$19.3 million order from U.S. Customs and Border Protection

American Science and Engineering, Inc. has won a $19.3 million order from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for multiple Z Backscatter^™ Vans (ZBV^™). The ZBV allows for immediate deployment in response to security threats and its high throughput capability facilitates rapid inspection. The system’s “drive-by” capability allows operators to conduct X-ray imaging while the ZBV drives past suspect vehicles and objects. For personnel safety in dangerous environments, a remote console is available for operating the system in stationary mode from a distance of up to 500 meters.

U.S. Lumber 3,623% RoI

Nucleus Research analysts examined the deployment of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence at U.S. Lumber and found a 3,623% return on investment (ROI) with payback in only eleven days. U.S. Lumber is a $325 million distributor of specialty and wholesale building materials. The company has approximately 6,000 customers and eight distribution facilities.

Translation for company with 750,000 representatives

Nu Skin has chosen Lingotek to help centralize and streamline its ability to bring localized materials to its multiple markets in the Americas, Europe and South Pacific. Under the agreement, which includes Lingotek’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaborative translation platform and the use of Lingotek translators, as needed, Nu Skin expects to increase translator productivity to enable them to translate a greater number of documents more quickly and accurately—and at a lower cost. Nu Skin has more than 750,000 independent representatives selling personal care products and nutritional supplements in 48 global markets, representing 35 languages. (Greg Darlington, vice president of marketing and operations for Nu Skin’s Americas, Europe and South Pacific region.)

Predictive Bus Arrival / Departure System

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. has been selected by San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans) to install a Predictive Bus Arrival / Departure System (PADS) system to provide real-time bus arrival/departure information to their customers via the Web, telephone systems, and on dynamic message signs at major SamTrans terminals. (Robert Tam, manager of Technology and Research and Development at San Mateo County Transit District.) San Mateo County Transit District was formed in 1976 and provides public transportation services to the cities within San Mateo County, California, a 446-square-mile area with a population of approximately 737,100. Currently, the District operates approximately 339 fixed-route revenue buses, 76 paratransit vehicles, and 48 shuttle buses.

U.S. Bank spends on Systematic Tracking of Collateral

U.S. Bank has selected Rockall’s Systematic Tracking of Collateral (STOC) solution. STOC will be used for enterprise-wide monitoring and evaluation of marketable securities that collateralize credit facilities and commitments made by several business lines within U.S. Bank, including The Private Client Reserve in the Wealth Management Group, National Corporate Banking Broker Dealer division, and The Private Client Group. (Mark Jordahl, president of the U.S. Bank Wealth Management Group.) U.S. Bank, the 6th largest commercial bank in the United States, operates 2,850 banking offices and 5,173 ATMs in 24 states, and provides a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses and institutions.

Dot Foods technology agreement

Dot Foods, the largest food redistributor in the United States, has entered into a technology agreement with 1SYNC – the GS1 US data pool – and Aligntrac Solutions following a recently completed pilot. Aligntrac and 1SYNC provide leading solutions for GS1 standards in data exchange among businesses, enabling them to upgrade the accuracy and availability of product information throughout the supply chain. (Dick Tracy, VP of Customer Development, Dot Foods.) Dot Foods Inc. carries 83,000 products from 500 food industry manufacturers and is the largest food redistributor in the United States. Dot Foods and Dot Transportation sell and deliver foodservice, convenience, retail, vending, equipment and supplies to leading distributors in all 50 states.

$20 million outsource by City of Santa Clara

Unisys has signed a contract to provide information technology (IT) and application outsourcing services to the City of Santa Clara. The five-year contract has an estimated value of approximately $20 million. The Unisys services will support 15 city departments, administrative offices and utilities, helping more than 1,000 end users serve the city’s 117,000 residents more effectively. (Gaurav Garg, director of information technology, City of Santa Clara.)

$13.5 million at U.S. Defense Supply Center

OSI Systems’ Healthcare Division, Spacelabs Healthcare, has been awarded a $13.5 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Defense Supply Center Philadelphia Medical Supplier Operations Directorate to provide patient monitoring systems, sub-systems, training and consumables.

$98.8 million DHS contract

ManTech has been awarded an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide a full range of program management support services to the nation's Secure Border Initiative (SBI). The competitively awarded, single-award IDIQ program has a base-year and two option years and a total potential value of $98.8 million.

$7 million for development

Intevac Photonics has received an award from the U.S. Government in the amount of $7 million for the development of a four mega-pixel, low light level sensor and camera.

National Motor Carrier Pre-Employment Screening System

The U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), has awarded NIC Technologies, LLC, the contract for a National Motor Carrier Pre-Employment Screening System. The new service is designed to disseminate commercial drivers’ safety performance history as part of the pre-employment screening process.

United Rentals purchase

United Rentals has purchased WhereScape RED to ensure that the structure of its data continues to meet the evolving needs of its business and markets. (Dan Mosher, Director of Enterprise Data Warehousing for United Rentals.)

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.