Jacobs has transitioned to 100 percent renewable energy for company operations during 2020 and achieved net-zero carbon emissions for its operations and business travel. "Reaching our goal to become carbon neutral is a major step in improving the way we run our operations at Jacobs," said Jacobs Chair and CEO Steve Demetriou.
William Eggers and Max Meyers of Deloitte wrote in an FCW article published Thursday that federal agencies can “spin in“ commercial technological capabilities by implementing four investment strategy models used in the venture capital market.
The United Nations Statistics Division has partnered with Esri in an effort to help UN member states implement a data respository for assessing, monitoring and reporting sustainable development goals. Esri said Monday the Federated System for the SDGs is based on the company-built ArcGIS mapping platform and designed to process location intelligence data. Gregg Scott, inter-regional adviser for global geospatial information management […] More
Pentagon Performance Inc. has received a notification of consideration for a potential $50 million contract from the United Nations to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services to the UN’s peacekeeping effort in the Republic of Congo. PPI seeks to deploy its SureCam medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system to help address surveillance and detection requirements of UN MONUSCO operations, the Delaware […] More
A partnership between Sierra Nevada Corp. and the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs aims to launch microgravity payloads from UN member states aboard the company-built Dream Chaser spacecraft by 2021. The U.N. said Tuesday the collaborative effort aims to give developing nations an opportunity to build and deploy payloads into orbit and that all member nations will have the chance to propose payloads […] More
BAE Systems will debut a new infantry fighting vehicle offered in partnership with Patria for the LAND 400 Phase 3 program at the Land Forces 2016 event in Australia. BAE Systems said Tuesday the CV90 family of tracked combat vehicles has supported worldwide UN and NATO operations and provides tactical and strategic mobility, air defense, anti-tank capacity and […] More
Sierra Nevada Corp. has inked a memorandum of agreement with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs to collaborate on the development of space experiment opportunities for U.N. member states. The U.N. said Tuesday UNOOSA and SNC will team up to set up a multicountry space mission opportunity for member states to build and fly payloads for experiments […] More
Delegates at the International Telecommunication Union's 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva have allocated the 1087.7-1092.3 megahertz frequency band to track aircraft worldwide. ITU said Wednesday the agreement over the radiofrequency spectrum allocation is in response to the March 2014 disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. “In reaching this agreement at WRC-15, ITU has responded in […] More
AECOM has been chosen to receive the University of Notre Dame’s Corporate Adaptation Prize in recognition of a disaster preparedness assessment tool developed through an AECOM-IBM partnership. The university evaluated the companies’ Disaster Resilience Scorecard using criteria such as market impact, scalability and measurable adaptation progress, AECOM said Wednesday. Peter Williams, chief technology officer of […] More
SAP AG and the United Nations Population Fund have recently unveiled two interactive population dashboards making use of SAP’s business analytics technologies. The dashboard create greater transparency surrounding core UN population data and trends. “The world’s population reaching 7 billion people presents an excellent opportunity for technology to play an active role in the global commitment for […] More
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