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  • Raytheon Sponsors Int'l Cybersecurity Forum; Neha Gurnani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Sponsors Int’l Cybersecurity Forum; Neha Gurnani Comments

    Raytheon will host, sponsor and participate in Fleming Gulf‘s Kingdom Cybersecurity Forum on May 12 and 13 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which is expected to highlight the state of cybersecurity and current technologies available in the marketplace. “With Raytheon as the official host and headline sponsor of the forum, participants can expect to learn about future […] More

  • Keith Morrison Appointed Board Chair at Defense Tech Company SDI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Keith Morrison Appointed Board Chair at Defense Tech Company SDI

    Keith Morrison, CEO of Canadian technology firm Gedex, has been appointed chairman of the board at defense technology firm Security Devices International following the latter company’s annual stockholders meeting on Wednesday. SDI said Monday that Morrison will aim to guide the company’s growth by using his previous business and corporate governance experience. Morrison is a board member at Marengo […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Announces Top Inventions of 2013; Jerry Krill Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Announces Top Inventions of 2013; Jerry Krill Comments

    The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has recognized a technological invention for predicting new viruses along with other publications and research. Andrew Feldman and Jeffrey Lin of the Research and Exploratory Development Department won the Invention of the Year for 2013 award for their method of developing vaccines for a short period and forecasting […] More

  • Vormetric Encryption Offering Recognized by SC Magazine Europe Awards; Paul Ayers Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vormetric Encryption Offering Recognized by SC Magazine Europe Awards; Paul Ayers Comments

    Vormetric‘s data encryption offering has been recognized by SC Magazine Europe’s SC Europe 2014 Awards as ‘best’ in the encryption solution category based on its features, implementation results and user feedback. Vormetric Transparent Encryption is designed to encrypt data and manage access by process, user and time, among other parameters, as business data grows and becomes increasingly mobile, the […] More

  • Former FDIC CISO Ned Goldberg Appointed CENTERPOINT VP; Baly Ambegaoker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former FDIC CISO Ned Goldberg Appointed CENTERPOINT VP; Baly Ambegaoker Comments

    Ned Goldberg, former chief information security officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has joined Reston, Virginia-based contracting firm CENTERPOINT as its new vice president responsible for the company’s cybersecurity business. “His experience delivering technology solutions, along with his thorough understanding of the issues that agencies face in this era of increased cyber threats, will ensure that CENTERPOINT’s […] More

  • DynCorp: 10K Vets Hired Since 2010 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp: 10K Vets Hired Since 2010

    DynCorp International and its family of companies have hired nearly 10,000 veterans since 2011 in support of a program started by the White House in the same year. The company announced Tuesday during the White House Joining Forces program’s third anniversary celebration that DynCorp has hired more than 2,000 veterans in 2013 and 9,725 since joining the […] More

  • Noblis Wins ACG Corporate Growth Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noblis Wins ACG Corporate Growth Award

    Nobilis has received the Corporate Growth Award from the Association for Corporate Growth’s national capital chapter for work to support growth strategies and transactions in the Washington metropolitan area. Nobilis accepted the award April 24 at ACG’s 12th annual awards gala, the nonprofit science and technology organization announced Monday. Nominees in the category recorded between $75 […] More

  • Lockheed Employees Donate $1M to Fort Worth Nonprofits; Roderick McLean Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Employees Donate $1M to Fort Worth Nonprofits; Roderick McLean Comments

    Lockheed Martin employees have selected 57 nonprofit organizations based in Fort Worth, Texas to receive more than $1 million in donations. The companies will issue the funds through the company’s employee-run charity AERO Club, Lockheed announced Tuesday. “The Lockheed Martin AERO Club donations reflect the diverse interests of our employees and have an enduring impact […] More

  • Boeing to Co-Host Annual Rocket Launch Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Co-Host Annual Rocket Launch Competition

    Boeing will co-host a rocket launch competition on May 10 at its Huntington Beach, Calif. facility. with support from the Discovery Science Center and the Future Scientists and Engineers of America. The free event is for young engineers to design, build and launch their own bottle rockets and get the opportunity to meet NASA astronaut […] More

  • Wyle to Compete on $900M DoD Homeland Defense, Security Research IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Wyle to Compete on $900M DoD Homeland Defense, Security Research IDIQ

    Wyle will compete for task orders with 11 other companies to perform research and technical analysis work for the U.S. military’s homeland defense and security programs under a potential five-year, $900 million contract. The Defense Department‘s Information Analysis Centers Enterprise selected the contractors to help update existing military systems and develop new technology through science […] More

  • John Barron Named Tishman Construction EVP, Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Barron Named Tishman Construction EVP, Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager

    John Barron has been appointed executive vice president and Mid-Atlantic regional manager at Tishman Construction, a subsidiary of AECOM. Barron will handle business development activities and company operations in five states and the District of Columbia, the company announced Tuesday. Tishman said Barron holds nearly 30 years of general contracting and construction management experience and […] More

  • Pat Tamburrino Jr. Named LMI Business Development Director; Bill Moore Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pat Tamburrino Jr. Named LMI Business Development Director; Bill Moore Comments

    Pat Tamburrino Jr., formerly chief of staff for the Defense Department‘s Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, has been appointed director of the business development team at government consulting firm LMI. Bill Moore, LMI executive vice president, said Wednesday that Tamburrino has experience leading  large and complex organizations. A career member of the Senior Executive Service through his work […] More