Posts from GovCon Daily for 10/29/2015

AWS’ Max Peterson: Cloud Tech Demand Presents Employment, Economic Opportunities

Max Peterson, general manager for partners, capture and contracts at Amazon Web Services‘ global public sector business, has forecast the cloud computing market will create as many as 14 million new jobs during 2015, BusinessNewsAsia reported Wednesday…

GAO Finds Conflicting VA Mental Healthcare Wait Time Policies; Debra Draper Comments

The Government Accountability Office has uncovered inconsistencies in how the Department of Veterans Affairs handles the schedules of patients seeking mental healthcare, Army Times reported Wednesday. Patricia Kime writes a new GAO report reveals that patients have waited up to nine months from their first request for appointment to receive mental health evaluation…

Battelle-Purdue University Team to Help Evaluate Army’s STEM Programs

The U.S. Defense Department has chosen a Battelle-Purdue University alliance to evaluate and recommend strategies for U.S. Army-run science, technology, engineering and math education programs, The Purdue Exponent reported Wednesday…

Bechtel-Parsons JV Completes Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility

A joint venture of Bechtel National and Parsons Government Services has wrapped up the construction of a facility built to destroy the chemical weapons stockpile at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky…

TCS Patents Public Safety, Mapping, Messaging Services; Maurice Tose Comments

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. has obtained new patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the company’s public safety, mapping, messaging and location-based services. Among the patented systems, the Voice-over Internet Protocol E911 metro street address guide is intended to determine the location of a 911 caller, TCS said Wednesday…

Capstone Turbine, Argonne National Lab Team Up for DOE’s R&D Pilot Program; Jeff Foster Comments

Capstone Turbine and Argonne National Laboratory, a University of Chicago-run engineering and science research facility, have formed a partnership to take part in the Energy Department’s Technologist in Residence pilot program…