Battelle is set to study commercial off-the-shelf fluorine-free fire suppression foams to validate if they have met military specifications.

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The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments announced on Tuesday that Bill Bodie was appointed director of development for the institute. “Bill comes to us with an impressive background in the foundation world, government and industry,” said Dr. Thomas G. Mahnken, president and CEO of CSBA.

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Senseonics Holdings and service-disabled veteran-owned small business Geo-Med have teamed up to provide over 9M veterans and U.S. government employees access to an implantable device built to monitor glucose levels in patients with diabetes. Senseonics said Thursday its Eversense continuous glucose monitoring system uses a fluorescence-based sensor, a mobile application and a smart transmitter for data communication.

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David Brown, a 35-year nuclear operations veteran, has been appointed president of a joint venture between BWX Technologies‘ technical services group and Aptim‘s federal services unit. He will lead the BWSR business that currently supports decommissioning, demolition and operations at multiple Naval Nuclear Laboratory sites through a contract with Fluor, BWXT said Tuesday. Brown previously served as director of […] More

ExecutiveBiz talked with Roger Karner, president of U.S. market, about his company’s recent name change, suite of lighting products for federal customers and where he sees Signify driving the most value in 2018. “Privacy and security are essential elements of our product development process and fundamental to being a responsible innovator.” ExecutiveBiz: Philips Lighting recently […] More

Triad National Security has received a notice to proceed from the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration to begin transition efforts for the management and operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The company said Monday it will officially assume operation and management responsibilities at the national lab on Nov. 1 after the […] More

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received an initial contract to manufacture a prototype steam generator technology for NuScale Power at the CTC-operated Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing. NuScale said Wednesday CTC will produce helical coil steam generators that serve as a key component of the Fluor-backed venture’s small modular reactor nuclear design under certification review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “We […] More

Lockheed Martin will build a space instrument that will work to collect data on the planet’s vegetation health and carbon cycle as part of the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory mission. Lockheed said Tuesday it expects the GeoCARB instrument to launch aboard a commercial geostationary orbit satellite as a payload by 2022 to measure carbon dioxide, methane, […] More

ExecutiveBiz: You held several senior positions with Amazon and Fluor and are a retired US Army Major General. How has your background and previous roles prepared you for the challenges you face in your current position? Kevin Leonard: I served 33 years in the Army. The core values of the Army are identical to the […] More

A joint project of MerLion Pharmaceuticals and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has received a grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to study the effectiveness of an antibiotic called finafloxacin against biological threat agents. The Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company said Wednesday the project will explore the effectiveness of MerLion’s fluoroquinolone finafloxacin against infections caused by […] More

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted for review Nuclear Power‘s design certification application for a company-made commercial nuclear power generation technology. NuScale, which Fluor holds a majority stake in, filed an application in late 2016 seeking NRC approval for its small modular nuclear reactor. “The exceptional news that the NRC was able to accept our […] More

The Professional Services Council re-elected several executives and appointed new members to its 2017 executive committee and board of directors during its annual meeting held Thursday. John Goodman, chief operating officer of Accenture’s federal services business; and Deb Alderson, president and CEO of Sotera Defense Solutions; were respectively re-elected as PSC’s chair and vice chair, […] More