Cisco‘s STEMconnector organization has launched a program for promoting interest in science, technology, engineering and math careers for women ahead of National Mentoring Month, U.S. News reported Thursday.  Katherine Beard writes that the Million Women Mentors program will match women and girls interested in pursuing STEM degrees and career with potential mentors in the industry. […] 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

Tony Moraco, chief executive of SAIC, is moving to establish a more direct tie between him and members of his management team in 2014. Chief Information Officer Bob Fecteau and Chief Communications Officer Lucy Fitch will both report directly to Moraco beginning sometime after Feb. 1, the contractor said, as will Jennifer Smith, senior vice […] 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

Northrop Grumman has won a $7.3 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide life-cycle support for a mobile command, control and communications facility. The company will provide support for the AN/TYQ-23(V)4 tactical air Operations module and its related subsystems, Northrop Grumman announced Thursday. Under the contract, Northrop Grumman will enhance the system’s multi-radar tracker and data communications […] More

Frost & Sullivan has released a new study indicating a rise in demand for video analytics services to process and transmit full motion video files to U.S. troops for real-time ground intelligence. The research estimates the defense budget for the U.S. intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance video analytics market will decline from $1.2 billion in 2012 […] More

Engility Holdings has won a $29.6 million engineering and technology support contract under the U.S. Navy‘s Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment program. The award from the Naval Air Warfare Aircraft Division in Lakehurst, N.J. contains $9.8 million in base funds and two option years that would increase the contract to its full potential value, Engility announced […] More

David Buemi serves as vice president of federal energy solutions at Gehrlicher Solar America Corp. where he leads the firm’s marketing and government markets group. Buemi has held executive management positions over 28 years in the clean energy, information technology and consumer products industries and has worked in the photovoltaics industry since 1999. At Gehrlicher, […] 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

With the 100th anniversary of its research organization, Philips has renewed its commitment “to improving the lives of 3 billion people a year by 2025.”  Since it was established in 1914 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Philips Research has established operations in six international locations, accumulated 1,500 employees belonging to 50 nationalities and granted 165,000 patents, […] More

A 15-week big data course sponsored by Software AG for 25 students at the University of California- Berkeley has completed, with two teams having their projects selected to further develop their prototypes. The teams are raising funds to continue work on their prototypes they developed during the IEOR190C Industry Challenge Big Data course, Software AG announced […] More

Stefan Ries, who held human resources leadership roles at SAP AG between 2002 and 2010, will rejoin the German software conglomerate on April 1 as global head of human resources. The former Egon Zehnder principal consultant will be in charge of all HR activities at SAP and lead the company’s HR organization, SAP announced Thursday. Ries will report […] More