Northrop Grumman has opened a new 42,000-square-foot office in Arlington Heights, Ill., which will supplement its existing 46-acre facility in Rolling Meadows, Daily Herald reported Monday. The expansion will help the company enhance services for customers in the area of national security, Mary Petryszyn, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s …
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Northbrook, Illinois-based security company UL has secured a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant to perform cybersecurity tests of internet-of-things gateways designed for industrial control system applications. UL said Wednesday it aims to identify the main areas of an industrial IoT gateway that can affect the cybersecurity of an ICS as well as data that traverses …
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Envistacom has supported the deployment of communications networks and supporting infrastructure to the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s facility at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. The company said Thursday it led the design, installation, configuration and testing of three communications networks at DISA’s 164,000-square-foot complex. Tom Proctor, vice president of operations at Envistacom, said …
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Direct Steel has won a potential 14-month, $10.3 million contract from the U.S. Army to construct a maintenance building, fire pump house and a lockmaster facility at Olmsted Lock and Dam in Illinois. The Army Corps of Engineers received five proposals for the firm-fixed-price contract and will obligate the full contract amount …
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Cheryle Jackson, vice president of government affairs and corporate development at AAR, has been named president of the Wood Dale, Illinois-based aerospace and defense contractor’s business unit in Africa. AAR said Tuesday she will be responsible for helping grow the company’s aviation maintenance and supply chain operations across the African continent. Jackson and her team …
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The Virginia-class attack submarine Illinois has completed its first voyage into open seas and has returned to a shipyard run by General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary. General Dynamics said Monday the nuclear-powered submarine submerged for the first time and underwent a number of submarine and propulsion-plant operations and high-speed runs on and below the surface …
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An Iron Mountain records storage and shredding facility in Illinois has received approval from the National Archives and Records Administration for compliance with federal records storage regulations. The company said Wednesday the Hanover Park facility is its eighth NARA-compliant storage and shredding services operations branch, which brings Iron Mountain’s total compliant storage …
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Microsoft will collaborate with Dominion Virginia Power and the government of Virginia to build a new solar energy facility in Fauquier County through a public-private partnership. The companies and the government of Virginia expect the facility to commence operations in 2017 and supply the state’s power grid with 20 megawatts …
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Leidos has won a three-year, $55 million prime contract to implement programs for Ameren Illinois‘ ActOnEnergy energy efficiency offerings as Leidos extends its services to both business and residential customers. The time and material contract also includes rebates and incentives for low- and moderate-income households, Leidos said Thursday. The company added that it has …
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CNSI has teamed up with the states of Illinois and Michigan to roll out a cloud computing-enabled Medicaid system in both states. The technology partnership involves development and deployment of an automated real-time Medicaid Management Information System, or Medicaid-as-a-service, CNSI said Monday. Illinois started the project on July 23 and …
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IBM is providing its big data management software to Illinois’ Department of Human Services, aiming to help the agency digitally process thousands of documents. The department uses IBM’s enterprise content management big data technologies to digitize calculation sheets, application forms and a Form 514 chronological record to determine benefit eligibility …
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Xerox Corp. has won a $42 million prime contract from the state of Illinois to help the state process transactions for a supplemental nutrition assistance program, the company announced Tuesday. The company previously provided the state with electronic benefit transfer services as a subcontractor, starting in 2003. Under the five-year …
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