Lockheed Martin has signed a memorandum of agreement with Reignwood Group to build an offshore plant in China intended to generate power through variations in ocean temperature. The 10-megawatt facility will feature Lockheed’s ocean thermal energy conversion technology and supply power to a green resort being developed by Reignwood Group in southern China, Lockheed said [...]
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General Electric has released a new industrial Internet router intended to secure wireless access on private networks owned by companies in industries such as oil and gas. GE’s MCR-4G is an industrial router will use public cellular infrastructures for data collection between disparate sources and operation centers, Manufacturing.net reports. Based on the MDS Orbit platform, [...]
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Joe Kava, Google vice president of data centers, has said the search giant uses 10 governing rules when forming its data center strategies, GigaOM reports. Speaking at the Green Grid Forum in Santa Clara, Calif., Kava said that Google plans to build data centers worldwide to serve different regions. Ucilia Wang writes Google aims to [...]
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Booz Allen Unveils Cyber Data Collection Service; Mike McConnell Comments
February 26, 2013 No Comment
Booz Allen Hamilton has launched a new a cyber threat intelligence service intended to help companies take defensive actions against cyber attacks. Cyber4Sight Threat Intelligence Services aims to collect data from multiple sources while identifying and monitoring a company’s cybersecurity profile, Booz Allen said Monday. “In today’s world, too many organizations wait until a cyber [...]
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Battelle and Midwest utility AEP have developed open source software using code from an Energy Department national laboratory for a smart grid project in Ohio, Greentech Media reports. Jeff St. John writes the organizations are aiming to develop the program for utility planning and forecasting Jason Black, Battelle grid systems research leader, told the website [...]
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SAIC Targeting Commercial Big Data Portfolio for Energy, Health Sectors; John Thomas, Steve Comber Comment
January 25, 2013 1 Comment
Science Applications International Corp. has developed a new portfolio of products and services aimed at helping commercial organizations organize large amounts of data in real-time. SAIC intends for its Critical Insight Solutions portfolio to provide commercial entities similar offerings the company provides to U.S. government customers, the company said. Target customers include organizations in [...]
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QinetiQ Team Developing Tidal Power Platform; Jeremy Smith, Vittorio Vagliani Comment
January 4, 2013 No CommentQinetiq and QED Naval are partnering to develop a new marine platform for deploying and anchoring tidal power plants, QinetiQ said Thursday. StubHub, one of QED’s first products, is designed to retrieve wave and tidal turbines to the surface for maintenance and the companies want to reduce the time of deployment from months to days. [...]
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One year since Unisys implemented a Google cloud computing platform for the U.S. General Services Administration, agency employees have created and shared more than 274,000 documents and created 500 internal websites using the platform. The company said GSA selected Unisys to install Google Apps for Government in 2010 and the agency began using Google’s email [...]
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The General Services Administration is seeking industry information on sustainable building technologies and practices for its Green Proving Ground initiative, the agency announced Friday. Under that initiative, the agency aims to use the federal real estate portfolio as a proving ground for building technology and practices. GSA says it owns and leases 9,600 buildings across [...]
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