Lightweight metals leader Alcoa has entered into a long-term contract with Embraer valued at approximately $470m to supply aluminum sheet and plate for E2s, the second generation of the Brazilian manufacturer's E-Jets family of commercial aircraft.
Following a two-year benchmarking process, Airbus Group is extending its use of Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform to its additive manufacturing programs integrating design, simulation and production.
Exostar, provider of cloud-based software for risk management by highly regulated industries, has developed new capability for the protection and management of digital rights.
The Department of Defense has retained Liquidity Services, Inc. a provider of reverse supply chain services, to manage and sell scrap assets generated by DoD installations throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam. The Company expects to commence operations under the contract on Sept. 1, 2016.
The global military helicopter maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) market is expected to exceed $11.5bn by 2020, growing at a CAGR of over 3 percent, according to market research from Technavio.
IBM's Watson, the computational genius that has bested "Jeopardy" champions, published a cookbook and even been unleashed in the fight against cancer, now has what is perhaps its greatest challenge: taking on the federal procurement morass.