China-based Chongqing General Aviation has purchased four Bell Helicopter-built aircraft to for parapublic missions such as search and rescue, firefighting and other disaster management efforts. Chris Jaran, managing director for Bell Helicopter in China, said Friday the two Bell 412EPI and two Bell 407GX aircraft are intended to support the Chongqing fire protection bureau. “We needed aircraft with capabilities above […] More

Dell and Kallo have forged an alliance to design and develop an information technology infrastructure at Kallo’s global support center for healthcare clients. Kallos delivers customized healthcare delivery platforms designed to support mobile care, clinical training, pharmacy informatics, diagnostics and disaster management programs in developing nations, Dell said Tuesday. Dell will help Kallo create a […] More

Ret. U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Mark Zamzow has joined The SPECTRUM Group where he will support clients interested in airlift, aerial refuelling, training and mobility operations. Prior to his new role at the Alexandria, Va.-based consulting firm, Zamzow spent 34 years in the Air Force and accumulated 3,400 flying hours as a pilot, SPECTRUM announced Monday. […] More

Iridium Communications has introduced a data broadcasting service intended to help government organizations and business entities transmit information from any device anywhere in the world. The Burst offering is designed to help mobile device users access machine-to-machine content and disseminate public warnings while inside a building, an aircraft or a ground vehicle, the company said Monday. […] More

MarkLogic and Transputec Computers PLC have agreed to offer MarkLogic’s NoSQL database platform to U.K.-based enterprise customers under a joint sales channel agreement. The NoSQL technology works to help businesses build applications and manage big data from both structured and unstructured sources, according to a MarkLogic statement. “Working with Transputec, we plan to help organisations in […] More

John Chiaramonte has joined Mission Critical Partners as a senior program manager, where he will work to help MCP expand its Next Generation 9-1-1 business. Chiaramonte joins MCP from a lead associate post with Booz Allen Hamilton, a management consulting firm. At Booz Allen, he managed a portfolio of projects supporting the U.S. Department of Transportation‘s National 911 Program and Next Generation 9-1-1 Initiative, […] More

Lynne Chamberlain serves as vice president of business development for Red Hat‘s public sector. The more than 20-year industry veteran has been at Red Hat since 2004 and has previously held leadership roles at Unisys, HP and NetApp. In her Q&A with ExecutiveBiz, Chamberlain discussed her work with systems integrators, some of the newest cloud offerings […] More

Dr. Melvin Greer serves as senior fellow and chief strategist for service-oriented architecture and cloud computing at Lockheed Martin, where he brings more than 25 years of experience leading systems and software engineering efforts to the contractor’s advanced technology office. Greer is a principal investigator in advanced research studies, and has dedicated his efforts towards […] More

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

McAfee has given its fiscal year 2013 Federal Partner of the Year Award to ThunderCat Technology after comparing revenue of all McAfee partners. ThunderCat works to develop its security practices and business model based on McAfee technologies, ThunderCat announced Jan. 1. “The work McAfee is doing with their Stonesoft product line around stopping advanced evasion techniques is […] More

A new Cisco study estimates that public sector organizations could generate $4.6 trillion in value from Internet-connected objects over the next 10 years. State agencies could generate $682 billion in value by applying the Internet of Everything to public services and cities worldwide could also derive $1.9 trillion through the IoE over the next decade, Cisco said Wednesday. “With […] More

Raytheon has selected 32 elementary school teachers for grants of up to $2,500 each to implement the company’s Engineering is Elementary Teacher Scholarship Program in their respective classrooms. Under a $2 million project between Raytheon and Boston’s Museum of Science, the winning teachers will implement curriculum intended to build up knowledge of engineering and technology […] More