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Following a recent Defense Department announcement that it is developing a laser weapon against enemy drones, The Telegraph listed Tuesday 10 other “weird” U.S. military weapons and gadgets in the pipeline. Rosa Prince reports on the following equipment that will soon be used in the battlefield, leveraging technologies that range from robotics to advanced weaponry and […] More
Cubic Worldwide Technical Services today announced they have been awarded a task order under the U.S. Navy‘s Fielded Training Systems Support contract. The five-year program has a value of $65 million to provide operations and maintenance support of training devices for aircraft like the MH-60S helicopter. Al Sargeant, senior vice president and general manager of […] More
CH2M HILL has won a five-year contract to provide operations, maintenance, repair and replacement services for the water and wastewater systems and other public infrastructure of Ontario, Oregon. Ontario Mayor LeRoy Cammack said Monday the public-private partnership with CH2M HILL provides the city access to the company’s resources and expertise while maintaining full ownership of the facilities. He […] More
Oracle Corp. is close to making a deal with Micros Systems, Inc. to buy the company for $5 billion, Bloomberg reported Monday. Alex Sherman and Dina Bass write that Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO, is in talks with restaurant and hotel software provider, Micros systems about acquiring them in hopes of spurring growth into the cloud software […] More
Cisco announced Tuesday their intention to acquire privately held Tail-f Systems for $175 million, a plan set in motion by AT&T to reshape and virtualize telecommunications networks in the cloud. Cisco aims to incorporate Tail-f into its cloud and virtualization group to increase marketability in telecom infrastructure, the company said in the release. Hilton Romanski, […] More
DigitalGlobe has launched an environmental conservation campaign in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy to locate invasive plants or weeds growing in Hawaii’s native forests using its Tomnod crowdsourcing platform. Beginning with high-resolution aerial photos of Kauai rainforests, users are expected to pinpoint weeds such as the Australian Tree Fern and African Tulip Tree to help the conservancy target its efforts to eliminate […] More
Deloitte‘s Australian business has partnered with CFO-level consulting firm Analytics Group to bolster its accounting and finance consulting practice, as the chief financial officer’s role grows across government agencies amid ongoing fiscal challenges. Deloitte said Tuesday two partners and 19 staffers from Analytics Group will work with its team in Canberra to provide financial management, planning, budgeting and […] More
URS has been tapped to set up an integrated engineering environment for LNG Canada‘s proposed liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia as the project’s main information contractor. “LNG Canada has chosen us as a partner to ensure coordinated, consistent, complete and accurate data for the entire project life cycle,” Mark Costello, general manager of URS’ industrial […] More
Quantum Technology Sciences has closed its target $4.4 million series-A funding round, the company announced Tuesday. The provider of intrusion detection and movement monitoring products has a number of investors including Anthem Ventures, Cobalt International Energy, Infinity Oil & Gas and the McNair Group. Mark Tinker, Quantum CEO, said his company’s technology uses a single […] More
Harris Corp. has completed the installation and integration of 89 out of 155 ground segment components of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — R Series weather monitoring tool of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said Tuesday the tested network infrastructure hardware and software is located at NOAA’s satellite operations facilities in Suitland, Maryland; Wallops Island, Virginia; and […] More
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated a new maritime surveillance radar that the company modified from a manned aircraft system built by Telephonics Corp. The company and Navy flew the MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter for the demonstration as part of the efforts to help Navy commanders increase their long-range imaging and search capabilities, Northrop said Tuesday. […] More
IBM has partnered with the Southern Ontario Water Consortium to develop a data integration platform to manage Canada’s 80 sq km Grand River watershed, using sensor technology to collect data such as water turbidity and quality. IBM said Monday the platform uses at least 120 meteorological, surface, subsurface and groundwater sensors that integrate 600 data points an hour […] More
