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| 2/26/2008 |
| Texas Firm Launches Cyber Defense Security Center in Omaha |
Texas Firm Launches Cyber Defense Security Center in Omaha
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 26, 2008 -- XIT Networks, LLC, based in Spring, Texas, announced today that Omaha is the site for its Cyber Defense Security Center (CDSC), located at the Scott Technology Center.
“In order to proactively detect and respond to national security threats, the CDSC uses a centralized, multi-layered defense network system. Omaha will serve as the hub for this network, managing and securing communications and information-sharing services throughout the world,” said Steven Bloom, Vice President, Contracts Administration, with XIT Networks. “While much of our impetus in locating in Omaha was to serve the military and defense contractors here, there is ample bandwidth in our network to serve commercial and government entities as well, and we’re excited about extending our advanced security technology and services to them. The CDSC gives client organizations the ability to extend their information networks to voice, video and wireless communications because it protects the privacy and confidentiality of sensitive data.
“Omaha’s ability to attract new and progressive corporations needing advanced networking capabilities made it a logical choice for us. In addition, Omaha offers the best communications and transportation infrastructure, and we’re pleased to partner with experts through the Scott Technology Center,” Bloom noted.
“Omaha has emerged as a center of excellence in cyber security,” noted David G. Brown, President and CEO, Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. “By selecting Omaha, XIT Networks demonstrates our city’s ability to support the important technology and expertise required for 21st century information and communications security.” He added that XIT Networks placement in the community involves a $9 million capital investment and the creation of 20 new jobs within 12 months.
"XIT Networks' investment is an example of the tremendous role and contribution our community makes to national defense. We are proud to have them on board and look forward to their success in our ever growing defense industry," said Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey.
“XIT Networks is an important addition to our Center, and complements our goal of supporting the commercialization of emerging technologies,” said Ken Moreano, Director, Scott Technology Center.
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| 1/31/2008 |
| DOCCENTER Selected to Join Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program |
DOCCENTER Selected to Join Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program
Tuesday January 22, 12:00 pm ET
Global Program Helps Accelerate the Success of Innovative Startups Committed to Microsoft's Platform Technologies
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- DOCenter, Inc. d.b.a. DOCCENTER, an Omaha-based company that helps emerging to midmarket segment businesses efficiently manage and protect their hardcopy and digital assets, today announced that it has been selected to join the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program. Stewarded by the Emerging Business Team (EBT) at Microsoft Corp., the program is designed to connect high-potential startups committed to the Microsoft platform to an extensive support network that provides access to Microsoft people and programs, guidance on future directions, and support to accelerate their success.
"Leveraging both Microsoft technologies and support through such a program is critical to the launch of our flagship product, EDDS Vault, which is a secure, simple, and affordable document delivery and digital asset management SaaS offering," said Todd Fishback, DOCCENTER president.
Microsoft is committed to serving as a valuable technology and business partner for emerging startups and their investors. Companies are selected to join the program based on their innovation, marketability, growth potential, funding, platform decision and strategic importance to Microsoft. These companies receive customized engagement plans designed to support their software development and increase market visibility. The program is now open to interested startups, which can apply via a profiling process outlined at the Microsoft Startup Zone at http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com.
"Microsoft is pleased to be working with DOCCENTER to deliver a comprehensive solution to customers," said Lynda Ting, Emerging Business Team Portfolio Manager at Microsoft Corp. "The combination of DOCCENTER and Microsoft products including .NET Framework, Windows Server, and Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems will provide a solution to meet the needs of our mutual customers that is easy to use, set up and manage."
The Microsoft EBT evaluates hundreds of technology startups each year to identify those with the strongest potential to succeed in the market, shape the industry's future, and enhance the overall value of Microsoft products and services for customers. The Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program shines the spotlight on some of the most promising startups and provides good examples of how startups can work successfully with Microsoft.
DOCenter, Inc.
Founded in 2000, DOCenter Inc. is an electric content management company based in Omaha, Neb. Also known in the industry as DOCCENTER, the company helps emerging to midmarket-segment businesses efficiently manage and protect their hardcopy and digital assets. The company has strategic alliances with Microsoft, Deltek, CoSentry and Dell. For more information, visit http://www.doccenterinc.com or http://www.eddsvault.com.
