IBM plans to invest more than $1 billion in its newly-established Watson Group business for building and marketing cloud-based cognitive technologies in an effort to help answer customer queries from large volumes of data. Michael Rhodin, formerly IBM’s senior vice president for software services group, will lead the Watson Group and that business will focus on research […] More

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $3.9 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force build technology for monitoring orbital objects and preventing satellite collisions. The company will design a non-traditional data pre-processor system to protect U.S. space assets under the Integrated Space Command and Control program, the company said Thursday. “Cars we drive on […] More

SRI International has been awarded a a $4.5 million contract to establish a library intended to contain thousands of metabolites for use by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. NIH intends for the Metabolite Standards Synthesis Center to help prepare molecules for metabolomics researchers and be accessible to the scientific community, SRI announced Monday. Metabolomics research involves […] More

Audodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) has purchased Circuits.io for an undisclosed amount as part of moves to expand product offerings in electronic circuit design and simulation. Circuits.io’s technology and development team offers web-based applications and collaboration tools for a community of circuit designers, innovators and entrepreneurs, Autodesk said Monday. “The rise in affordable, programmable microprocessors like the […] More

Richard Genovese, Ciber executive vice president and chief operating officer, will leave the company to pursue other opportunities after two years in the COO role. The company will release its fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 earnings results and host a conference call on Feb. 11, Ciber announced Tuesday. “[Genovese] has played an instrumental role in our […] More

Turner Construction Co. is continuing its educational program for the youth of Baltimore, Md., including ongoing classes concerning the construction industry. As a part of the Youthforce 2020 program, the company’s community affairs director, Dexter Hendricks, meets with  City Springs Elementary and Middle School students once a month, according to a Baltimore Curriculum Project blog post […] More

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have reached the halfway point of testing work on the company’s Triton unmanned aerial system nearly eight months after the drone completed its first flight. Testers have flown Triton for up to 9.4 hours at a time on one mission and have sent the UAS into altitudes of up […] More

A Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aerial vehicle was used by the U.S. Air Force to collect geographic imagery and data to help speed relief efforts in the Philippines after Super Typhoon Haiyan. The Global Hawk drone flew in November from the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam and relayed images of Philippines’ typhoon-hit areas to disaster […] More

CH2M Hill has won a $30 million contract to oversee an expansion project at the Port of Anchorage, Alaska which has been stalled since 2009 due to design issues, Public Media reported Thursday. Daysha Eaton writes the five-year contract includes two one-year options valued at $12 million. Stacey Jones, a vice president at CH2M Hill, […] More

NASA TV will show a live broadcast of an Orbital Sciences-built spacecraft’s launch on Tuesday as the vehicle starts a resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Cygnus cargo shuttle is scheduled to liftoff at 1:55 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday from the NASA flight range on Wallops Island, Va.  Tuesday and enter space onboard an Antares […] More

Carahsoft has been awarded a $544,388 contract to help the U.S. Justice Department create a LinkedIn profile to find new talent with knowledge of federal criminal laws, the Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday. Elizabeth Harrington writes DOJ’s Criminal Division awarded Carahsoft the contract on Dec. 24 to administer recruitment efforts for that division through the social […] More

The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Education plans to have 25 testing centers for Microsoft‘s online information technology program before the end of the academic year, Khaleej Times reported Thursday. Marwan Al Sawaleh, undersecretary for MoE, told the publication the ministry plans to add 11 more Microsoft IT Academy centers in order to help students pursue […] More