Archive for the ‘technology-telecom’ Category

LAUREL – Verizon Wireless has upped its investment in its 3G network with a new cell site Kent County’s Still Pond.  This will increase data and voice capacity and brings to $274 million the amount spent on regional network improvements.

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COLUMBIA – EventTracker from Prism Microsystems, has earned the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) validation from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  EventTracker automates configuration assessments to help government agencies meet compliance objectives.

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ANNAPOLIS – Networking Technology’s electronic health record modular technology, RxNT eHr v.7, earned additional certification in CCHIT’s Preliminary ARRA IFR Stage 1 program.  It now meets 19 of 24 requirements for certified EHR technology for Eligible Providers published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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LAUREL – With the aim of predicting space weather effects, a collection of organizations have banding together and implemented a space-based system to monitor Earth’s space environment.  The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, The Boeing Company and Iridium Communications have put in place a system that provides real-time magnetic field measurements.

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GREENBELT – NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies to provide the agency’s Langley Research Center with computing support services.  The five-year maximum value of the task order contract is $183 million.

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GREENBELT – ASRC Management Services has a new agreement to provide engineering services to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.  For the contract’s maximum value of $250 million the company will support the agency’s hardware and software systems.

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ANNAPOLIS - After completing a merger with Internet broadband network Safe and Secure TV Channel, LLC, China Entertainment Group took the name Safe and Secure TV Channel and is focusing on its core business.  It offers a multimedia and programming distribution platform that gets content supplied by partners in homeland security and emergency preparedness.  See Google, you can use China and Internet security in the same sentence. 

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ANNAPOLIS – A Performance Status Monitor solution from Zephyr Technology will be used at the Department of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate.  It will tell decision makers the location of first responders and their condition as part of the Physiological Health Assessment Sensor for Emergency Responders program.

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COLUMBIA – BoxTone received $7.5 million in a second round of funding from Lazard Technology Partners.  The cash will help the provider of Mobile Service Management software with product development and corporate expansion.

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NATIONAL HARBOR – Safe Banking Systems and Centrifuge Systems have joined forces to provide banks, financial services firms, government agencies and other organizations with the ability to combat financial crime.   Centrifuge’s link analysis software and SBS’s anti money laundering solutions will detect entities in corporate databases that pose risk.

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