Tag Archives: Los Angeles

John Pi, formerly a supervisory special agent at the FBI, has been named chief medical officer at DSFederal.

IBM has partnered with the government of Los Angeles and LA Cyber Lab to help local businesses defend against cyberattacks through the delivery of technologies and tools.

Serco Inc. announced on Thursday that the company has been awarded three new task orders with a cumulative value of $16.4M, in the last 30 days under the U.S. Navy’s SPAWAR Global Installation contract vehicle.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in California has implemented a Salesforce-powered unified payment system for local commuters to pay for travel through a single digital hub. Publicis.Sapient helped LA Metro architect and launch the TAPforce on the Salesforce Platform to serve as a “one-stop shop” for payment transactions and program registrations across …

Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has completed the delivery of two S-70i Black Hawk helicopters that will be modified into a specialized configuration for the use of the Los Angeles county’s fire department. The turnover ceremony for the future Firehawk-configuration aircraft occurred in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Lockheed said Wednesday. Thomas Ewald, deputy fire chief of the …

General Dynamics‘ mission systems business unit has received a $36.7 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Navy modernize software for tactical control system of the military branch’s submarines. The Defense Department said Friday the contract modification exercises the eighth option year of a previously awarded contract to support …

Huntington Ingalls Industries has launched the U.S. Navy‘s future Indiana submarine into James River and transferred the watercraft from a construction facility to a pier managed by the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in preparation for final crew certification, outfitting and testing. Indiana, dubbed as SSN 789, will represent the 16th Virginia-class submarine of the Navy …

CGI has secured a 10-year, $43 million contract to provide cloud-hosting and managed digital application services for Los Angeles City’s accounting, budgeting and financial reporting systems. CGI said Tuesday it will deliver its Managed Advantage offering, which serves as the company’s managed service for its CGI Advantage enterprise resource planning system. Managed Advantage …

Boeing will consolidate facilities and move workloads across Los Angeles County, St. Louis and Huntsville, Alabama as part of a realignment within the company’s defense segment. The company said Tuesday it plans to reduce 4.5 million square feet by the end of 2020 and move positions from Kent, Washington to Tukwila while work from …

The Energy Department has awarded $31 million in total funds to support 14 window coating and windowpane development projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s Single-Pane Highly Insulating Efficient Lucid Design program. DOE said Monday ARPA-E’s SHIELD program seeks to retrofit single-pane windows through the development of novel window coatings …

PARC has received funds from the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to develop a mobile application model that will cater to individual travelers and drive energy savings in transportation. Under ARPA-E’s Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation program, the Xerox-owned company said Tuesday it will partner with …

CGI has been selected to update Los Angeles City’s supply and financial management systems under a four-year, $19.6 million contract. The legacy systems will be replaced with the latest version of CGI Advantage, the company said Thursday. CGI Advantage is an enterprise resource planning suite that works to help local …

Siemens AG will soon start construction on an e-highway project designed to reduce air pollution in California’s traffic-prone areas. The South Coast Air Quality Management District has approved the test route close to the state’s largest ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Siemens said Wednesday. The company will collaborate …

A Turner Construction project team in Los Angeles set a new Guinness World Record in February for the longest continuous concrete pour. The team poured 82 million pounds of concrete through more than 200 trucks at the Wilshire Grand Center for a period of 18-and-a-half hours, the company announced Wednesday. The 73-story …

A Los Angeles public school district has implemented Microsoft‘s Office 365 cloud computing platform for administrators and faculty members to access, organize and share documents from multiple devices. Microsoft partner SADA Systems worked to help the Los Angeles Unified School District adopt the cloud email system, Microsoft said Thursday. Office …