Honeywell has established a center of excellence in Phoenix to maintain engines that power CH-47 Chinook helicopters flown by the U.S. Army and international defense customers. The T55 Repair and Overhaul CoE is close to Honeywell's aerospace business headquarters and co-located with its engine production and engineering operations, the company said Thursday.
Read More »Octo Consulting Names Rob Albritton AI CoE Senior Director; Mehul Sanghani, Sujey Edward Quoted
Octo Consulting has appointed Rob Albritton, an award-winning artificial intelligence and machine learning leader, as senior director of the company’s AI Center of Excellence, Octo announced on Tuesday.
Read More »Dell, World Wide Technology, Launch 5G Deployment Center of Excellence; Kevin Shatzkamer Quoted
World Wide Technology has teamed up with Dell Technologies to establish a center of excellence dedicated to the creation of open-source 5G deployment blueprints.
Read More »HighPoint’s Cal Shintani: GSA, USDA Make Strides in Customer Experience Through Centers of Excellence
Cal Shintani, chief growth officer at HighPoint Global, has said there are signs of improvement in the federal government’s effort to build up customer experience. Shintani wrote in an article that there are reports that show progress in customer experience and one of those is the Government CX Insights report, which …
Read More »ECS Builds Center of Excellence for Cloud Support Services; John Sankovich Comments
ECS has established a center of excellence to help government and commercial customers orchestrate cloud computing initiatives and manage the life cycle of cloud adoption strategies. The company said Monday its Cloud CoE will provide clients access to multiple technology platforms from Amazon Web Services, IBM, Microsoft and Google. John Sankovich, vice president of cloud solutions at ECS, said …
Read More »Honeywell Opens Dubai-Based Industrial Cybersecurity Hub
Honeywell has opened a facility in Dubai, United Arab Emirates that will function as a test environment for network systems and a cyber defense training ground. The company said Tuesday its industrial cybersecurity center of excellence seeks to help customers address potential vulnerabilities and threats in process control networks as …
Read More »Capgemini to Help UK Govt Establish Robotic Process Automation Center
Capgemini has been selected by the U.K. cabinet office to establish a center of excellence for robotic process automation over a two-year period. The company said Wednesday the CoE will aim to help accelerate the British government’s adoption of RPA technology designed to automate clerical processes. The center will employ a …
Read More »GSA Seeks Info on Support Sources for White House Innovation Office’s Centers of Excellence
The General Services Administration has asked information on potential vendors that can provide support services for the White House Office of American Innovation’s four proposed centers of excellence and its technology initiatives. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service is interested in companies that can help COEs …
Read More »Honeywell to Establish APAC Cyber Innovation Hub
Honeywell‘s process solutions business plans to open a facility in Singapore by the end of 2017 to provide managed cybersecurity services intended to help Asia-Pacific customers manage security posture and avoid breaches. The company said Thursday its cybersecurity center of excellence for the APAC region will feature a research-and-development laboratory, a security operations center and a …
Read More »DHS Seeks Academic Institution to Lead New CoE for Homeland Security Quantitative Analysis
The Department of Homeland Security plans to provide $40 million in funds to an institution that will lead a new center of excellence for homeland security quantitative analysis. DHS said Monday the funds will cover 10 years of CoE operations under a cooperative agreement with the lead institution. The department added it also seeks potential partners from …
Read More »Lockheed, Exechon, Injaz Form UAE-Based Machining Tech Development JV
Lockheed Martin and technology companies Injaz National and Exechon have created a joint venture to build and offer machining tools for the aerospace, defense and automotive industries. Abu Dhabi-based Exechon Enterprises will be led by Karl-Erik Neumann and aims to produce automated technology for the production of advanced components, Lockheed said Monday. The JV also plans …
Read More »Billy Maynard: Health Net Federal Services Gets BenchmarkPortal, HIPAA Certifications
Health Net Federal Services has received a certification from BenchmarkPortal in recognition of the company’s work to improve its call center operations. “The BenchmarkPortal Center of Excellence certification demonstrates Health Net Federal Service’s commitment to complement the military’s health care system and help ensure we are performing at our highest capabilities and …
Read More »Red Hat, Cisco Establish Center of Excellence in India
Red Hat and Cisco have opened a new Center of Excellence in India that offers their combined open source and enterprise cloud technologies to clients, PCQuest reported Wednesday. Included in the center’s offerings are OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat CloudForms, Adeesh Sharma writes. According to the …
Read More »IBM Launching Big Data, Analytics Programs at Chinese Universities; D.C. Chien Comments
IBM is donating $100 million in big data and analytics software and establishing programs at 100 universities in China as part of the IBM U-100 project to foster a future workforce skilled in big data and analytics. The company said Tuesday that U-100 is an extension of the existing partnership between the company and China’s education …
Read More »Northrop to Grow Florida-Based Aircraft Design Facility; Tom Vice Comments
Northrop Grumman plans to expand its Melbourne, Fla.-based manned aircraft design center with a new series of investments. The company wants to grow its Melbourne facility by 220,000 square feet and open 300 additional jobs, Northrop said Thursday. “This expansion further cements our strong partnership with Florida, and will greatly benefit …
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