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Press release: BigLever Software Provides Second Generation Product Line Engineering Capabilities for U.S. Army's Consolidated Product Line Management (CPM) Program
October 25, 2010 -- BigLever Software announced today that the company is providing second generation (2G) product line engineering capabilities as part of General Dynamics C4 Systems-led Team CPM. The five-year, $200 million CPM contract was awarded by the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) to improve the Army's ability to consolidate and efficiently manage the diverse elements of its live combat training system product lines... >> more

Austin Business Journal: BigLever partner in $200M gov contract
October 15, 2010 -- BigLever Software was picked to participate in a $200 million U.S. Army training contract, the first of several large deals in the pipeline, officials said recently. The Austin-based company, bootstrapped about 10 years ago, provides systems and software product line framework, tools and services -- an emerging sector that helps companies more efficiently create, evolve, maintain and deliver product lines. >> more

Dr. Dobbs: Henry Ford Would 'Recoil' at SPL: The role of Software Product Lines
By Jonathan Erickson, Editor-in-Chief
September 24, 2010 -- Charles Krueger is founder of BigLever, a pioneer in software production lines. He recently spoke with Dr. Dobb's editor-in-chief Jonathan Erickson. >> more

SD Times: Organization works to blend application, product life-cycle management
By Katie Serignese, Asst Editor
May 28, 2010 -- As software moves toward equal ground with hardware in industries such as automobiles, aerospace and defense, application life-cycle management (ALM) and product life-cycle management (PLM) are blending as well. >> more

Featured News from the BIgLever IBM Partnership

CNET: IBM partners on 'smart' wind system
By Candice Lombari, CNET Blog Network Author
October 6, 2010 -- IBM announced today it has partnered with Alstom Wind Power and Ikerlan-IK4 to develop an automated platform for better manipulating wind turbines and predicting their output of electricity. Using IBM's existing Rational Software originally intended for model-driven development, and its BigLever Gears, originally intended for product line engineering, Alstom Wind Power and Ikerlan-IK4 have developed an automated wind control development platform. >> more

International Business Times: IBM software now helps in wind energy
by Priyanka Banerjee
October 6, 2010 -- IBM is developing wind control systems for energy suppliers Alstom and IKerlan-IK4, which will help the companies automate systems that control the turbines. Alstom and Ikerlan-IK4 are also using the Gears Software Product Line Lifecycle Framework, from IBM business Partner, BigLever Software, to customize their designs to accommodate the varying climates and geographies where the wind turbines will operate. >> more