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Raytheon Donates $100K to Polish Technical Universities; Thomas Vecchiolla Comments

Raytheon Co. has donated $100,000 in educational investments to Poland’s Military University of Technology and Warsaw University of Technology with the goal to further STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) studies. Each university will receive half of the amount to finance scholarships and research programs in engineering, Raytheon said Thursday Thomas Vecchiolla, president of Raytheon […] More

by Neel Mehta July 10, 2015, 12:00 am
in News

Arlen Shenkman Promoted to CFO at SAP North America; Jen Morgan Comments

Arlen Shenkman, formerly global head of corporate development at SAP, has been promoted to chief financial officer of SAP North America. During his three years as SAPâ€™s global corporate development chief, Shenkman led the companyâ€™s strategic investment efforts and helped the software company acquire Concur, Fieldglass, BusinessObjects, hybris, SuccessFactors, Ariba and Sybase, SAP said Thursday. […] More

by Neel Mehta July 10, 2015, 12:00 am
in Government Technology, News

Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK to Sponsor Space Tech Conference; Richard Jackson Comments

Lockheed Martin and Orbital ATK have joined SpaceCom as new founding sponsors with focus on space technologies. SpaceCom said Thursday that the companies will sponsor the a SpaceCom conference set to take place from Nov. 17 through 19 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Richard Jackson, director of NASA programs at […] More

by Neel Mehta July 10, 2015, 12:00 am
in News

KBR Wins Magazine Award for Petrochemical Project in Saudi Arabia; Jay Ibrahim Comments

KBR has been recognized by Hydrocarbon Processing magazine for its work on a petrochemicalÂ complexÂ in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The engineering firm said Thursday it currently serves as project management contractor for the Sadara Chemical initiativeÂ and has performed preliminary front-end engineering design and feasibility work for theÂ project. KBR received the award at the International Refining and Petrochemical […] More

by Neel Mehta July 10, 2015, 12:00 am
in Executive Spotlight, Featured, General, News

Brian Neely on American Systems’ Ongoing Cloud Migration, His Dual CIO-CTO Hats

Brian Neely started his career at American Systems in 1996 forÂ his first post-college position in industryÂ and now holds the dual roles of chief information officer and chief technical officer at theÂ employee-owned government services contractor. Neely oversees planning and management functions for the company’s technology and information management-related resourcesÂ and has also supported acquisition initiatives there. ExecutiveBiz […] More

by reynolitoreso-or July 9, 2015, 1:33 pm
in Industry News, News

MarketsandMarkets: Interconnectivity to Drive Machine-to-Machine, Internet of Things Market Growth

A MarketsandMarketsÂ study predicts the machine-to-machine communications and Internet of Things market toÂ be worth $947.29 billion by 2019 due to an increase in the use of Internet-connected devices. The market research firm said Wednesday the M2M and IoT market will experience a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30 percent in the next four years. The […] More

by Jane Edwards July 9, 2015, 12:03 pm
in Big Data & Analytics News, News

Vion to Offer Hitachi Visualization Tools for Law Enforcement, Emergency Mgmt; Tom Frana Comments

VionÂ will offerÂ Hitachi Data Systems‘Â visualization products for data analytics to customers in the public sector, law enforcement and emergency management markets as both companies seek to growÂ their 35-year partnership. The companies plan to expand their combined services into social innovation and big data analytics in addition to joint storage offerings for U.S. federal government and public […] More

by Jay Clemens July 9, 2015, 11:02 am
in Industry News, News

MarketsandMarkets: Commercial Drone Market to See 109% CAGR Through 2020

A MarketsandMarkets report projects that unmanned aerial vehicles for commercial use will grow from a $15.22 million business in 2014 to a $1.27 billion market by 2020. The compound annual growth rate for the commercial UAV industry is projected to reach 109.31 percent over the next six years, MarketsandMarkets said Wednesday. The research firm also […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman July 9, 2015, 10:20 am
in Healthcare IT, News

CGI, Highmark Extend Healthcare Auditing Tech Contract

CGI has been awarded a contract by Highmark to continue helping the Pittsburg-based health insurer audit and validate medical claims with a CGI technology. CGI designed its Customized Audit System platform for healthcare payers to identify coding errors and overpayments, the company said Wednesday. â€œMore timely, accurate notification of overpayments will also help our healthcare […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman July 9, 2015, 9:24 am
in Government Cloud, News

IBM Offers Nvidiaâ€™s Dual-GPU Platform on Cloud-Based Bare Metal Servers

IBM has integrated Nvidiaâ€™s dual graphics processing unit boards with its cloud-based SoftLayer bare metal servers in an effort to help companies manage analytics and big data workloads in a cloud environment. IBM said Wednesday customers will now be able to use Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU accelerators on its IBM Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform to handle […] More

by Jane Edwards July 9, 2015, 9:00 am
in News, Products & Service

Lockheed to Install 2nd Instrument on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft

Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business will install a point spectrometer developed by NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center for theÂ Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security â€“ Regolith Explorer. The space agency said WednesdayÂ theÂ OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared SpectrometerÂ will work to help OSIRIS-REx identify water resources and organic materials on the surface of the Bennu asteroid by […] More

by Anna Forrester July 9, 2015, 8:54 am
in Cybersecurity News, Industry News, News

Report: Lack of Cybersecurity Training Among Staff Poses Risks for Metals Sector

A Metals Service Center Institute-commissioned study has found that the lack of cybersecurity guidelines and inadequate training of employees to identify phishing scams and other threats pose risks for most metals firms. â€œWith data breaches happening frequently, our members â€” and all companies â€” must be concerned about the safety of their data and honestly […] More

by Jane Edwards July 9, 2015, 8:34 am