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Gone are the days when the government doled out licences, technology and contracts in an orderly fashion to stop market forces from weeding out the stragglers.
Some have multiple mobile contracts, but technology is clearly widespread.
For instance, the contracts awarded for technology development will have a fixed price with companies having to absorb any cost overruns, despite their lack of visibility as to what changes the government customer might make after proposals are accepted.
"IBM has performed quite well in setting up a pipeline of contracts, " says Technology Business Review analyst Allan Krans.
Daniel Roderick, senior vice president of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Japan's Hitachi, told Bloomberg the company is looking to secure contracts to deliver reactor technology, nuclear services, and nuclear fuel cycle services to Saudi Arabia.
When the EPAs were finally handed out, one green technology captured over half of the sixteen contracts awarded.
Instead, Halfaker leaned on West Point contacts to land several government contracts to bolster her information technology consulting business, which employs six service-disabled veterans.
Nevertheless, it is entirely possible to secure government contracts, particularly in areas of technology innovation, so long as the organizations seeking such grants possess a culture of doing so.
Once established, Sensata signs long-term contracts with its customers and embeds its technology through customization and certification.
In 1999, the City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications entered into a number of franchise contracts for the installation, maintenance and operation of public payphones on City sidewalks.
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It uses what's called Shape Memory Alloy technology, so as each pin expands, it remembers and contracts back to its original flat shape.
This is because technology has made it possible for exchanges elsewhere to develop competing contracts and offer them to customers worldwide, around the clock, with lower costs.
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An even more troubling prospect arises from a bid Hutchison Whampoa and two partners (one an American company called Savi Technology) are making to win U.S. government contracts to enhance security at American ports.
Givon is negotiating contracts with airports worldwide and believes his company's technology may be implemented as soon as 2010.
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The government would sign longer-term contracts with companies hoping to invest in low-carbon technology to give them greater certainty in their investment choices, he told MPs.
BSE, enthusiasm for their new contracts may be dented by the recent travails of information-technology shares around the world.
For at least one of these contracts, the company is reported to be providing a variety of equipment and technology.
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The likelihood that dual-use technology is diverted to nefarious purposes is increased when a company, as is the case with Technip, contracts with state-owned companies.
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