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  • Battelle to Explore Green Buildings for Schools; Ian MacGregor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Explore Green Buildings for Schools; Ian MacGregor Comments

    Battelle has signed an agreement with the U.S. Green Building Council to find the “real value” of green building design and construction. The USGBC Central Ohio Chapter has selected Battelle to execute the Green Schools Research Program’s educational component, the company announced Wednesday. Battelle will use statistical modeling techniques to define whether or not there is a […] More

  • Vormetric Report Analyzes Insider Threat Trends; Alan Kessler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vormetric Report Analyzes Insider Threat Trends; Alan Kessler Comments

    Vormetric has released the results of a report indicating that insider threats have extended into privileged users and advanced persistent threats. The report, conducted in collaboration with Ovum, shows that three percent of U.S. companies consider their organizations to be free from attacks and 47 percent feel unsafe, Vormetric said Thursday. Nine percent of European […] More

  • IBM Selects 11 New Fellows; Ginni Rometty Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Selects 11 New Fellows; Ginni Rometty Comments

    IBM has selected a record number of company scientists and researchers from the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and Germany to receive the IBM Fellow honor, the company’s highest technical distinction. The 11 new Fellows will work to carry out the company’s Technology Ambassador Initiative, a program intended to drive growth through innovation, IBM announced Tuesday. “The […] More

  • Ian Irving: Northrop to Help Australia Explore Defense Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ian Irving: Northrop to Help Australia Explore Defense Technology

    Northrop Grumman and Australia’s defence science and technology organisation will collaborate to research emerging technologies in electronic warfare, C4ISR and unmanned systems. Ian Irving, Northrop’s chief executive for Australia, has signed the partnership agreement with Australia’s chief defense scientist Alex Zelinsky, the company said Wednesday. “We’ve seen significant developments in these areas in recent years and […] More

  • Joslin Diabetes Center Joins Oracle Health Sciences Network; Jonathan Sheldon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joslin Diabetes Center Joins Oracle Health Sciences Network; Jonathan Sheldon Comments

    Joslin Diabetes Center has moved to grow its clinical trial research work and collaborations with industry by joining the Oracle Health Sciences Network. Boston-based Joslin will upload authorized and de-identified clinical data in an Oracle cloud environment as a network member, Oracle announced Tuesday. Jonathan Sheldon, Oracle Health Sciences global vice president, said the network’s goal is […] More

  • Spectrum Health Opens New Michigan Research Facility; Sandra Rempel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spectrum Health Opens New Michigan Research Facility; Sandra Rempel Comments

    Spectrum Health has opened a new facility in Michigan to support its clinical trial efforts, research programs and academic opportunities, Grand Rapids Business Journal reported Friday. Rachel Weick writes that the Spectrum Health Basic and Translational Research Laboratories is a 9,000-square-foot renovated laboratory at the Cooper’s Landing building. The company’s employees will have access to […] More

  • David Wigglesworth: Iridium to Deploy Satellite Network for Oceanic Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Wigglesworth: Iridium to Deploy Satellite Network for Oceanic Research Project

    Iridium Communications will help Rutgers University’s Coastal Ocean Observation Lab researchers collect data from a research project across five major ocean basins through the company’s satellite network. A team of Rutgers students and faculty will work to coordinate flights of autonomous underwater gliders worldwide with the goal of gathering undersea datasets in order to predict how […] More

  • David Zolet: CSC to Open Tech Center at Cyber Research Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Zolet: CSC to Open Tech Center at Cyber Research Facility

    Computer Sciences Corp. plans to establish a technology center at a Bossier, La.-based cyber research facility, where the company intends to make available 800 jobs in four years. CSC selected the 3,000-acre National Cyber Research Park being developed by the Cyber Innovation Center in Bossier City for its planned 116,000-square-foot technology hub under a public-private […] More

  • IBM Inks Cyber Research Deal With Australian Military; Glenn Wightwick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Inks Cyber Research Deal With Australian Military; Glenn Wightwick Comments

    IBM will conduct cybersecurity research for Australia’s Defense Science and Technology Organization as the country aims to bolster its cyber infrastructure, ARN reported Monday. Brian Karlovsky writes IBM and the DSTO will collaborate on cybersecurity, analytics and cognitive computing research work. Glenn Wightwick, director of IBM Research Australia, said the company intends to contribute to the […] More

  • Three Purdue University Professors Get Funds to Commercialize Research Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Three Purdue University Professors Get Funds to Commercialize Research Projects

    Three professors at Purdue University’s colleges of engineering and science will work to develop and commercialize their research projects with around $130,000 in combined funding. The financial assistance will come from the Trask Innovation Fund, which aims to help faculty and staff further and market their works through the Office of Technology Commercialization, the Purdue […] More

  • IBM Invests $100M in Watson Computer Africa Roll Out; Kamal Bhattacharya Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Invests $100M in Watson Computer Africa Roll Out; Kamal Bhattacharya Comments

    IBM Corp. wants to invest $100 million in a 10-year initiative to roll out its artificial intelligence and cognitive systems in Africa in an effort to seek business opportunities in the region. IBM will deploy the Watson technology from its Africa research laboratory, where researchers can develop new services in healthcare, education, water and sanitation, […] More

  • HP Examines Enterprise Security Risks, Threat Landscape; Jacob West Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Examines Enterprise Security Risks, Threat Landscape; Jacob West Comments

    Hewlett-Packard has released the results of a research report that sought to identify enterprise security risks and analyze the threat landscape. HP Security Research’s cyber risk report cited mobile device usage, insecure software and Java applications as among the main contributors to the growing attacks in 2013, HP said Monday. “Adversaries today are more adept than ever […] More