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| 10/9/2007 |
| KUKA Robotics Announces Regional Metal Fabrication Symposiums |
KUKA Robotics Announces Regional Metal Fabrication Symposiums
KUKA Robotics Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of industrial rob, today announced it will be hosting regional Metal Fabrication Symposiums in Appleton, WI and Omaha, NE, October 23rd and 30th respectively. The symposiums, which will feature technical presentations, live demonstrations and industry networking, were created to educate and showcase the latest methods and techniques to improve metal fabricators bottom line and quality. The Wisconsin event will take place at the Fox Valley Technical College October 23rd from 8:00am to 4pm. The Nebraska event will take place at the Scott Technology Center October 30th from 8:00am to 4pm.
?We know that metal fabricators are increasingly turning to automation in order to streamline production and reduce costs and downtime in a growingly competitive international market,? said Stuart Shepherd, president of KUKA Robotics Corporation. Attendees to these events will take away the latest information from leading industry experts that they need to help them improve profitability and remain competitive.
In addition to KUKA executive presentations and live demonstrations, the Metal Fabrication Symposiums will feature guest speakers from Pilz, Fox Valley Technical College, AWS, Servo Robot and Friction Stir Link. For more information on the events contact KUKA Robotics at kukainfo@kukarobotics.com.
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| 8/30/2007 |
| Former financiers bet on sports site |
NOBODY'S BUSINESS
Former financiers bet on sports site
PATRICIA BEST
August 30, 2007
Who needs finance when you've got wiki-fun. Two former senior TD Ameritrade chaps have launched a social networking sports site called crowdpicks.com.
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| 9/15/2006 |
| USSTRATCOM Global Innovation and Strategy Center opens doors Sept. 15 |
September 18, 2006
Release No. 06-0902
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
USSTRATCOM Global Innovation and Strategy Center opens doors Sept. 15
By SSgt. Alicia Prakash
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. – U.S. Strategic Command officials and Nebraska community leaders cut the ceremonial red ribbon to the Global Innovation and Strategy Center's new facility Sept. 15.
"I think it's appropriate that a community, with this kind of history, is now home to an organization dedicated to shaping STRATCOM's future," said Walter Scott of the Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation.
Co-located on the University of Nebraska at Omaha south campus with the Scott Technology Center, the 43,400 square foot GISC facility provides access to Omaha's unique fiber-optic capabilities, robust secure interior and exterior construction, and proximity to the Peter Kiewit Institute -- a National Security Agency designated Center of Excellence.
"We have all this information that we capture in a variety of ways in various agencies," said Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman. "We need a way in the future to share information across agencies, across jurisdictions in a meaningful and timely manner."
The GISC's new location in the community and its expanded mission will help USSTRATCOM provide non-traditional solutions to challenges by linking flexible networks of experts from sectors of the private community together with government agencies. According to Kevin Williams, GISC director, the concept for the GISC is "straight forward."
• Establishing a lean, agile, responsive and highly collaborative organization focused on discovering what the tough challenges are;
• Forming teams of leading experts and creative people to address those challenges; and
• Transitioning information into solutions for the customer.
"This is a very different world we live in," said Gen. James Cartwright, USSTRATCOM commander. "It demands different solutions. That is the nexus [which] brings us to Omaha."
The expanded GISC mission is to provide collaboration between Department of Defense and the private sector serving as a bridge between traditional and non-traditional sources of information. The GISC will link experts, tools, databases, relationships and other resources together to produce integrated, broad-based solutions.
"Diversity is our strength," said Cartwright. "Reaching out to all these different communities is what is critical to be able to come up with solutions that will outwit any perceived adversary we may have. "We have got to have 21st Century solutions for 21st century problems."
For more information, call USSTRATCOM Public Affairs at (402) 294-4130 or visit www.stratcom.mil.
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| 8/29/2006 |
| 21st Century Systems, Inc. ® inducted into the Inc. 500 |
21st Century Systems, Inc. ® inducted into the Inc. 500
Herndon, Virginia. October 19, 2005. Inc. magazine names the 500 fastest-growing privately owned companies each year. The Inc. 500 list is a kind of “crystal ball” – these unfamiliar names will be well known in the near future.
