UTICA — Quanterion Solutions, Inc. formally opened its new headquarters office at 266 Genesee St. in Utica on Oct. 12.

The provider of engineering, software, information-technology and cyber-security services to government and industry celebrated the new 17,000-square-foot office with an afternoon ribbon-cutting ceremony with the Greater Utica Chamber of Commerce.

Quanterion earlier this year moved to the new location, situated across the street from the historic Stanley Theater, from its previous home of 12 years at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Marcy.

Preston MacDiarmid, president of Quanterion, indicated that buying the former bank building allowed the company to customize the space to the firm’s high-tech business needs and facilitate future firm growth, per a chamber news release.

Quanterion’s work includes operating the Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center (CSIAC), which it runs in its Utica office.

The Quanterion website describes CSIAC as a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) “center of excellence” in cyber security, software intensive systems engineering, knowledge management and modeling & simulation.”

Quanterion also operates the DoD’s Defense Threat Reduction Information Analysis Center (DTRIAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

DTRIAC efforts involve “conducting analytical activities, preserving and expanding the knowledge base … and conducting outreach to the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive community on combating weapons of mass destruction topics.”

Quanterion employs 35 people at the new Utica office, 30 staff in Albuquerque, along with others at the Air Force Research Lab in Rome, plus offices in North Carolina, Colorado, and the Washington, D.C. area. 

New York dairy farms produced 1.27 billion pounds of milk in August, up 1.9 percent from the year-ago period, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported.

Production per cow in the state averaged 2,040 pounds in August, up more than 1 percent from 2,015 pounds a year prior.

The number of milk cows on farms in New York state totaled 624,000 head in August, up 4,000 head from August 2016, NASS reported.

The average milk price received by New York dairy farmers in July 2017 was $18 per hundredweight, up 40 cents from June and up $1.20 from July 2016. 

In neighboring Pennsylvania, dairy farms produced 911 million pounds of milk in August, up 2.8 percent from a year earlier.