Lockheed to Continue UK Cloud Storage, Software Services
Lockheed Martin U.K. has won a 12-month contract to continue providing cloud computing infrastructure and software to the British government, the company announced Monday. Under the new G-Cloud IT 2 framework, the company will provide the government tools for computing and storage, e-mail and collaboration, cloud strategy, integration and security. The framework also covers green [...]
Lockheed Martin will consolidate the Labor Department‘s data centers and move them to a secure data center, then ultimately move them to a cloud computing environment. The company said it won a potential seven-year, $59.4 million contract to help DOL fulfill its part in the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (click here to read ExecutiveGov’s [...]
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Customs and Border Protection agency is looking for a company that can melt or shred the agency’s extra or outdated electronic gadgets, Nextgov’s Allya Sternstein reports. According to a May 8 solicitation, CBP said it is considering using a vendor who can recycle metal and plastic waste. Hard drives or any other technology component with [...]
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Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received a 2011 Green Enterprise IT Award for green innovation at the company’s new 140,000 square-foot Cyber Integration Center in the U.S. The awards, presented by the Uptime Institute, recognized Harris and its design/build contractor, Lee Technologies, in the “Audacious Idea” category for a unique, multizone water containment system [...]
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Fueled by venture-capital investment in industries like communications, IT and green technology, Israel’s high-tech industry has in recent years become a worldwide leader, and more U.S. companies are eyeing the Middle Eastern nation for prospective investments. Israel’s technology sector, which has been expanding at a 10-20 percent clip since 2003, has played an important part [...]
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Juniper Networks has published its first annual Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Report, highlighting the company’s efforts in green IT, employee and community engagement and sustainable business operations across the world. The “The New Network — Changing the World” report details how Juniper has been successful in its efforts to adopt environmentally friendly information technology. Since [...]
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Itron, inc., is testing its smart-grid technology with the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to make sure revolutionary IT applications to critical infrastructure don’t create new vulnerabilities. Fear not, says Itron, the nation’s leading producer of smart meters, these tests are part of an across-the-board effort undertaken by government and private industry to make the smart grid’s seals against infiltration [...]
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