Ranked at 448 with a three year growth rate of 319%, 21st Century Systems, Inc.® (http://www.21CSI.com) has been selected as one of these Inc. 500 Elite companies for 2005. In the announcement, Inc. 500 offers the following report on 21CSI:
21CSI develops software to help military decision makers, such as submarine captains, predict the moves of their adversaries. The product hit the market in 2000 and has been picked up by the Marines and Army in addition to the Navy. CEO Alexander Stoyen foresees "vast commercial applications" especially in emergency rooms and corporate strategy.
“All of us at 21CSI® are truly honored by the recognition that comes with the prestigious Inc. 500 designation! We owe our rapid growth and success to the trust put into our products by the brave men and women who protect our democracy, safety and security and who defend our freedom every day: as members of our military forces, homeland security forces, law enforcement personnel and civil defense personnel,” stated 21CSI®’s Founder and CEO, Dr. Alexander D. Stoyen. “Rest assured; we will not rest on our laurels but will work even harder than before!”
21st Century Systems, Inc.® (21CSI®) is a pioneer in designing, developing and fielding agent-based decision support systems for time- and mission-critical military and commercial applications. Woman-owned, founded in 1996, 21CSI® has over 30 applications across a broad spectrum of missions, including space-to-mud-to-ocean-bottom decision support systems developed for all DoD branches. Our applications operate in all types of environments and are OS independent. By providing human decision makers with a real time integrated, common tactical picture – where needed, when needed and in the form needed – our revolutionary decision support systems substantially improves situational awareness, reduces stress and increases productivity. 21CSI is a Department of Defense Small Business Innovative Research Success Story with a 100% SBIR Commercialization Achievement Index.
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| 6/8/2006 |
| Pinpoint Network Services Expands in Omaha Market |
Pinpoint Network Services Expands in Omaha Market
For Immediate Release
Omaha, Nebraska - Today, Pinpoint Network Services announced the expansion of their Omaha offices located at The Scott Technology Center.
The expanded facility will house a data center and will offer Tier 1 Dedicated Internet Access, carrier neutral collocation, disaster recovery services with on and off site redundant storage located 230 miles away in Cambridge. The data center will be served by Pinpoint’s new SONET/IP integrated network along their 29 mile Omaha metro and 425 mile long haul network across Nebraska. The new network will offer businesses the opportunity to take advantage of Pinpoint Network Services state of the art network with redundancy provided by a Level (3) connection at both Pinpoint Network Services Omaha and Cambridge facilities.
The facility will also be “on-net” with multiple service providers located at 1623 Farnam carrier hotel in Omaha.
Of the new facility, Pinpoint Network Services President Alec Geist said, “Our new facility located at the Scott Technology Center will allow us to provide state wide connectivity and data storage with disaster recovery”
About Pinpoint Network Services
Pinpoint Network Services is a Nebraska based communications company. Pinpoint Network Services provides a widespread set of services over its broadband fiber optic network including dedicated Internet access services, broadband transport and infrastructure services, collocation services, voice services and voice over IP services.
Media Contact: Mike O’Dell
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| 4/21/2006 |
| KUKA ROBOTICS COMMITS TO NEW TECHNICAL FACILITY AT SCOTT TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER & INCUBATOR CENTER |
For Immediate Release
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Kevin Kozuszek
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KUKA ROBOTICS COMMITS TO NEW TECHNICAL FACILITY AT SCOTT TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER & INCUBATOR CENTER
New Facility to Provide Showroom Testing and Validation of Robotic Concepts
Clinton Township, Michigan — April 20, 2006 – KUKA Robotics Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of industrial robots, today announced it has signed a lease at the Scott Technology Transfer & Incubator Center in Omaha Nebraska with plans to open a new technical facility. The facility will serve as a new showroom testing and validation center for robotic concepts. Scheduled for a fall opening, the new center further demonstrates KUKA Robotics’ commitment to develop new robotic technologies in the United States.
"The Scott Technology Center is an excellent fit for KUKA Robotics as both share the vision of excellence in the creation and development of tools for emerging technologies," said Kevin Kozuszek, director of marketing for KUKA Robotics Corporation. "Additionally we are very pleased to be able to further expand the availability of KUKA automation technology with the development of this new facility."
