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  • Executive Profile: Drew Morin, SVP and CTO of TeleCommunication Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Drew Morin, SVP and CTO of TeleCommunication Systems

    Drew Morin serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer at TeleCommunication Systems, where he directs and coordinates the company’s development activities across business units. He previously served as a communication systems engineer at BDM Corp. from 1983 through 1988. At BDM, Morin worked to develop a tactical wireless data communications network and local […] More

  • AT&T Appoints Richard Fisher as Board Member; Randall Stephenson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T Appoints Richard Fisher as Board Member; Randall Stephenson Comments

    Richard Fisher, formerly president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has joined AT&T as a member of the corporate development and finance committee of its board of directors. “His extensive financial, trade and regulatory expertise, along with his deep understanding of Mexico and Latin America, make him an invaluable addition to [the board],” Randall […] More

  • Executive Profile: Linda Boles, Healthcare Strategies, Business Development Director at ViON - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Linda Boles, Healthcare Strategies, Business Development Director at ViON

    Linda Boles is director of healthcare strategies and business development at ViON Corp. She brings more than two decades of experience in business development across health information technology, radiology, surgical systems and laboratory medicine areas to her role at ViON. Prior to joining the veteran-owned corporation, Boles served as president at LJB Healthcare Strategies. She […] More

  • Stu Shea Joins Riverside Research's Board of Trustees; Richard Annas Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stu Shea Joins Riverside Research’s Board of Trustees; Richard Annas Comments

    Stu Shea, formerly president and chief operating officer at Leidos, has joined the board of trustees at nonprofit scientific research company Riverside Research. Riverside Research said Friday it appointed Shea for his close-to three decades of experience at technology-focused government contractors in background in strategy and business development. “I am honored to be part of a company that […] More

  • Jeff DeMarrais to Join CA Tech as SVP, Chief Communications Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff DeMarrais to Join CA Tech as SVP, Chief Communications Officer

    Jeff DeMarrais, formerly chief communications officer of General Electric‘s healthcare business, will serve as senior vice president and chief communications officer of CA Technologies beginning July 20. CA said Thursday DeMarrais will work from New York and report to Lauren Flaherty, the company’s chief marketing officer. “I look forward to having him at the helm of the important brand […] More

  • Ashton Carter: DoD Selects 15 'Employer Support Freedom Award' Winners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ashton Carter: DoD Selects 15 ‘Employer Support Freedom Award’ Winners

    The U.S. Defense Department has announced the winners of its Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Awards, recognizing public and private organizations that hire people who have served in U.S. Guard and Reserve units. DoD said Thursday it chose 15 of the 2,960 nominees to receive the award at a ceremony that will be held […] More

  • Raytheon Earns Five Cogswell Awards for Industrial Security Program; Dan Schlehr Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Earns Five Cogswell Awards for Industrial Security Program; Dan Schlehr Comments

    Raytheon has received five James S. Cogswell awards for the industrial security program being implemented at various facilities of the company. The award is based on how a company maintains security at its facility in compliance with the National Industrial Security Program and sets security standards for other cleared facilities, Raytheon said Thursday. “Safeguarding our […] More

  • Executive Profile: Aubrey Merchant-Dest, Federal Chief Technology Officer at Blue Coat Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Aubrey Merchant-Dest, Federal Chief Technology Officer at Blue Coat Systems

    Aubrey Merchant-Dest leads the cybersecurity strategies unit at Blue Coat Systems as federal chief technology officer, with focus on researching next-generation security technologies and fostering partnerships using big data and analytics to determine the latest threat indicators. He joined the Sunnyvale, California-based security company from Solera Networks in 2014, bringing with him more than two decades […] More

  • Sterling Global Operations Seeks Retirement Homes for Military Working Dogs; Paul Lane Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sterling Global Operations Seeks Retirement Homes for Military Working Dogs; Paul Lane Comments

    Sterling Global Operations has launched a program that aims to find retirement homes for dogs that have performed explosive detection and search-and-rescue functions for military troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. “We’ve so far found homes for 18 dogs sent back to the U.S. from Afghanistan,” Paul Lane, director of operations at SGO, said Thursday. “There […] More

  • Executive Profile: Bill Kurtz, Vice President for Federal Sales at RSA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Bill Kurtz, Vice President for Federal Sales at RSA

    Bill Kurtz takes care of federal sales as a vice president at EMC’s security division, RSA. He joined the Reston, Virginia-based company in 2013 from Intel Security (formerly McAfee until Intel’s acquisition in 2010), where he spent seven years as federal account manager and another six years managing a team of field account managers in […] More

  • General Dynamics Receives Cogswell Award for Security Practices; Daniel Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Receives Cogswell Award for Security Practices; Daniel Johnson Comments

    General Dynamics has received the James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award for security practices at the company’s facilities in Virginia, Philadelphia and Arizona. The Defense Department’s Defense Security Service recognized the facilities for their work to implement a security program that complies with the National Industrial Security Program, General Dynamics said Wednesday. “General Dynamics is […] More

  • Rosanne Mahaney Appointed CSG Health Data Exchange Center Director; Andrea Danes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rosanne Mahaney Appointed CSG Health Data Exchange Center Director; Andrea Danes Comments

    Rosanne Mahaney, a principal at the healthcare and human services practice of CSG Government Solutions, has been named director of the company’s health information exchange center of excellence. She brings more than 30 years of experience working with state government agencies to help them modernize HHS programs, CSG said Thursday. Andrea Danes, CSG’s HHS practice […] More