STERLING HEIGHTS - The U.S. Army TACOM Contracting Command recently awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, a $28 million contract for research, development and testing in preparation for the Stryker Engineering Change Proposal upgrade program. The Stryker ECP upgrade program is an engineering-development effort focused on integrating a group of
DETROIT - Comerica Bank?s Michigan Economic Activity Index grew in September, up 4.2 percentage points to a level of 129.4. September's reading is 57 points, or 79 percent, above the index cyclical low of 72.1. The index averaged 114 for all of 2012, 11 points above the index average for 2011. August's index reading was
SOUTHFIELD - For the third consecutive year, ImageSoft has been chosen by the National Association for Business Resources as one of the 2103 National Best and Brightest Companies to Work For. The winning companies were assessed by an independent research firm, which reviewed a number of key measures relative to other nationally recognized winners. They
WASHINGTON DC - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and the University of Notre Dame are working with Internet2 and Rackspace Hosting to build an OpenStack-based hybrid cloud environment for the research and education community. The new Internet2 NET+ services are expected to be available to other
BATTLE CREEK - The Corn Marketing Program of Michigan, Michigan Soybean Promotion Committee and Michigan Wheat Program are collaborating on a new event for crop farmers in the Great Lakes Region, called the Great Lakes Crop Summit, scheduled for Jan. 22-24, 2014, at FireKeepers Hotel and Casino. The inaugural summit for crop farmers will feature
PETOSKEY - Verizon Wireless' Petoskey store is one of 100 in the nation and the second Smart Store in Michigan to open this year. The company unveiled its first ?Destination Store? Tuesday at The Mall of America in Minnesota. The initiative, combined with the redesign of 1,700 company-owned retail stores during the next few years
TROY - Association for Corporate Growth Detroit Chapter will host its eighth annual Mingle Bells fund raiser Dec. 3 at the Troy Marriott Hotel. This holiday event that has raised more than $23,000 for non profits in Metro Detroit. The recipient of this year's Mingle Bells fund raising will be Common Ground (www. commongroundhelps.org), an
DETROIT - Compuware Corp. added two new board members Thursday. Joining the board were Jeffrey J. Clarke, managing partner at Augusta Columbia Capital Inc., a New York City-based tech-focused private equity firm, and Jennifer J. Raab, president of Hunter College, the largest college in the City University of New York system. Leaving the board are
LANSING - Liquid Web has launched a product unique to its own cloud hosting, Storm Platform, called Storm Private Cloud, which allows users to purchase a server and, rather than deploying a single large instance, split it into multiple virtual instances, thereby creating a cloud environment of their own. Liquid Web claims the development was
MATTAWAN ? William Parfet, MPI Research Chairman and CEO, has been inducted into the Financial Executives International Hall of Fame. Parfet founded MPI Research in 1995 and, under his leadership, the company has become one of the top CROs in the world. He has also held executive positions at Richard-Allan Medical and The Upjohn Company