The Scott Technology Center is an outgrowth of The Peter Kiewit Institute and provides facilities and infrastructure for large and small organizations directly partnered with The Peter Kiewit Institute. The Technology complex currently totals 220,000 square feet of engineering and technology related facilities. Opening late 2001, the Technology Center includes a technology and business incubator having graduated 5 companies and currently housing approximately 4 start-up companies with the majority of the complex comprised of larger, more established technology transfer organizations. For more information on the Scott Technology Center, visit www.scott-technology.com
KUKA Robotics Corporation, with its parent company KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, Germany, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of industrial robots, with an annual production volume approaching 10,000 units, and an installed base of over 60,000 units. The company’s 5 and 6 axis robots range from 3kg to 570kg payloads, and 635mm to 3700mm reach, all controlled from a common PC based controller platform. KUKA robots are utilized in a diverse range of industries including the appliance, automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, logistics, food, pharmaceutical, medical, foundry and plastics industries. KUKA robots are found in a multitude of applications including: material handling, machine loading, assembly, packaging, palletizing, welding, bending, joining, and surface finishing. For more information contact KUKA Robotics at 866-873-5852 or visit their website at www.kukarobotics.com.
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| 2/12/2006 |
| Scott Technology Center Blends Businesses, School |
Scott center blends businesses, school
BY VIRGIL LARSON
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
OGM Laboratory LCC would be a good poster child for the Scott Technology Transfer and Incubator Center.
It's got some sizzle from being a creation, of sorts, of Germany's Fraunhofer Institutes, which developed the MP3 technology. OGM has access to Fraunhofer's high-tech creations that can be applied to U.S. businesses.
Another potential poster child with Fraunhofer connections is on the way. Its name alone gives it some sizzle: Kuka Robotics.
The Scott Center houses other companies with sizzle. One of them is 21st Century Systems, which developed battle-planning software it sells to the Pentagon.
And the center has long-established companies with long-standing credentials, like SAIC (Science Applications International Corp.), a major defense contractor that has worked at Offutt Air Force Base for 40 years.
The mix of startups and veterans is intentional. It fits with the center's aim to be a place where technology firms and the faculty and students at the University of Nebraska's nearby Kiewit Institute feed off each other in developing technology applications.
Opened in 2002, the center has graduated four firms from its incubator. It has seven startups now with four applicants under consideration.
Two of the incubator graduates didn't move far. They went down the hall to the technology transfer side of the center, where companies work on business applications of research findings. There are 10 companies, such as 21st Century Systems and SAIC, that are technology transfer "partners" now, a number that Kenneth Moreano, the director, expects will grow to 25 resident companies this year.
By the end of 2006, Moreano said, the high-tech companies in what will soon be a 200,000- square-foot set of Scott Center buildings are expected to have 350 employees. Construction is nearly finished on the third phase of the center, which is on the Ak-Sar-Ben campus southeast of 72nd and Pacific Streets.
When OGM was introduced as a Scott Center incubator company in 2004, Fraunhofer played a video, a virtual reality display that showed layers of soft tissue and skin being laid on a skeleton to create a full dinosaur.
That sort of sizzle comes from a Fraunhofer computer science and graphics center in Darmstadt, Germany, which has "deep resources" in technologies used in visualizations and displays of virtual reality, said James Kelley, OGM's chief executive officer.
It's the sort of technology that is valuable to the University of Nebraska Medical Center, which has a laboratory at the Scott Center, Kelley said, but it is only one of the technologies that OGM can draw on from Fraunhofer.
"Fraunhofer is the world's premier early-stage prototype development organization," he said. "No one touches them."
OGM's foot-in-the-door approach to winning new customers is its systems modernization technology. It can probe a decades-old computer system and determine what code was originally buried in it and what has been added over the years.
"We can actually go into the systems and re-create the specifications that you would need to build the system today," he said, and then can go on to add off-the-shelf products or whatever the customer wants.
Like other companies in the center or that have ties to it, OGM gives back to the Scott Center and the Kiewit Institute. As with other companies at the center, OGM staff members, including Kelley, teach university classes at the Kiewit Institute.
Kuka Robotics is late in arriving but when it gets to the Scott Center it will bring cutting-edge robotics technology, Moreano said. Kuka's addition to the center was announced almost two years ago, but details of the partnership agreement took time to nail down.
