Boeing has reached a tentative agreement on a four-year extension of its contract with the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers that is set to expire in September 2012, the company announced Wednesday. The contract still needs to be ratified by IAM members in the states of Kansas, Washington and Oregon. In conjunction with that announcement, Boeing also [...]
Accenture and AT&T have launched a medical imaging solution for radiologists and healthcare professionals, the companies announced yesterday. The joint solution incorporates Accenture’s medical imaging solution as part of AT&T’s medical imaging and information management solution, which is a cloud-based, non-vendor service. One goal of the platform is to allow hospitals to move away from traditional storage methods [...]
ACS, A Xerox Company has won a six-year contract worth $14 million to design and implement an information sharing system for the state of Connecticut’s Criminal Justice Governing Board, the company announced today. ACS said the system will include a portal for agencies to access and share records. It is intended to enable 50,000 users to [...]
MAXIMUS announced today it has signed a contract worth $11.9 million with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals to provide enrollment broker services for the state’s BAYOU HEALTH Medicaid managed care program. Under the three-year contract, MAXIMUS will provide choice counseling and enrollment services to members of the state’s five health managed care plans. The company [...]
ATK has won a $20 million contract from the Orbital Sciences Corporation to provide its solar array technology to power a logistics space vehicle being used under NASA‘s Commercial Resupply System contract. The contract calls for ATK’s UltraFlex solar arrays to power Orbital’s Cygnus spacecraft, which will incorporate a larger pressurized cargo module capable of carrying [...]
The U.S. State Department and Congress have approved Raytheon Co.’s $1.7 billion direct commercial sales contract to upgrade the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Patriot air and missile defense system, the company announced today. Raytheon said the upgrade to the latest configuration-3 will include an interoperability capability that will help enable potential coalition operations. It also [...]
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. today announced it will work with NASA to develop a mission concept for demonstrating solar electric propulsion in space under a $600,000 study contract. Ball said the mission concept studies will identify technology gaps and look to implement technical solutions for transportation using solar electric propulsion systems. NASA will then [...]
