A nonprofit organization representing many homeland security contractors is starting a new forum to establish dialogue with the Transportation Security Administration, Government Executive reports. The companies, members of the Washington Homeland Security Roundtable, have created a senior executive industry forum that will start with a meeting on June 5 with TSA Administrator John Pistole. Accenture, [...]
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 [...]
Corinne Minton-Package is director of IBM’s business strategy and a communications leader for the public sector business within general business services. She manages business strategies in relation to IBM’s federal, state and local government customers. Minton-Package is part of a large organization that provides healthcare, cloud, analytics, infrastructure, security and additional services to the government [...]
IBM and the Philippines have signed an agreement to build the country’s first research and development laboratory for systems and technology, the company announced Thursday. This year marks the 75th year of the company’s presence in the Philippines, said Mariels Almeda Winhoffer, president and country general manager. The center aligns with the Filipino government’s strategic [...]
Andras Szakal is vice president and chief technology officer for IBM’s federal division, which provides leadership, expertise and reachback into company’s research and product development organizations. The federal CTO team also manages a high tech lab environment to support partner IRAD’s and technology integration activities necessary to address complex customer initiatives. The team supports the company’s [...]
IBM and a business partner will help a Canadian electricity provider update Ontario’s electrical system through a new smart grid project, the company announced Tuesday. The company said Ontario’s existing electricity infrastructure was built in the 1950s and parts of the system are at the end of their service life. New technologies, provincial governmental policy, [...]
IBM has won a $8,987,156 U.S. Army contract to provide research and development services, the Defense Department announced Monday. IBM will perform work under the cost-type contract in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. and the Pentagon expects work to be completed by May 1, 2015. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Durham, N.C., is the contracting activity.
