Bill Downer serves as manager of federal business development at Seagate Technology where he is helping to build a federal subsidiary that will focus on storage offerings for U.S. government customers. Downer worked in BD for Xyratex before it was acquired by Seagate and was vice president of federal sales at DataDirect Networks beginning in 2012. He […] More

IBM is donating $100 million in big data and analytics software and establishing programs at 100 universities in China as part of the IBM U-100 project to foster a future workforce skilled in big data and analytics. The company said Tuesday that U-100 is an extension of the existing partnership between the company and China’s education ministry and aims to train 40,000 […] More

BAE Systems will contribute $1 million and other forms of support over the next five years to a research center in Adelaide, Australia that is partly funded by the country’s government and other contributions from the defense industry and academia. Personnel at the $88 million Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Center will research and develop tools to help […] More

The Navy has awarded RDRTec a $3 million contract to develop a radar technology that would allow drones to sense and avoid other aircraft in airspace, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes that RDRTech will build an autonomous collision avoidance system for the Navy’s fleet of MQ-8 Fire Scout and MQ-4C Triton […] More

Stephen Elliot, formerly of CA Technologies, will join International Data Corp. to assume the role of vice president of the IT infrastructure and cloud practice for the company’s CIO Agenda research team. Elliot will advise enterprise IT companies and the investment community on IT development operations, cloud management, automation, virtualization and working within software-defined data […] More

Under Cisco Investments, the Cisco Canada Innovation Program, will invest in Canadian companies to continue driving Cisco innovation in Canada. Canada’s finance minister, Joe Oliver, along with Cisco Canada announced Friday the Cisco Canada Innovation Program, a strategic program to drive Canadian industry, proposes to invest $150 million for further innovation in Canada. Cisco plans […] More

The Consumer Electronics Association has published a report indicating that a radio spectrum used to facilitate enterprise wireless communications contributes $62 billion to the nation’s economy a year. CEA forecasts that consumer electronics devices utilizing non-licensed radio frequency bands will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 30 percent between 2011 and 2016, the […] More

General Electric has promoted James Fowler as vice president of the firm’s capital business and appointed Jason Hanson and Thomas Westrick to VP roles at its healthcare unit. Fowler, a 14-year GE veteran, has held information technology leadership positions within the company’s power and water, corporate and aviation subsidiaries, GE said Friday. Westrick, who joined […] More

Professional Development and educational technologies company Teq announced yesterday that former chief sales officer Chris Hickey will step up to president, after leading the sales team for more than a year. As the new commander-in-chief and head of sales operations, Hickey will lead the way for the organization’s business strategy, setting his sights on marketing […] More

Cisco and the city of Copenhagen have entered a partnership agreement to research and develop the Internet of Everything as the Danish capital aims to reach its climate targets by 2025. Wim Elfrink, executive vice president for industry solutions and chief globalization officer at Cisco, said the city’s “ambitious green vision” offers a platform for […] More

Paul Sagan has been elected to the board of directors of VMware Inc., effective immediately, to fill the spot left by David Goulden. Sagan, a partner at General Catalyst Partners, also serves as a director at EMC Corp. and iRobot Corp., VMware announced. During his career, Sagan also served various positions at Akamai Technologies Inc., […] More

Bill McMullen, president and CEO of Reston, Va.-based services contractor WBB, joined the company in 1994 after a 27-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps that included service as a commanding officer and at headquarters. McMullen took the leadership reigns at WBB in 2008 and has since led WBB through a period of major wins on […] More