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  • Orbital ATK Awards $135K Undergraduate Scholarships to 70 Students; David Thompson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Awards $135K Undergraduate Scholarships to 70 Students; David Thompson Comments

    Orbital ATK has awarded a combined $135,000 in scholarships to help the children of the aerospace company’s employees pursue their post-secondary education for this coming academic year. The company said Wednesday Scholarship Management Services selected 70 scholarship recipients based on their test scores, grade average, class ranking, work experience, career objectives and involvement in community and school […] More

  • John Lee: Carahsoft Earns IES Sales Excellence Award for Cloud Partner Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Lee: Carahsoft Earns IES Sales Excellence Award for Cloud Partner Program

    Carahsoft has won an Institute for Excellence in Sales award for the company’s program that allows cloud service providers to offer VMware-based technology to government customers. IES picked Carahsoft’s VMware vCloud Air Network Program to receive the 2015 IES Sales Award in the alliance management category, Carahsoft said Tuesday. “This program provides value and support […] More

  • Bart Thielbar to Lead Capgemini's North American Utilities Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bart Thielbar to Lead Capgemini’s North American Utilities Practice

    Bart Thielbar, formerly chief operating officer of TMG Consulting, has joined Capgemini as vice president and utilities practice lead at the company’s North American subsidiary. Capgemini said Tuesday that Thielbar comes into the role with more than 25 years of business operations management experience and will report directly to Rob McKay, Capgemini North America senior […] More

  • Executive Profile: Guy Montminy, Finance SVP for BAE Systems Inc - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Guy Montminy, Finance SVP for BAE Systems Inc

    Guy Montminy serves as senior vice president of finance at BAE Systems Inc. — the British defense contractor’s U.S. subsidiary. He oversees financial management operations of U.S.-based enterprises under the BAE Systems plc portfolio. Prior to this role, he spent four years as vice president of finance for the subsidiary’s electronic systems sector and was responsible for […] More

  • Executive Profile: Doug Lane, Capgemini Government Solutions CEO, President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Doug Lane, Capgemini Government Solutions CEO, President

    Doug Lane is CEO and president of Capgemini Government Solutions. He brings more than three decades of experience in information technology, practice leadership and management consulting to the subsidiary of Capgemini North America. Lane previously worked as a partner at A. T. Kearney for nearly two years before joining Capgemini. He spent three years as a […] More

  • Executive Profile: Rick Lober, Hughes VP & GM of Defense, Intelligence Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Rick Lober, Hughes VP & GM of Defense, Intelligence Systems

    Rick Lober serves as vice president and general manager of Hughes Network Systems‘ defense and intelligence systems division, an organization that delivers satellite communication technologies and services to defense and intelligence agencies. In this capacity, he manages a portfolio of fixed Ku, Ka and X band very small aperture terminals as well as mobilesat and […] More

  • Executive Profile: Jill Bruning, EVP & GM of Intelligence Community Business at AECOM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Jill Bruning, EVP & GM of Intelligence Community Business at AECOM

    Jill Bruning is an executive vice president at AECOM and general manager of the company’s Intelligence Community business unit, which was formed following the acquisition of URS in 2014. She joined AECOM from URS and worked on the integrated IC unit’s transition phases, organizational strategy and business architecture. She is also a member of AECOM’s […] More

  • L-3 Receives Cogswell Awards for Security Practices; Vincent Jarvie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Receives Cogswell Awards for Security Practices; Vincent Jarvie Comments

    L-3 Communications has received three James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Awards for security practices being implemented at the company’s facilities. The Defense Security Service selected L-3’s Greenville, Texas-based mission integration division, Middletown, Rhode Island-based Unidyne facility and the Camden, New Jersey-based Systems Company operation as among the 41 recipients of the award, L-3 said […] More

  • SBA Picks Orbital ATK for Tibbetts Small Business Research Award; Mike Kahn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SBA Picks Orbital ATK for Tibbetts Small Business Research Award; Mike Kahn Comments

    Orbital ATK has received a Tibbetts Small Business Innovative Research Award from the Small Business Administration in recognition of the company’s work on an air-to-surface tactical missile platform. “The [Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile] program is an excellent example of how partnering between industry, the U.S. Navy and SBA can leverage the innovation and technology generated by small […] More

  • James Blake Joins Cubic as Integrated Training Solutions Lead; Bill Toti Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    James Blake Joins Cubic as Integrated Training Solutions Lead; Bill Toti Comments

    Dr. James Blake, formerly program executive officer for simulation, training and instrumentation at the U.S. Army, has been named vice president and deputy general manager of integrated training solutions at Cubic‘s global defense business. He brings experience in technology research, development, procurement, modeling and simulation to his new position, Bill Toti, Cubic Global Defense president, […] More

  • Boeing's Jim McNerney Picked for Magazine's 'CEO of the Year' Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Jim McNerney Picked for Magazine’s ‘CEO of the Year’ Award

    Jim McNerney, chairman and former CEO of Boeing, has been selected by Chief Executive magazine to receive the publication’s 2015 CEO of the Year award. Chief Executive Group said Thursday that McNerney’s leadership role at Boeing helped the company generate an annual average shareholder return of 25.2 percent and a compound annual growth rate of […] More