Computer Sciences Corp. has signed a five-and-a-half year IT outsourcing contract renewal and expansion with the Educational Testing Service, which aims to advance the quality and equity of education for people worldwide. If all options are exercised, the agreement has an estimated value of more than $200 million. CSC has provided IT solutions for ETS since 2001. [...]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has selected Harris Corp. to participate in a mentor-protégé program with Spatial Data Integrations Inc. The program selects prime contractors to help small businesses develop technical and business capabilities that will help them compete for prime contract and subcontract awards. Harris will mentor SDI in remotely sensed data processing and quality [...]
The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. built satellite, NASA’s NPP, has been successfully launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II rocket early this morning. This is the first Earth-observing satellite built to measure both global climate and key weather data. Ball Aerospace built the BCP 2000 satellite bus [...]
NetApp has recently been named the third best work place in the world by The Great Place to Work Institute Inc. The firm joins 25 multinational companies that have been recognized by their employees for their company culture and workplace environments. “This recognition is a testament to our employees, who bring their passion and [...]
ITT Corp. was named among the top U.S. publicly traded companies in the 2011 Newsweek Green Rankings for its continual commitment to instilling environmentally responsible practices. It received the 150th spot of 500 U.S. corporations recognized. ITT has been recognized each year since the inception of the list in 2009. The policies and programs that ITT has [...]
Citizant has recently adopted a new Distracted Driving Policy that supports new federal acquisition regulations and guidelines as promoted by the Transportation Department on the distraction.gov Web site. The firm created this policy to support Federal Acquisition Regulation, first authorized in an executive order by President Obama in 2009 and finalized in the FAR [...]
IBM and the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland are developing groundbreaking research to lessen the environmental effect of converting wave energy into electricity. This project is one of the first in-depth studies on how to utilize the ocean as a new renewable energy resource as well as determining potentially harmful wave energy devices. “Underwater noise is a [...]
