RTKL has won a series of contracts worth more than $25 million combined to provide architectural and strategic branding services for an urban development project in the city of Guiyang, China. The ARCADIS subsidiary will work with Chinese developer Zhongtian Group to design entertainment centers, commercial offices and residential buildings in the Guizhou Province’s commercial […] More

Mike Haysley, a two-decade legal veteran, has been appointed director of strategic services for the CounselLink business at LexisNexis Legal & Professional. He will be responsible for driving growth and client results for the CounselLink strategic consulting services, LexisNexis announced Tuesday. Haysley will work with executives and legal departments to work on strategic services process stages […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has won an award for a Novartis facility that it provided design, engineering, procurement and construction management services for. The  U.S. Flu Cell Culture Facility at the Novartis Campus in Holly Springs, N.C. won the 2013 Facility of the Year Award from the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering, INTERPHEX and Pharmaceutical Processing […] More

Daryl Woodard, CEO of Tulsa, Okla.-based business and managed services provider SageNet, will also serve as chief executive of the recently-acquired Spacenet, a Washington-headquartered network services contractor. The transaction completed in December 2013 and both companies aim to complete their full integration in mid- to late- 2014, Spacenet announced Monday. Glenn Katz, outgoing Spacenet CEO, […] More

Tim Zuber has been appointed U.S. partner-in-charge of knowledge and collaboration management at KPMG. In his new role, Zuber will lead efforts to adopt best practices throughout the firm and will serve on the U.S. strategic investments committee, KPMG said Tuesday. Steven Hill, U.S. vice chair of strategic investments, said Zuber brings experience in team building […] More

Craig Olson, formerly a group senior director at Rockwell Collins, has been named vice president and general manager of business and regional systems at the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based avionics manufacturer. He will report directly to Kent Statler, executive VP and chief operating officer of Rockwell Collins’ commercial systems business and succeeds Jeff Standerski, who is […] More

A U.K. fighter jet equipped with metal components made with BAE Systems‘ 3D printing technology has taken its maiden flight. The Tornado aircraft flew from the UK Ministry of Defence’s airfield at Warton, Lancashire late last month, BAE announced Monday. 3D printing has the potential to yield approximately $2 million in maintenance and service savings for […] More

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that U.S. spending on healthcare increased by 3.7 percent to $2.8 trillion in 2012, Reuters reported Monday. Caroline Humer writes that national health spending has been growing at a slower pace and CMS has linked the slowdown to recession-induced changes in medication prices and care payment policies. […] More

Integrity Applications Inc. has won a potential $42 million contract to perform research and development work on intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting systems for the U.S. Navy. The five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity prime contract covers services to the Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command Air Warfare Center in China Lake, Calif., IAI announced Monday. Kenneth Abeloe, IAI senior […] More

Tetra Tech is building a high school in rural Zambia that will focus on science, technology, engineering and math with the support of nonprofit organization Engineers Without Borders. Tetra Tech’s employees raised $11,210 in two days for the school, based in the town of Lumwana, where many youth only stay in school through ninth grade, the […] More

Microsoft has released a white paper that proposes privacy and security best practices for corporate employees who use their own mobile devices in the workplace. The company says organizations should develop policies to stop botnets and spyware from entering their enterprise information technology networks. A global survey by Gartner Research found 88 percent of executives said […] More

Rich White joined Capstone Corporation in May 2013 and serves as chief executive at the provider of information; training; and strategy, planning and operations solutions and services to the federal government. White joined Capstone from Harris Corp, where he spent more than 30 years and held executive leadership positions in areas including space, intelligence, information […] More