IBM will provide its cloud computing and data analytics technology to help researchers in Canada build decision-support tools for managing coastlines in British Columbia. The Smart Oceans BC project seeks to develop a system for public safety agencies to predict and monitor offshore pollution, oil spills and natural disasters, IBM said Monday. IBM will work […] More

NetApp will work with Wichita State University to help the school run a future innovation center with the goal of creating more jobs in Wichita and Kansas, the Wichita Eagle reported Tuesday.  Roy Wenzl writes that construction work on the innovation center will start construction in 2015 and WSU has hired 12 people to work […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding division has turned over the assault ship America to the U.S. Navy after the completion of sea trials in February. The commissioning crew will then begin shipboard training before the ship’s sail-away and America’s commissioning is scheduled for later this year in San Francisco, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. America is built […] More

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command recently conducted ground and air demonstrations for the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. The demonstrations were held at Beale Air Force Base, Calif. in January to show split-link capability for mission data transmission separate from the command-and-control link, Northrop said Thursday. “We’re ecstatic with Global Hawk’s ability to provide […] More

Robert Callahan joined the board of directors at satellite services provider Intelsat on April 1 as an independent member and will serve on the firm’s audit committee. Callahan is the chairman of media, technology and internet advisory firm Longueview and brings experience at the convergence and evolution of media and internet delivered services to the role, […] More

General Dynamics C4 Systems has opened an online portal for the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate to exchange data and access technology resources. The Knowledge Management System environment within the EDGE network is built for members to develop and deploy existing and new technologies to end users, General Dynamics said Thursday. Chris Marzilli, […] More

Eight collegiate cyber defense teams will participate in the 2014 National CyberWatch Center Mid-Atlantic Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition next week at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. JHUAPL said Wednesday that this year’s simulated scenario will have professional security experts pose as cyber terrorists and conduct attacks intended to disturb relief efforts of a disaster aid distribution […] More

Ray Oleson, co-founder of Salient Federal Solutions and the company’s board chairman since 2009, died on March 3.  “Oleson was a prized friend and mentor. Our hearts go out to Ray’s family and colleagues in this time of sadness. He will be dearly missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.” said Bill Parker, Salient chief […] More

A NASA spacecraft carrying a Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-built weather radiometer has been placed in orbit to start measuring rainfall and snowfall levels across the world. The Global Precipitation Imager observatory satellite is spinning at 32 revolutions per minute and works to map global precipitation every three hours, Ball Aerospace said Tuesday. “GMI is […] More

Leidos will work with LSB Industries under three contracts worth $82.7 million combined to manage construction of nitric acid and nitric acid concentrator plants, as well as to operate outside battery limits utilities. Engineering, procurement and construction support work will occur at the El Dorado Chemical Company facility in Arkansas until mid-2015, Leidos said Wednesday. James […] More

URS Corp. has won two separate environmental remediation contracts to help clean U.S. Army Corps of Engineers facilities in Utah and Kansas. For the Kansas-based McConnell Air Force Base, URS will use in-situ remediation technologies to treat chlorinated and petroleum-related contaminants, the company announced Feb. 20. URS will also provide the Utah Test and Training Range and […] More

Salient Federal Solutions will host the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission‘s data center operations in a cloud computing environment under a potential five-year, $4 million contract. The company will use a managed services environment to host the commission’s telecommunications and e-government applications, as well as help migrate and integrate the EEOC’s systems into a cloud platform, Salient […] More