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Frost & Sullivan: Government Set for Wound Care Market Innovation, Growth

A new Frost & Sullivan report projectsÂ the government sector to be among the sources for new options to expand the worldâ€™s $9 billion wound care market. The market analystÂ urged wound care manufacturers to watch the public health industryÂ forÂ direction in advanced treatment andÂ cost management. â€œThe biggest opportunity for wound care manufacturers and suppliers will emerge from […] More

by Elizabeth Leigh October 23, 2014, 10:47 am
in Healthcare IT, News

Praescient Analytics: Data Analysis, Social Media, Crowdsourcing Key in Anti-Ebola Effort

Praescient Analytics has highlighted three ways healthcare providers could apply to efforts to stopÂ the spread of Ebola virus. Praescient said Wednesday that healthcare organizations could minimize the number of EbolaÂ infections of their workers ifÂ low infection probability is factored intoÂ infection prevention protocols. The low infection probability is based on a comparison byÂ Brookings Institution nonresident senior fellow […] More

by Jay Clemens October 23, 2014, 10:43 am
in News, Products & Service

Charles River Analytics to Help NASA Analysts Estimate Device Life; Avi Pfeffer Comments

Charles River Analytics will develop a probabilistic modeling system for NASA researchers to evaluate flight systems with a focus onÂ aviation safety. NASA analysts will workÂ to estimate theÂ remaining useful life of componentsÂ withÂ Charles River’s prediction technique under theÂ Programming Useful Life Prediction program,Â Charles River said Wednesday. â€œWe will be developing a new approach to RUL prediction by using […] More

by Jay Clemens October 23, 2014, 10:17 am
in News, Products & Service

Iridium, Trimble Ink SATCOM Integration Deal; David Wigglesworth, Ron Konezny Comment

Iridium CommunicationsÂ has agreed toÂ integrate itsÂ satellite communications system into theÂ core transportation and logistics offering ofÂ Trimble. Trimble will offer the product withÂ Iridium’sÂ satellite machine-to-machine connectivity services in Europe and other regions worldwide,Â Iridium said Thursday. David Wigglesworth, vice president andÂ general manager for Americas and global M2M services at Iridium, said Iridium’s global coverageÂ “will play an important role in Trimble’s […] More

by Jay Clemens October 23, 2014, 9:50 am
in Government Cloud, News

Booz Allen Releases Cloud Brokerage Project to Red Hat Community; Jarid Cottrell Comments

Booz Allen HamiltonÂ has open sourcedÂ its “Project Jellyfish” cloud broker project to users of Red Hat‘s ManageIQÂ platform to facilitate collaboration and broker-typeÂ management of cloud services across different environments. Booz Allen said WednesdayÂ the project’s code, processes, documentation and other resources are nowÂ available toÂ the ManageIQ community through the Booz Allen Hamilton account in GitHub. “The Federal Government is […] More

by Anna Forrester October 23, 2014, 8:05 am
in Industry News, News

Ian Thomas: Boeing-COMAC Partnership Seeks to Demo ‘Sustainable’ Aviation Biofuels

Boeing has partnered with Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China for a project that aims to convert used cooking oil into biodiesel fuel for the aviation market. The companies established a demonstration facility that will use a Hangzhou Energy & Engineering Technology-built technology designed to produce up to 160 gallons of jet fuel derived from purified […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman October 23, 2014, 7:44 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, Featured, General, News

Chris Checco: Razorsight-IBM Team to Help Mobile Operators Adopt Analytics-Based Marketing to Mobile Operators

RazorsightÂ and IBM have partnered to deliver an analyticsÂ tool aimedÂ to help drive the marketing strategy of mobile operators andÂ address both customer expectations and business needs. Razorsight said TuesdayÂ that IBM’s PureData for Analytics and SPSS offerings will leverageÂ Razorsight Predictive AnalyticsÂ to help mobile operators draw business insights such as the “Next Best Action” at the point of interaction […] More

by Anna Forrester October 23, 2014, 7:02 am
in C4ISR News, News

Rick Edwards: Lockheed, Roketsan Partner on F-35 Cruise Missile Offering

Lockheed Martin and Turkish weapons manufacturer Roketsan have signed a partnership agreement to develop, produce and market air-to-surface missiles for the F-35 fighter program. The companies seek to offer a new Standoff Cruise Missile variant that can be placed in F-35 internal carriage bays or on external carriage of other aircraft platforms, Lockheed said Tuesday. […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman October 23, 2014, 6:53 am
in News, Products & Service

Nick Leontidis: CAE Expands Dallas Pilot Training Facility to Meet Client Demand

CAEÂ has expanded its pilot training complex in DallasÂ with the addition ofÂ new training programs and aÂ 60,000-square-foot business aviation training center near the Dallas Fort Worth Airport. The new CAE Dallas East facility brings CAE’sÂ total trainingÂ area in the region to 486,000 square feetÂ that includesÂ 114Â classrooms, 80 briefing rooms and 40 flight simulators, the company said Tuesday. NickÂ Leontidis, group […] More

by Anna Forrester October 23, 2014, 5:59 am
in Industry News, News

LexisNexis Surveys Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Data with Industries, Gov’t; Dennis Becker Comments

LexisNexis Risk Solutions has conducted a survey on how government and commercial collection ofÂ personal identification information impacts consumer behavior. The company polledÂ more than 3,000 consumers over their willingness to share personal information with the financial, healthcare, retail and government sectors inÂ low, medium and high risk transactions,Â LexisNexis said Tuesday. â€œOrganizations need to be cognizant of how […] More

by Jay Clemens October 23, 2014, 5:45 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, News

IBM Launches Crowdsourced Supercomputer to Analyze Genomic Big Data

IBM has introduced a crowdsourced supercomputing system in an effort to help scientists develop new medicinal compounds based on genomic data analysis. TheÂ World Community Grid supercomputer works to access the computer power of thousands of volunteers worldwide in order to compare 200 million proteins registered from the genes of various life forms, IBM said Wednesday. […] More

by Jay Clemens October 23, 2014, 5:39 am
in Executive Spotlight, Featured, General, News

CFO Joe Donohue on Agilex’s Growth Trajectory, Strategies and His 5-Year GovCon Outlook

Joe Donohue oversees the management and oversight of financial operations at Agilex Technologies as chief financialÂ officer. Donohue’s financial leadershipÂ career includesÂ stints at bothÂ Marriott and Legent, followed by a role at Integec. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Donohue offers a five-year forecast of the GovCon sector and describes how many services contractors could reshape their portfolios. He […] More

by Ross Wilkers October 22, 2014, 3:11 pm