IMPROVING ACQUISITION

Army to implement 63 recommendations of Decker- Wagner review

The Army will implement 63 of the recommendations put forth in the final report of an Army acquisition review that was chartered by Secretary of the Army John McHugh.

Since 1996, the Army has spent more than $1 billion a year on programs that ultimately were canceled. Since 2004, that number has been between $3.3 and $3-8 billion a year - anywhere from 35 to 42 percent of the Army's development, testing, and evaluation budget.

Those details and proposed solutions to improve the Army's acquisition community are outlined in a report released July 21 by the Army

The report, Army Strong: Equipped, …

Prince Salman receives Turkish ambassador.

King's Deputy Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa hailed today the outstanding ties linking Turkey with Bahrain and the joint coordination for further cooperation between both countries thanks to the Bahraini and Turkish leaderships, lauding Turkey's …

COLLEGE SEARCHES ARE HER BUSINESS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer

As the first member of her family to attend college, Linda King didn't have much help navigating the complex college search process.

As with all prospective college students, she was immersed in the alphabet soup of the college search: SAT, PSAT, ACT, FAFSA. Eleven years later, King could still remember how daunting the task was, so two years ago she started College Connections -- a consultant business designed to help students and parents figure out how to choose the best college for them.

``It's an ongoing process, but if you start early and you communicate with one another you're going to have less anxiety,'' …

Former head of Johnson Space Center dies in Texas

Aaron Cohen, the former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center who helped create the space shuttle program, has died in College Station after a long fight with cancer. He was 79.

Cohen was named director of the Johnson Space Center in 1986 after the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing teacher Christa McAuliffe and six astronauts. He told the Associated Press then that flying the shuttle safely would depend on "paying attention to detail" and he would encourage those who worked for him to do so.

Cohen was at the helm when shuttle flights resumed nearly three years later and continued to lead the center until 1993. He resigned from NASA to …

FATES & FORTUNES.

BROADCAST TV

John DiCostanza, research analyst, Fox Television Sales, New York. named group research manager.

Alice Lee, senior marketing analyst/research analyst, Los Angeles Newspaper Group, Los Angeles, joins KSCI-TV there as research director.

Jason Kornweiss, master control/commercial integration operator, MSNBC, Secaucus, N.J., joins NBC, New York, as manager, on-air productions.

Jorge Alvarez Hoth, general manager, digital satellite platform, Sky direct-to-home, Mexico City, joins Grupo Televisa there as VP, pay television.

Justin Jones, account executive, Blair TV, Los Angeles, rejoins KJRH(TV) Tulsa, Okla., as national sales manager.

Debra Hastings, marketing director, KVOA(TV) Tucson, Ariz., named local sales manager.

Appointments, KSPR-TV Springfield. Mo.: Gary Whitaker, national sales manager, named general sales manager.

He will be succeeded by Angie Henshaw, account manager.

Rick White, research analyst, Norman Hecht Research, New York, joins WTRV(TV) Indianapolis as research director.

Dan Monroe, VP, operations, Meredith Broadcasting Group, Des Moines, Iowa, joins co-owned WOFL-TV Orlando, Fla., as interim general manager.

Judy Morriston, account executive, WRTV-TV Indianapolis, named …

Refurbished Buzzards Bay, Mass., theater set to reopen as alternative cinema.

Byline: Christie Smythe

Sep. 14--BUZZARDS BAY -- Driveway repaving? Done.

Theater seats and screens? Ordered.

Ice machine? On the way.

And the rest? Coming together.

Just about six months ago, Wareham resident Jeff Avery took over Buzzards Bay's dilapidated former movie theater with dreams of turning it into a bargain-priced specialty cinema.

Now the countdown to the scheduled opening date is on. The Bourne Scallop Festival, held across the street from the theater along the Cape Cod Canal, starts Sept. 22.

Avery hopes to have the theater ready to open on that day.

"Everything is moving along fairly …

US Patent Issued to Smartflash Technologies on May 17 for "Data Storage and Access Systems" (Null, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 20 -- United States Patent no. 7,942,317, issued on May 17, was assigned to Smartflash Technologies Ltd. ( Tortola, UNKNOWN).

"Data Storage and Access Systems" was invented by Patrick Racz (Saint Heller, Jersey) and Hermen-ard Hulst (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data storage and access systems are described for downloading and paying for data such as audio and video data, text, software, games and other types of data. A portable data carrier has an interface for sending and receiving data, non-volatile data memory for storing received content data and non-volatile payment validation memory for providing payment validation data to an external device. The carrier may also store a record of access made to the stored content, and content use rules for controlling access to the stored content. Preferred embodiments store further access control data and supplementary data such as hot links to web sites and/or advertising data. A complementary data access terminal, data supply computer system and data access device are also described. The combination of payment data and stored content data and, in preferred embodiments, use rule data, helps reduce the risk of unauthorized access to data such as compressed music and video data, especially over the Internet."

The patent was filed on Jan. 15, 2008, under Application No. 12/014,558.

For further information please visit: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?

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