Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines have partnered with two non-profit organizations to deliver 7,300 pounds of medical and educational supplies to Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. The companies delivered the supplies through Boeing’s 777-300 Extended Range airplane that is currently leased to the airlines, Boeing announced Monday. The program with Seattle Alliance Outreach […] More

Accenture has partnered with universities worldwide for an initiative intended meet the increasing demand for science, technology, engineering and math professionals, John Campagnino, managing director for global talent acquisition, The company launched the Future Technology Leaders program to develop student interest in those fields toward professional careers, Accenture said Friday. “Teaming with universities around the […] More

As we recently covered, SAIC is continuing to hone in on its management structure as the company moves forward after the legacy SAIC separated into two companies – the ‘new’ SAIC (Science Applications International Corp.), and Leidos. As a new brand, Leidos leaders have needed to introduce and position the firm to the GovCon marketplace, […] More

The National Nuclear Security Administration has received the final wind turbines for a wind farm in Amarillo, Texas that is being built by Siemens Government Technologies, the German conglomerate’s U.S. federal business organization. Siemens has set the operational date for the Pantex Renewable Energy Project as July 31, 2014 — nearly a year after NNSA and […] More

Intel and General Electric‘s joint healthcare venture and Mississippi’s government have partnered to offer telemedicine services to people with diabetes in underserved communities. The Diabetes Telehealth Network includes Intel-GE Care Innovations, C Spire, GE Healthcare, the North Sunflower Medical Center and University of Mississippi Medical Center, the university said Thursday. Gov. Phil Bryant said this […] More

General Electric Co. has moved to grow its smart grid services customer base by adding new municipal and rural utilities clients for the subscription-based offering, Greentech Media reported Thursday. Jeff St. John writes at least six more customers have subscribed to GE’s Grid IQ solutions-as-a-service unit in addition to existing clients such as the municipal […] More

CGI Group has been awarded a potential six-year, $200 million contract to provide information technology services to a Sweden-based government agency responsible for managing public transportation there. The company will work to help Sweden’s Trafikverket agency create and run applications meant to handle enterprise workloads, CGI said Thursday. Bengt-Goran Kangas, CGI vice president for public sector […] More

Air France has selected a Hewlett Packard cloud management platform to monitor physical and virtual cloud computing resources across the airline’s enterprise. The French carrier uses HP’s Cloud Service Automation system with Operations Orchestration and Server Automation software programs to automate application deployments and server provisioning in a private cloud network, HP said Jan. 14. […] More

NTT Communications has moved to deploy Oracle’s engineered systems and in-memory products on its network monitoring system offering in an effort to grow NTT’s network traffic and data analysis technologies. Oracle’s Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Exadata Database Machine, Coherence and Event Processing systems have been integrated into NTT Communications’ network and predictive failure detection services, Oracle […] More

Citrix and big data analytics provider Zettics have partnered to develop traffic management and analytics services offerings for mobile network customers. Zettics’ analytics technology will be integrated into Citrix’s ByteMobile portfolio for operators to analyze data consumption on their networks and to respond to events based on that analysis, Citrix said Thursday. Chris Koopmans, vice […] More

Dell is working with the Students’ Health and Welfare Centres Organisation to launch the company’s first solar laboratory in South Africa’s Western Cape region on Jan. 30, the South Africa The Good News reported Thursday. The Dell Solar Lab will be at SHAWCO’s facility in Kensington and work to serve more than 300 students and 150 community members […] More

Digital Management Inc. has delivered an enterprise mobility infrastructure to the U.S. Agriculture Department for monitoring devices and applications across the 29-unit agency. DMI built the system under a potential five-year, $20 million contract, the company said Wednesday. USDA’s system is comprised of a mobile device management, an app store and a data encryption platform […] More