The Federal Bureau of Prisons has awarded a five-year contract worth approximately $12 million per year to UMass Medical School (UMMS), the school announced.
On a recent winter day, a construction crew was hard at work in Devens putting a roof atop concrete walls that will soon be four 18,000-square-foot sound stages.
AMSC, the Devens company formerly known as American Superconductor, saw its losses shrink in its third quarter – three months that included a 25-percent reduction of its workforce.
Devens-based AMSC said it will sell high-temperature superconductor (HTS) wire to Nexans, a French provider of cables and cabling systems. Nexans will use the wire as part of a type of surge protector for a project designed to replace high-voltage equipment in inner cities with superconductor systems.
Devens-based AMSC, formerly American Superconductor, said it has received an order for its D-VAR system from a company helping Chinese utility providers improve power quality.
China's highest court will hear a challenge in a lawsuit filed by Devens-based AMSC in its years-long dispute with a Chinese company, according to AMSC.
The federal government has announced a continued-assistance grant of more than $400,000 for more than 300 workers impacted by the 2011 closing of Evergreen Solar in Devens and Marlborough, as well as two of the company' staffing firms.