The Center of Innovative Technology received
a $1.8 million grant from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration to continue its Coastal
Observation program. The award, for the third year
of a five-year project, funds sensor technologies to
monitor real-time influences of the Chesapeake Bay
on costal ecosystems. (Press release)
Fairfield Language Technologies of
Harrisonburg renewed a deal with Berlitz, a provider
of language
instruction services and products, to partner in language
instruction services. Fairfield’s Rosetta Stone learning
program is an interactive online and CD program to
compliment language immersion programs offered by Berlitz
around the world. (PRNewswire)
ManTech International Corp., a Fairfax-based
technology firm, entered into an agreement with Texas
State University-San Marcos for development of a computer
forensics curriculum. ManTech and Texas State will
build applications for research and craft a forensics
curriculum for the computer science department. (Press
release)
The Mennel Milling Co., a Roanoke-based milling
operation, plans to spend $30.8 million to move from
the city of Roanoke to Roanoke County. A biomedical
park is planned for its current location. The move
will retain 33 jobs in the area. Virginia competed
with Ohio and Tennessee for the investment. (Press
release)
MicroNeil Research Corp. of
Sterling entered into a deal with AppRiver LLC of
Gulf Breeze, Fla.,
for joint ownership of MicroNeil’s Message Sniffer
spam detection engine. Under the partnership the firms
will enhance Message Sniffer’s advanced spam recognition
technology and make the product more widely available
for integration with third-party products. (Press
release)
Plateau Systems Inc. of
Arlington was selected to provide the learning management
system for the Defense
Intelligence Agency’s Joint Intelligence Virtual University.
Under the virtual university, DIA employees and civilian
contractors can choose from among 300 courses offered
through distance learning modules, which are taken
online at their work stations through a secure network. (PRNewswire)
The University of Virginia is one of five university
research centers to receive funding to study increasing
transistor density on integrated circuits and related
implications for future development of new semiconductor
technology. The National Science Foundation and the
Nanoelectronics Research Corp., an industry consortium,
provided $2 million to U.Va., Harvard University, the
University of California-Santa Barbara, Columbia University
and Purdue University. (Press release)
Virginia granted CGI-AMS Inc., a global
technology company with offices in Fairfax, a $300
million contract over seven years to redesign, update
business processes in the executive branch. The work
will involve integration of systems in administrative,
financial, human resource and supply chain management
across state agencies. (Press release)
Virginia International Terminals Inc., manager
of the state-owned Hampton Roads port facilities, reached
a 10-year, $500 million deal with its biggest customer
to continue handling freight through Hampton Roads.
The Grand Alliance, a consortium of four large shipping
firms, moves about 250,000 containers through Hampton
Roads annually. The contract is the largest in VIT’s
history. (The Virginian-Pilot)
