Local plant won’t get shot at $40B defense deal

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on March 9, 2010 at 9:05 am

The decision by Northrop Grumman not to bid for a $40 billion contract to build Air Force aerial-refueling planes takes away a large opportunity for the local operations of Vought Aircraft Industries.

UPDATE: Vought spokeswoman Lynne Warne e-mailed to clarify that the local plant “will continue building components for the Airbus A330 (the proposed platform for the Northrop Grumman refueling tanker) regardless of this recent development.” Here’s a fact sheet on Vought’s Airbus work in Nashville.

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Retired Air Force general to advise Franklin tech firm

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on February 5, 2010 at 10:22 am

Digital Reasoning Systems, the local company whose intelligence software synthesizes usable information from masses of data, has brought on as a special advisor and advocate Tom Hubbins, a former chief information officer of the U.S. Air Force.

I believe that they will continue to find innovative ways to process, exploit, and disseminate knowledge from unstructured data. Take for example the medical field, consider how humanity could be better served by understanding and sharing the immense amount of unstructured diagnostic data in the search for cures. Researchers would be able to see corollaries and discover facts, which may have previously gone unnoticed.

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Tags: artificial intelligence, Digital Reasoning Systems Inc., software, the military, U.S. Air Force, William 'Tom' Hubbins