Email subscriber list increased

Multi-sport retailer, Nytro has announced its latest sweepstakes giveaway allowing customers to register to win two-time Ironman World Champion Chrissie Wellington’s bike. Powered by one-to-one marketing provider ExactTarget, Nytro’s Cannondale bike give-away is the second in 12 months for the California-based retailer, which has already seen its email subscriber list increase by nearly 50 percent from its first campaign. (Greg Moser, Nytro’s web director.)

Smart Financial Credit Union

Smart Financial Credit Union has awarded Data Foundry® with a multi-year disaster recovery services contract. They will utilize one of Data Foundry’s custom built cages to securely house their critical IT infrastructure in the event of a local disaster. Smart Financial Credit Union, will leverage Data Foundry’s Austin Data Center to meet the distance requirement of their Disaster Recovery plan. (Mike Piwetz, Chief Information Officer.)

Founders Bank

Founders Bank has chosen Cypress Software Systems LP’s AppMark software to help the bank launch and automate its consumer lending operations. The hosted loan software is scheduled to go live at the single-branch bank in late-October, and is expected to bring efficiency, underwriting consistency and increased credit risk management to Founders Bank’s budding consumer lending initiative. (Kerry Jarka, senior vice president at Founders Bank.)

Bank of Georgia

Bank of Georgia has selected Softscape for its rollout of a new talent management system. This multi-million dollar, multi-year contract will enable Bank of Georgia to maximize its workforce potential by utilizing a fully automated human resource (HR) system. (Irakli Gilauri, Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Georgia.)

Bank of Hawaii

Bank of Hawaii has implemented its Online Messenger version 3.0 and M-Secure Banking Suite for cash management customer file transfer and information delivery. Online Messenger is a multi-channel event-based information and file delivery platform providing commercial clients with a central access point for all online banking in order to view and execute financial transactions. OBS developed the M-Secure Banking Suite to provide straight-forward and secure file exchange between banks and their commercial customers through any of three delivery channels: Web, M-Secure Desktop Connection or Secure FTP.

The suite’s M-Secure Browser is a hardened Internet browser with integrated two-factor and mutual authentication, and the new M-Secure Virtual Keyboard is designed to mitigate Internet fraud and prevent the harvesting of private information via keyloggers. The new M-Secure File Transfer Service enables banks to transmit and receive data automatically using the Web, OBS Desktop Connection Client or Secure FTP. Additionally, Bank of Hawaii will use M-Secure Browser’s ACH file validation and loading, positive pay issue file input, and extended ACH/EDI reporting service. (Coleen Shoji, Bank of Hawaii’s Senior Vice President of Cash Management Services.)

Grand Coulee Dam’s control system

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected RTI Data Distribution Service for an upgrade of the Grand Coulee Dam’s control system. RTI’s middleware will integrate components of the dam’s next-generation Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, enabling more efficient and reliable hydroelectric power generation. The Grand Coulee Dam is the largest hydropower plant in the United States. The project to retrofit the control system is for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) in cooperation with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydroelectric Design Center (HDC) is the system integrator; HDC selected RTI Data Distribution Service to implement a highly available, high-performance and scalable control system. (Dave Brown, the project manager and system architect for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.)

In-flight entertainment

Lumexis Corporation has selected EMS’ Formation business unit to design and manufacture the optical video/application server for the Lumexis FTTS (Fiber-To-The-Screen) in-flight entertainment (IFE) system. FTTS is planned to be the lightest weight, most reliable, lowest cost VOD In-Flight Entertainment system on the market. (Rich Salter, Lumexis’ chief technical officer.)

United Space Alliance - $1.8 million

LaBarge, Inc has received a $1.8 million contract from United Space Alliance (USA) to produce complex cables and wiring harnesses for the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters, which provide the main propulsion system that launches the shuttle. LaBarge has supplied cables for the shuttle for more than two decades.

Utah’s Department of Transportation

Utah’s Department of Transportation (UDOT) has renewed its contract for Convergys’ On-Demand Speech Self Service solution for 10 additional years.

In July 2000, the Federal Communications Commission assigned the telephone number 511 for nationwide access to traveler information services. Utah was one of the early adopter states in implementing a 511 service for traveler information, and was the first state to deploy a voice-activated 511 system. With increased travel demand, population growth, and wear on the transportation system, UDOT’s 511 system enhances the efficiency of the state’s existing roadways by improving traffic management and safety by providing accurate, real-time traveler information.

Since the initial deployment of the 511 system in Utah, the public has made nearly 2.5 million 511 calls. (Dave Kinnecom, Director of UDOT's Traffic Operations Center.)

Hawaii Air National Guard

Telos^® Corporation will employ its SE7EN Application Development Framework to provide custom development of a multi-touch, multi-user, computing application for the Hawaii Air National Guard (HIANG). The solution will enhance HIANG’s ability to access complex geomapping data and to share it with collaborating agencies. (Col. Joe Garnett, commander of the 201^st Combat Communications Group, Hawaii Air National Guard.)