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Sarah Allen serves as Leidos‘ chief human resources officer and is an executive vice president at the GovCon firm, where she works to use recruitment and retention efforts to generate competitive advantage and help the firm grow. Allen had been with SAIC for around four years when it separated into national security, engineering and healthcare technology […] More
AT&T is taking first steps in transforming its network into a data center, according to a gigaom article. AT&T has started working with Affirmed Networks to replace its LTE mobile core with a virtualized core. “We’re calling it the ‘User-Defined Network Cloud.’ What does this mean for our customers? For one, this vision is focused on allowing […] More
Opower, an energy software company based in Arlington, Va., has filed documents to become a public company and plans to raise $100 million, according to a Gigaom article. Opower was founded in 2007 by Alex Laskey and Dan Yates and works with utilities to make products such as itemized energy bills, emailed energy efficiency tips and […] More
Facebook is in talks to buy Titan Aerospace for $60 million, according to a TechCrunch article. Sarah Perez writes that Facebook would like to build 11,000 drones in order to blanket parts of the earth that currently do not have internet access, with connectivity. Facebook will utilize Titan Aerospace’s Solara 60 for the project, according to […] More
Carlos Fernandes serves as director of Salient Federal Solutions‘ Cyber Security Center of Excellence and recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Insurance Technology Association. The more-than 21-year information security veteran was the founder, managing principal and CEO of Agile Cybersecurity Solutions prior to joining Salient. The Air Force veteran has also held leadership roles at CACI, L-3, Booz Allen […] More
David Lawee, partner at Google Capital, wrote a blog post on Google’s official blog where he announced the formation of a new growth equity fund. The fund will be led by Lawee, Scott Tierney and Gene Frantz and will work with companies that are about to hit their growth phase. Lawee says future partner companies will have […] More
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
Raytheon‘s tactical control system was designed to operate drones in all branches of the U.S. military and the TCS is now receiving a software upgrade, according to a Military Aerospace article. John Keller writes that Raytheon Technical Services is poised to switch the software on the control system from Solaris to Linux software as well as upgrade the […] More
Cisco and AGT International have created a smart city global strategic alliance that applies the concept of the Internet of Everything in urban management and security, using technology to detect and resolve incidents. Cisco said Wednesday, a combination of its video management technology and AGT’s platform of sensors and data analytics is expected to provide […] More
ITT isattempting to capitalize on the need for bridges, high-rise buildings, stadiums and city centers to have greater durability and survivability by offering an array of energy absorption and vibration isolation devices, ITT said Thursday. Using its Enidine brand, ITT’s control technologies continues to diversify its manufacturing capabilities by pushing into the seismic technologies market. These offerings are meant to help protect […] More
Exelis has delivered the first of four meteorological payloads for a future U.S. weather satellite of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, moving the program forward toward the planned satellite launch in 2016, Exelis said Tuesday Eric Webster, Exelis Geospatial Systems vice president for weather systems, said, “Delivery . . . is an important milestone because it […] More
Oracle’s Health Sciences unit has partnered with Nuance Communications to integrate their technologies for a clinical trial process that works around the concerns of productivity, cost and participant retention of health sciences groups, Oracle said Monday. Oracle’s e-clinical software and Nuance’s speech recognition healthcare technology will combine to develop a data management offering for mobile […] More
