Leidos has developed a slew of new technologies that the company designed to assist military special forces in fulfilling their operational and mission requirements. The company will unveil the products at the National Defense Industry Association-hosted 2014 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference May 20 through May 22, the Reston, Virginia-based science and technology contractor said Thursday. […] More

Microsoft Corp. is planning to launch a training facility at the former St. Elizabeths hospital in Southeast D.C., The Washington Post reported Sunday. Jonathan O’Connell writes the software company is set to present plans for the proposed innovation center to real estate developers and academic partners on Tuesday at the St. Elizabeth campus. Donna Woodall, […] More

Motorola Solutions has begun talks to sell its enterprise business to Zebra Technologies for $3.45 billion in a bid to beef up asset tracking tools for their clients, Health IT Outcomes reported earlier this month. John Oncea writes the two companies expect to finalize the all-cash transaction by yearend. The combined organizations intend to integrate […] More

Under ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte‘s rapid learning network, Forest Laboratories will collaborate with Intermountain Healthcare to research outcomes by using an analytics platform designed to generate healthcare services insights. Deloitte said Monday the collaborative project initially focused on respiratory diseases and will deploy OutcomesMiner on electronic medical records to establish healthcare outcomes data and develop new products and treatments based on them. “At ConvergeHEALTH […] More

HP Enterprise Services will help configure and implement a new Medicaid management system for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing under a five-year, $116.9 million contract. As Colorado’s Medicaid fiscal agent, the company will also manage maintenance and upgrade work for the Medicaid Management Information System that is based on HP’s interChange Healthcare platform, HP said Tuesday. “The […] More

Battelle has signed an agreement with the U.S. Green Building Council to find the “real value” of green building design and construction. The USGBC Central Ohio Chapter has selected Battelle to execute the Green Schools Research Program’s educational component, the company announced Wednesday. Battelle will use statistical modeling techniques to define whether or not there is a […] More

A Clayton, N.C.-based plasma fractionation facility designed and built by Fluor Corp. has won the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering’s 2014 facility of the year award for project execution. The award from recognizes the modular construction techniques used by Fluor to build the 150,000-square foot facility, the company announced Thursday. “Fluor provides project management and […] More

ATK has demonstrated a booster avionics system the company built to centralize twin solid rockets for NASA’s Space Launch System. The technology has been integrated into hardware and software systems and was subjected to ground test systems and stress evaluations at ATK’s Clearfield, Utah-based lab, ATK said Thursday. “Stressing the system beyond what it will see […] More

SAP has launched three free online courses that will provide business professionals information on the company’s SAP Business Suite and SAP HAN productsA, among others. The SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA course will begin April 9 and teach its participants on how to use SAP products, the company announced Thursday. Another course taught by […] More

Moffitt Cancer Center subsidiary M2Gen has joined Deloitte’s analytics consortium to help provide medicine studies and services to life science organizations and cancer centers. M2Gen intends to contribute to the ConvergeHEALTH consortium’s works of identifying biomarkers, matching gene-based clinical trial and creating real-world evidence, Deloitte said Tuesday. Nitin Mittal, principal at Deloitte and executive vice […] More

Autodesk has been awarded a contract to provide building information modeling services for Qatar Rail’s work to construct an integrated railway network in the Middle Eastern country. The company will advise Qatar Rail on implementing BIM technologies and practices and help to train Qatar Rail’s staff for the railway project over the next three years, Autodesk […] More

A study from Booz Allen Hamilton and the Government Business Council recommends government and industry align their expectations in order to meet the requirements of defense acquisition programs. The Booz Allen-backed study polled 340 federal and defense leaders to assess their views on military procurement and potential reform in the process, Booz Allen said Wednesday. Eighty-five […] More