Cloud software firm Infor has opened a new office in West Virginia to provide services for federal, state and local agencies, and engage in partnerships supporting the government. The company said Thursday it expects to hire 100 workers in Charleston, Va., for public sector efforts in the areas of software engineering, cloud operations and consulting.
Read More »Leidos to Open Tech Center in West Virginia; Drew Formica Quoted
Leidos plans to consolidate its two facilities in Monongalia County, W. Va., into a new technology center that will be established at Westridge business park, WV News reported Monday. The company is scheduled to open the Agile Center of Excellence within a year and expects to accommodate approximately 250 people there. Drew …
Read More »Battelle Concludes Carbon Dioxide Storage Project at AEP Power Plant
Battelle has completed a 15-year project to store carbon dioxide at American Electric Power‘s coal-fired power plant in West Virginia. The nonprofit research and development organization said Thursday it initiated the carbon capture and storage project at Mountaineer Plant in 2002 with funds from the Energy Department‘s National Energy Technology Laboratory. …
Read More »Orbital ATK Delivers 100,000th Motor for Hellfire Missile; Mike Kahn Comments
Orbital ATK has delivered the 100,000th unit of its tactical motor for the AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles that the U.S. military and 16 allied countries currently use. The company said Wednesday it conducted a ceremony early October in recognition of the delivery numbers and the more than 250 employees and partners who have worked …
Read More »Northrop Secures Navy Triton UAS Long-Lead Material Procurement Funds
Northrop Grumman has received a $49.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide long-lead components, materials, parts and services required to produce the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system. The Defense Department said Monday work will occur in Maryland, West Virginia, Utah, Texas, California and other locations in the continental U.S. through December 2017. The …
Read More »Orbital ATK Unveils New Rocket Motor Manufacturing Facilities in West Virginia
Orbital ATK has unveiled new large tactical motor manufacturing facilities at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in Rocket Center, West Virginia as part of the company’s efforts to fulfill demand for insensitive munitions rocket motors. The company said Wednesday the new facilities will help create a production line for Orbital ATK’s family of propulsion systems that …
Read More »CGI Helps West Virginia, Colorado Implement ERP Systems
The governments of Colorado and West Virginia have adopted a CGI enterprise resource planning system to automate purchasing and accounting processes. CGI said Thursday the new Colorado Operations Resource Engine uses the firm’s Advantage ERP technology and is built to help the state government manage budgeting and procurement functions. The …
Read More »ICF To Help W. Va. Review State Broadband Project
ICF International will help the state of West Virginia review a federal stimulus grant for a statewide broadband project, the Charleston Gazette reports. The project was intended to provide fiber optic cable to public schools, libraries, emergency dispatch centers and health-care facilities. In July 2010, the state purchased Cisco’s 3945 …
Read More »CGI to Implement Planning System for W. Va. Budget, Financial Management, HR
CGI Group Inc. has been awarded an eight-year contract worth $89 million to implement an enterprise resource planning system throughout the state of West Virginia, the company announced today. The company said the system will support statewide budgeting, financial management and human resources operations in an effort to increase access …
Read More »Harris to Integrate Software Solution With 8 TV Stations in 4 Markets of Local State
Harris Corp. announced today it will transition eight West Virginia Media Holdings television stations in four markets to an integrated Harris media software solution by the end of 2011. The solution will provide each market with a business software platform for traffic, billing and advertising sales. WOWK-TV in the Charleston-Huntington market …
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