For the Scottish government, Capita will manage a £325m IT project intended to connect schools, hospitals, pharmacists and local government offices in a single network.
Nicholson, the first Gruber awarded to the Caribbean, will manage a climate change project in the twin-island nation of Antigua & Barbuda that aims to build resilience to climate impacts, with a focus on women's empowerment, and to communicate knowledge of climate adaptation globally.
In June, she is to move to Berlin, where she will manage a research and writing project for Transparency International, a nonprofit organization that seeks to curb corruption in government and business.
At this point, it's unclear if the company will be able to manage a project with the complexity of connecting and opening all its Web services.
Whereas few university-trained postdocs will have managed a project in the accepted business sense, many will have supervised undergraduate or graduate students, high school volunteer students, or technicians.
A state-owned energy company, PGE, will manage the project, which will cost an estimated 40 billion-60 billion zloty ($13 billion-19 billion).The government's adoption of the scheme is the most important step so far in preparations for the construction of the country's first nuclear-power station, says Andrzej Bobinski at Polityka Insight, a think-tank in Warsaw.
"It's like running a small town," says Erin Tassey, a spokeswoman for Lockheed, whose Information Systems and Global Solutions business will manage the project from its offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
We were not notified that this would happen, and it is too late for anybody to complain". "Personally, I am sympathetic to their concerns," said Thomas Safran, a private consultant and volunteer for the Menorah Housing Foundation, the agency that will manage the project.
The Olympic Regional Development Authority, the state-run agency that oversees Olympic venues, will manage the project's financing.
I.B.M. will provide server computers and storage gear and its services unit will manage the project, dubbed TeraGrid.
NASA Goddard will manage the project, which will cost $438 million exclusive of the separately funded government-furnished launch vehicle and telecommunications relay package.
