Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including VP and director. Albert caught […] More

Accenture and DataStax have forged a big data alliance with the goal of helping customers gain insights into information and prevent fraud. DataStax’s big data platform that based on Apache Cassandra will be integrated into Accenture’s analytics and cloud technologies as the companies seek to develop data supply chains and online interactions for clients, Accenture […] More

Pratt & Whitney has officially opened a maintenance, repair and operations hub for PW4000 aircraft engines in Singapore as part of a $110 million capital investment. The facility is located at the Seletar industrial aerospace park which already houses Pratt & Whitney’s component solutions business and global services engineering team, the UTC Technologies Corp. subsidiary […] More

Harris Corp. has started to deliver hardware and software systems for installation in a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite network after the equipment passed a pre-shipment review. Those systems will be used to build the ground segment for NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R series program, Harris said Thursday. “We have worked closely with NOAA […] More

Boeing will deploy Dutch cybersecurity company SecurityMatters’ intrusion detection system as part of the defense contractor’s enterprise network sentinel platform designed to identify vulnerabilities in information systems architecture. SilentDefense ICS reviews network configuration and pinpoints malfunctions through network fingerprinting, SecurityMatters said Wednesday. SecurityMatters’ CEO Dr. Sandro Etalle said that “more than 20 man years of […] More

Charles Sowell serves as senior vice president in Salient Federal Solutions‘ system and software engineering solutions business unit, where he oversees work in the areas of security clearances, insider threat prevention and detection and big data analysis. He most recently served as deputy assistant director for special security for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence […] More

Oracle is working with Los Angeles County’s Department of Health Services to implement an enterprise analytics platform intended to help the agency monitor clinical resources and manage patient records. LA County DHS wants to use Oracle technology as the baseline for the department’s integrated warehouse containing medical, utilization and financial data, Oracle said Tuesday. According […] More

IBM and Skillsoft will collaborate to develop an enterprise learning for big data training, with the first phase intended help users identify what drives engagement and business outcomes. IBM Research will contribute its big data and customer experience analytics capabilities fore Skillsoft’s more than 50,000 learning assets, Skillsoft announced Tuesday. During the second phase, the […] 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