Concurrent Technologies Corp. will continue helping the Forest Service develop business processes and technologies for human resources, the nonprofit organization announced Thursday. The company received a $1.4 million extension, bringing the contract’s total value to more than $8 million and extending the period of performance to November. President and CEO Ed Sheehan Jr. said the [...]
Boeing recently sponsored an industry event in Malaysia to explore business and investment opportunities there, the company announced Wednesday. Representatives from 75 Malaysian and U.S. companies attended the May 2 conference in St. Louis, co-sponsored by the Malaysian Investment Development Authority to discuss industry goals and opportunities in the country. Former Sen. Christopher Bond told event [...]
ITT Exelis’ information systems division was recognized by the Small Business Administration for its use of small businesses as subcontractors, the company announced Wednesday. Mike Wilson, president for information systems, accepted the Dwight D. Eisenhower Award for Excellence in the research and development category on behalf of the company in Washington on Tuesday. During remarks at [...]
Parsons‘ government services unit has recently helped the Energy Department install six large nuclear material processing tanks at a South Carolina-based processing facility. The department said Parsons is contracted to build and operate the Savannah River Site’s salt waste processing facility for one year and provide 10 tanks total. Four more tanks will be shipped to [...]
The Small Business Administration may allow small businesses with outside investors to obtain set-aside federal research funds, Jill Aitoro reports on the Washington Business Journal. Under a proposed rule, small businesses majority-owned by outside investors could qualify for the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the 1992 Small Business Technology Transfer Act. Businesses would be eligible [...]
A recent Forbes magazine study ranks the greater Washington area as the second best city for technology jobs in the nation. Forbes conducted the study based on two-year and 10-year job growth numbers for science, technology, engineering and mathematics and tech jobs in the Washington area. Washington’s technology-related jobs grew by 20.6 percent since 2011 and [...]
IBM has won a one-year contract from the General Services Administration to help the agency track energy usage at the federal government’s 50 highest energy-consuming buildings, GSA announced Monday. The company develop a system to monitor building performance and stream data to a central facility for analysis and decision making. GSA awarded the contract to [...]
