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  • Fulcrum Wins Helios HR's Apollo 'Tessera' Award; Jeff Handy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fulcrum Wins Helios HR’s Apollo ‘Tessera’ Award; Jeff Handy Comments

    Fulcrum has been selected for the 2014 Helios Apollo “Tessera” Award by a panel of senior human resources executives and industry leaders for conducting activities and programs centered on employee development and engagement. The Centreville, Va.-based technology firm was presented the award during last week’s Helios HR awards ceremony in Virginia, Fulcrum said Thursday. “This award recognizes all facets of […] More

  • Airbus, Finmeccanica JV Names Patrick de Castelbajac CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, Finmeccanica JV Names Patrick de Castelbajac CEO

    Patrick de Castelbajac has been appointed CEO of French aviation firm ATR, a joint venture of Airbus Group and Finmeccanica‘s Alenia Aermacchi. Airbus said Monday the appointment follows the end of Filippo Bagnato’s four-year mandate as CEO in May. De Castelbajac has experience in both legal and aeronautical fields, previously working with MBDA before joining Baker & McKenzie as a lawyer. He […] More

  • IntelliDyne Picked for Helios Apollo 'Tria' Award; Tony Crescenzo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IntelliDyne Picked for Helios Apollo ‘Tria’ Award; Tony Crescenzo Comments

    IntelliDyne has won Helios HR‘s 2014 Helios Apollo Award in the Tria category for work to conduct programs and activities centered on employees’ professional development and engagement. The company was presented the award at a ceremony hosted by Helios HR last week after being selected by a panel of human resources executives and industry leaders, IntelliDyne said […] More

  • Intel CIO Kim Stevenson Named to Cloudera Board; Tom Reilly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel CIO Kim Stevenson Named to Cloudera Board; Tom Reilly Comments

    Kim Stevenson, corporate vice president and chief information officer of Intel, has been appointed to the board of directors at enterprise data management firm Cloudera. “Kim’s experience and strategic role as CIO of Intel are particularly valuable as she represents the voice of the customer and has a deep understanding of how data and insight can transform […] More

  • TAPE CEO Louisa Jaffe Named to Contract Mgmt Group's Advisory Board; Laurence Trowel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TAPE CEO Louisa Jaffe Named to Contract Mgmt Group’s Advisory Board; Laurence Trowel Comments

    Louisa Jaffe, CEO and president of Technical and Project Engineering, has been re-appointed to the advisory board of the National Contract Management Association for program year ending June 30, 2015. Jaffe has been a member of the NCMA’s board of advisors since 2008, providing guidance to national officers on contract management issues, TAPE said Monday. “With each year […] More

  • Paul Sagan Joins VMware Board of Directors; Pat Gelsinger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Sagan Joins VMware Board of Directors; Pat Gelsinger Comments

    Paul Sagan has been elected to the board of directors of VMware Inc., effective immediately, to fill the spot left by David Goulden. Sagan, a partner at General Catalyst Partners, also serves as a director at EMC Corp. and iRobot Corp., VMware announced. During his career, Sagan also served various positions at Akamai Technologies Inc., […] More

  • John Hopkins APL Wins Howard County Volunteer of the Year Award; Will Roncal Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Hopkins APL Wins Howard County Volunteer of the Year Award; Will Roncal Comments

    John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory was chosen to receive April 2 the Howard County’s Volunteer of the Year Award for its all-volunteer college preparation program launched in 2009. Will Roncal and Karla Roncal, the husband-wife duo that spearheaded the College Prep Program, received the award at a ceremony at the county’s George Howard Building, […] More

  • Bechtel Wins Engineering, Technology Award for LNG Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel Wins Engineering, Technology Award for LNG Project

    Bechtel has won an engineering and technology innovation award from Fiatech’s CETI Award for its use of radio frequency identification technology on its liquefied natural gas projects in Australia. Bechtel won the CETI Award in the intelligent and automated construction jobsite category, the company announced Tuesday. Bechtel used the Atlas RFID Solutions Inc.-developed Jovix system […] More

  • Ed Sheehan: CTC to Bid for Tasks Under Navy's 'Astounding' $5B SeaPort-e Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ed Sheehan: CTC to Bid for Tasks Under Navy’s ‘Astounding’ $5B SeaPort-e Vehicle

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. will compete for task orders under the Naval Sea Systems Command’s potential five-year $5.3 billion SeaPort Enhanced contract vehicle. As one of 914 SeaPort-e awardees, CTC can bid on tasks such as research and development, quality assurance, acquisition logistics and program support and 22 functional service areas are available, the company said Friday. “The magnitude […] More

  • Steve Ballmer to Buy Los Angeles Clippers for $2B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Ballmer to Buy Los Angeles Clippers for $2B

    Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers from the Sterling family trust for $2 billion, ESPN reported Friday. Shelly Sterling, sole trustee of the Sterling family trust, inked the sale agreement with Ballmer on Thursday, according to the report. “We have worked for 33 years to build the Clippers […] More

  • Northrop Task Group Receives Leadership Award for Community Work in Maryland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Task Group Receives Leadership Award for Community Work in Maryland

    The Northrop Grumman team supporting Annapolis, Maryland’s Robinwood Community Center as instructors on the center’s robotics program has received the city’s Martha Wood Leadership Award for its contributions to the local community. The company said Thursday the Robinwood Robotics Program is part of the community center’s seven-year partnership with Northrop Grumman’s African-American Task Group, an employee resource group. The […] More