Kuka's research at the Scott Center will focus on developing robots for use in aerospace and medical fields, Moreano said, the latter tying into UNMC's research at the center.
Incubator companies are heavily subsidized by the Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation. Rents are low, and startups get the benefits of shared office services. Other services, such as marketing, often can be obtained at reduced rates from other companies in the center.
The Scott Center asks a startup for a "small equity position" in the firm in the form of warrants or options, Moreano said. The money goes to help other firms get started.
"There's a little bit of skin in the game on their side," he said.
Most of the incubator firms have from two to five employees at the start, Moreano said, and are expected to be self-sustaining - "standing on their own two feet" - in three years.
Companies that have become self-sufficient but stay in the center as partners or established ones, like SAIC, that move in as partners are not subsidized. They pay market rates for rent, for example.
Partners both give and take benefits from being in the center. Like incubator companies, they have access to the expertise of faculty and students at the Kiewit Institute. In turn, the companies hire students, giving them and faculty members access to the businesses' expertise and work experience.
The benefits flow both ways, Moreano said. "The advantage is mostly the intangible."
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| 12/7/2005 |
| Computer Company with Nebraska Ties has New Omaha Office |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: December 6, 2005
Time: 3:30 p.m. Program
4-7 p.m. Open House
Location: Scott Technology Center
6825 Pine Street
Omaha, NE
Computer Company with Nebraska Ties has New Omaha Office
DECEMBER 5, 2005 (OMAHA, NE) - Sterling Computers officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding on October 20, 2005, with The Peter Kiewit Institute and the Scott Technology Center. The company will reside in the Scott Technology Center (STC), 6825 Pine Street and will interface with area businesses as well as The Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI).
Sterling Computers is a comprehensive information technology firm that focuses on designing and managing customer technology, networks and supporting end-users in highly complex environments. According to the publication, Washington Technology, Sterling is the “19th largest 8(a) SBA Certified company in the country”. They have also received such prestigious awards as: Northrop Grumman Corporation's Supplier of Excellence, 2005; Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Supplier of Excellence, 2005; and Ingram Micro Federal Reseller of the year, 2004. Sterling Computers is one of two companies in existence that combines SBA 8(a) Certification, Sun Storage Elite Certification, Sun Data Center Certification, Sun Cluster Certification, Cisco Premier Partner, Force10 Networks Gold Partner, and Microsoft Certified Partner status.
Sterling Computers was founded in 1996 by Maggi and Troy Jones in Lomita, California. Since its inception with three employees, Sterling relocated to Norfolk, Nebraska with 15 employees in 2004 and now has 63 total employees. Sterling will be significantly expanding its Nebraska presence over the next several years. According to Ken Moreano, Director of the Scott Technology Center, “The addition of this partnership with Sterling Computers will certainly provide a new level of technological expertise to our community and state.”
The intentions of Sterling Computers are twofold: first, Sterling will be working as a business partner and interacting with large corporations and budding entrepreneurs. The second component to the relationship is the connection with higher education. The University of Nebraska’s Peter Kiewit Institute of Information Science Technology & Engineering provides and encourages student relationships and educational opportunities with business partners. “Sterling has offered to work with students on research projects, allow them access to their labs, provide an expert in-residence to PKI, and provide internships for PKI students,” said Winnie Callahan, Executive Director of PKI. “The close physical proximity to students and faculty enhance current opportunities and foster new ones”.
According to Jeff Moore, Vice President of Development of Sterling Computers, “Our growth is directly related to the talented people in Nebraska. We are thrilled to be able to give back via our commitment at PKI. Having the opportunity to engage with one of the premier IT and Engineering academic institutions in the nation will be instrumental to our future success. The move into STC allows us to interact with leading edge companies and further enhances our ability to solve complex IT problems for our commercial and government customers.”
It is expected in addition to representatives from PKI and Scott Technology Center, Sterling owners Maggi and Troy Jones from Lomita, California, Omaha Chamber officials and representatives from Offut Airforce Base and USSTRATCOM will join other business leaders in officially kicking of the new partnership.
For more information contact: Winnie Callahan, Executive Director, PKI 402-554-3333
Ken Moreano, Director, Scott Technology Center 402-502-6000
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