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Informatica has been ranked as a tier-one company in the current offering and market presence categories of Forrester Research’s big data market report. The Forrester Wave: Big Data Fabric Q4 2016 recognizes Informatica for the company’s visual and metadata-driven development environment that Forrester says aids in the increase of developer productivity, Informatica said Tuesday. Informatica’s […] More
NTT Data has performed a 12-day field study with the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences to test the capability of big data-based simulation platforms to regulate traffic signals and mitigate traffic congestion in the city of Guiyang in China. NTT Data said Monday it conducted the study with ISCAS from Sept. 19 through Sept. […] More
Microelectronics Advanced Research Corp. has secured a $15.5 million contract modification to continue to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency establish a network of multi-university research centers in the U.S. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification covers the fifth year of MARCO’s support for DARPA’s Focus Center Research Program-Semiconductor Technology Advanced Research Network. DARPA will obligate $7.7 million in fiscal 2016 […] More
A General Dynamics subsidiary has received a $24.7 million contract to provide planning yard services for the U.S. Navy‘s nuclear-powered submarines and moored training ships. General Dynamics Electric Boat will furnish, manufacture and procure materials, supplies and services necessary for the operation of the planning yard for nuclear-powered submarine reactor and propulsion facilities, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will occur in […] More
Donna Harris is due to step down from her role as co-CEO of Washington, D.C.-based seed fund and startup incubator 1776 by the end of January 2017. She will remain at 1776 as a board member and partner in the fund while her co-CEO and co-founder Evan Burfield will become the sole CEO, the company said Wednesday. Harris wrote in an article published […] More
Kay Kapoor, president of the global public sector solutions business at AT&T, has won a silver award in the Woman of the Year category at the 2016 Stevie Awards for Women in Business in recognition of her leadership and contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. She is one of the six female […] More
Research and Markets has released a new report that predicts the public safety and security market will reach $456.56 billion by 2021 from $247.53 billion in 2016, or a compound annual growth rate of 13 percent. The report cites the rise in criminal activities, natural disaster and cross border terrorism, public safety policies and regulations […] More
Doug Oathout, formerly vice president of converged infrastructure and alliance marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has joined Black Box Corp. as VP of strategic partner relations. Oathout will oversee the company’s holistic and innovative partner strategy with his more than 20 years of experience in partner relations and marketing, Black Box said Nov. 21. “We […] More
Bill Brown, formerly head of commercial business in Europe, Middle East and Africa region at Dell, has taken a lead role at the EMEA enterprise services organisation of Unisys Corp. Brown will be responsible for the commercial division in EMEA and the delivery of security, application services, cloud and infrastructure and end user services to […] More
Kratos‘ subsidiary Composite Engineering Inc. has been awarded a $17.75 million contract to supply a high performance unmanned aerial target drone system for two separate sites of an international client. CEI, a business unit of Kratos’ unmanned systems division, will also provide BQM-167i unmanned aerial target drone aircraft, support and command and control equipment, spares […] More
Samsung SDS, a Samsung subsidiary, has selected Elbit Systems‘ Cyberbit company to provide services meant to protect Samsung SDS’ clients from cyber attacks. Samsung SDS and Cyberbit will use Cyberbit’s SCADAShield to perform non-intrusive deep-packet inspection on Korean customers’ critical infrastructure, Elbit said Wednesday. SCADAShield is designed to protect customers’ critical infrastructure from cyber attacks […] More
Alan Davies has departed his role at the board of directors of Rolls-Royce as a non-executive director. Davies joined the board on Nov. 1, 2015 and has been a member of the nominations and governance committee, the audit committee and the safety and ethics committee, Rolls-Royce reported Friday “I am hugely grateful to Alan for […] More
