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NASA Ames Selects SGI® UV™, the Big Brain Computer, for a Wide Range of Research
5/24/2013 3:05:41 AM
Fremont, CA. — SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA’s Ames Research Center has selected an SGI® UV™ 2000 shared memory system to support more than a ...
Arise Virtual Solutions Participates in White House Ceremony as Part of Its Commitment to the Joining Forces Initiative
5/23/2013 1:40:00 PM
Miramar, FL (May 23, 2013) – Arise Virtual Solutions Inc. , a global virtual contact center and business process outsourcing company, today announced it participated in  the White House ceremony held on April 20,...
PPG Completes Acquisition of Deft, Expands Aerospace Coatings Business
5/22/2013 10:05:45 AM
PITTSBURGH, – PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) announced today that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of certain assets of Deft Incorporated, a privately-owned specialty coatings company ...
Cessna Confident to Capitalize on European Economic Upswing
5/21/2013 11:06:48 AM
Geneva, Switzerland - - Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, said today that despite eurozone economic challenges, the company remains confident of the region’s prospects for b...
NASA and The White House Pay Tribute to Sally Ride
5/21/2013 3:31:03 AM
WASHINGTON -- NASA and President Obama are honoring the life and legacy of Sally Ride on the day a national tribute was held for the first American woman in space. The president announced Monday af...
Call for Media: Inauguration of ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre at ESRIN
5/17/2013 10:27:20 AM
Media representatives are invited to the inauguration of ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre at ESRIN (Frascati, Italy). This is the second centre to be opened under the Agency’s Space Situati...
Parsons Joint Venture Wins USACE Middle East Contract For A-E Services
5/17/2013 10:21:56 AM
PASADENA, CA – Parsons, as the managing partner in a joint venture (JV), was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Middle East District, for general architecture-engineering...
Muskogee Technology Receives Boeing Performance Excellence Award
5/15/2013 3:45:32 PM
Atmore , Alabama - April 23, 2013 – Muskogee Technology announced today that it has received a 2012 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance....
Conflict Minerals: New web broadcasting service and XML search and rollup capabilities for handling the EICC-GeSi template
5/15/2013 9:52:57 AM
San Jose, CA May 15, 2013 – An update has been issued for the MRPRO dashboard that enables secure targeted web broadcasting to consumers of web services. Rollup and search capabilities at the XML level have been added in addition to similar features ...
U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin Deliver Nation’s Newest Secure Communications Satellite for Mobile Users
5/14/2013 10:53:33 AM
SUNNYVALE, Calif., – The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] have delivered the second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) spacecraft to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., where it will be...
SES Techcom to Support Aircraft Tracking from Space
5/14/2013 10:37:59 AM
Proba V demonstration mission successfully launched Luxembourg – SES Techcom, a subsidiary of SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announces the launch of the first ...
Space Station Expedition 35 Astronauts Land Safely in Kazakhstan, Expedition 36 Begins
5/14/2013 1:33:30 AM
WASHINGTON -- Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 35 crew undocked from the orbiting laboratory and returned safely to Earth Monday, May 13, wrapping up a mission lasting almos...
Challenges of Landing "Curiosity" on Mars
5/13/2013 1:33:07 PM
Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Charles Elachi is speaker at upcoming NSF Distinguished Lecture On May 16, the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation will host ...
Boeing Brings B-52 into Digital Age with Significant Communications Upgrade
5/8/2013 10:17:52 AM
-Enables in-flight task changing and weapons retargeting -Greatly improves situational awareness and mission OKLAHOMA CITY, -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] is providing an upgraded communications system fo...
SES-6 Launch Campaign Kicked-Off At Baikonur Cosmodrome
5/8/2013 1:34:27 AM
Satellite to cover the Americas, Europe and Atlantic Ocean Luxembourg – SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announces that the SES-6 satellite has safely arrived at t...
NASA to Mark 40th Anniversary of Skylab and Life Off Earth
5/7/2013 1:38:37 AM
WASHINGTON -- NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America’s first space station Monday, May 13, with a televised roundtable discussion featuring Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and ag...
Family-owned Company in Texas Helps People Survive Doomsday
5/1/2013 2:25:17 PM
Denison, TX, May 1, 2013. All-American Shelters provides disaster-proof bunkers for people to survive the worst catastrophes. The company, understanding the doomsday market, has created a fall out shelter tha...
Success Continues as NASA’s Orion Parachute Tests Get More Difficult
5/1/2013 1:49:33 PM
WASHINGTON -- A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft safely landed during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wednesday. In the test, conducted in Yuma, Ariz., the mock capsule was t...
Quaker Oats Completes Successful Upgrade to CHAMPS CMMS/EAM Version 12.0
5/1/2013 11:31:12 AM
Crystal River, FL - - May 1, 2013 - - CHAMPS Software, Inc., a leading provider of Computerized Maintenance Management (CMMS) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions for over four decades, announces a successful system upgrade for Quaker Oats...
QinetiQ BAC 1-11 Flies into History
5/1/2013 9:59:08 AM
The last remaining BAC 1-11 has flown into history, having been flown by a military air crew from MOD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire to Newquay Museum in Cornwall. QinetiQ, which operates and manages t...