BAE Systems has signed an agreement with Vancouver-based renewable energy firm Instream Energy Systems to help develop and install new hydrokinetic power generation systems, which convert the kinetic energy in moving water into electricity. The agreement provides Insream with ongoing access to BAE’s Advanced Technology Centre to bolster its effort to commercially develop the technology. The [...]
Raytheon‘s Advanced Product Center was recently awarded the Manufacturing Excellence Award from the Association of Manufacturing Excellence. This is the third award for APC in three years and in 2010, the team won the Quality Texas Foundation’s Texas Award for Performance Excellence, the foundation’s highest level of recognition. The AME recognizes companies that have demonstrated operational [...]
Accenture is planning to add 200 workers to its Minneapolis office, according to a report in the Minneapolis and St. Paul Business Journal, making its operations there one of its fastest growing in North America. Jim Hammerand writes that David Wilson, the company’s managing partner for the office, quoted the number to attendees of last [...]
The U.S. Transportation Department has awarded Deloitte‘s financial advisory services branch a $1.2 million contract for professional, administrative and management support services, according to a report in the Washington Post. The report did not include any specific details about the work.
Gulf Air, the national carrier for the country of Bahrain, has renewed its reservation systems agreement with Sabre Airline Solutions. Sabre and the airline have been long-time business partners and their suite has a wide-ranging passenger service solution that offers end-to-end, fully integrated customer service solutions – from check-in facilities, reservations, ticketing, departure control [...]
Northrop Grumman Corp. has recently hit a key marker in weather forecasting with its launch of the advanced technology microwave sounder on the NPOESS Preparatory Project mission. The project provides weather forecasters with improved insight into the distribution of atmospheric moisture and temperature. Northrop’s ATMS was integrated into NPP in 2006 and provides improved sampling rate, spatial [...]
The USO of Metropolitan Washington honored both Northrop Grumman Corp. and Quest Software Friday for providing funding to the organization by naming the two companies to the organization’s first-ever “Circle of Stars.” “Supporting those who have given so much to defend our nation is deeply important to Northrop Grumman and to our employees,” said Sandra [...]
