Tag Archives: California

Aon Hewitt will help manage pension plans for California state employees, the company announced Thursday. The company will provide defined contribution administration, record keeping and participant advisory services to approximately 300,000 participants in the benefits plans, which total $8 billion. California’s Department of Personnel Administration is trying to help state …

SAIC Inc. will transfer 450 employees to McLean, Va. and other offices from San Diego, where the company was headquartered from its 1969 founding until it moved to McLean in 2009, the Washington Post reports. New locations for employees could also include Orlando or Oak Ridge, Tenn. as well as …

Accenture has won a potential $259 million contract with the California Health Benefit Exchange to develop health coverage eligibility and enrollment systems, the Exchange announced Thursday. The federal government will provide approximately $183 million for initial development and implementation of the system and an additional $176 million could continue system development …

Xerox subsidiary ACS Inc. is now managing California’s Medicaid claims processing system under a $1.6 billion contract signed in 2010, the company announced Tuesday. The subsidiary assumed operational responsibility for Medi-Cal in October 2011 and has processed more than 90 million claims to date, totaling $7.5 billion. The state has …

Siemens has won a General Services Administration contract to provide charging stations for electric vehicles, Siemens announced Friday. Siemens’ electric vehicle infrastructure business will provide electric stations to 20 Department of Veterans Affairs facilities in Michigan and California using the ChargePoint Network. The charging stations will offer cloud computing-based services …

Northrop Grumman Corp. facilities have won awards from the Cailifornia Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for waste reduction and green initiatives. Northrop said its aerospace systems sites in El Segundo, Palmdale, and Redondo Beach, Calif. won awards for collectively recycling one million pounds of material per year through the state’s Waste …

Raytheon will open a public safety technology research center Monday in Downey, Calif., near Los Angeles. Raytheon said the center will focus on developing open architecture and open communications standards to assist public safety agencies in their daily operations and incident response processes. Raytheon will demonstrate a vendor-neutral communications network …

CGI Group Inc. has announced that it has been selected by the California Department of Transportation to transform the state’s construction management system, utilizing business process management and a service-oriented architecture. The project is valued at $13.7 million over three years, including a year of system maintenance and operations, and contains possible …

Intel Corporation recently announced the formation of its new subsidiary Intel Federal LLC. The company will provide strategic focus in order to address new opportunities in working with the federal government. It was also announced that Dave Patterson has been appointed as president of Intel Federal Inc. Prior to his …

The California Public Utilities Commission recently adopted privacy rules for household smart meters to protect consumers from cyber intrusions that could compromise the security of energy use data and other private information. The decision marks the first of its kind for ensuring security measures. As part of its efforts to …

In an effort to develop the next generation of skilled cyber professionals, the Center for Information Assurance, in conjunction with the U.S. Cyber Challenge, the California Office of Information Security, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and the SANS Institute hosted a cyber camp in Calif. The participants in the four …

The Chief Security Strategist of Hosting.com, Jim Garrity, has joined the Advisory Committee on Cybersecurity for the Attorney General. California State Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris has formed the advisory committee to discuss the threat landscape, cybersecurity issues and industry trends along with policy recommendations to combat cyber crime and …