DOE funds Advent software in Snezhinsk, Russia

DOE funds Advent software in Snezhinsk, Russia    The U.S. Department of Energy, working with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has approved funding for a project to adopt a management tool developed by Advent Inc., a provider of information technology services for the transportation industry, as part of the Department’s Nuclear Cities Initiative in the Ural mountains of Russia.
   Strela, a company formed as part of the Nuclear Cities Initiative, will partner with Advent to produce a new edition of PRIME, a Web-based system that enables Advent to communicate in real time with clients wherever they may be located.
   PRIME provides a centralized location for business tasks, and will be used to support Strela’s activities in Snezhinsk, one of three formerly closed cities in the Urals where Soviet Russia’s nculear stockpile was developed.
   The Nuclear Cities Initiative has employed a number of scientists who lost their jobs when Russia’s Ministry of Atomic Energy downsized its nuclear weapons program at the end of the Cold War.
   Advent Inc. is based in Murray Hill, N.J.