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  • BRTRC Wins Army Field Support Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BRTRC Wins Army Field Support Services Contract

    BRTRC has been awarded a $9.6 million contract to provide operational and field-support services to the Army both inside and outside the continental U.S. BRTRC received the Mine Resistant Ambushed Protected Vehicles Operations Coordinator contract from the Army TACOM Contracting Center, the company announced March 24. “We are pleased to be able to continue supporting […] More

  • Cubic Awarded Middle East Air Combat Training Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Awarded Middle East Air Combat Training Support Contract

    Cubic Corp. has won a 21-month, $11 million contract to provide air combat training support services to an unidentified country in the Middle East. The company will help to operate and maintain air combat maneuvering systems and also perform logistics work, the company announced Monday. According to Cubic, the unnamed country has used Cubic’s instrumentation training system […] More

  • Daniel Barber Named SE Solutions Cybersecurity VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Daniel Barber Named SE Solutions Cybersecurity VP

    Daniel Barber, former head of DRC/Engility‘s cybersecurity practice, has joined Strategic Enterprise Solutions as that company’s vice president of cybersecurity. Barber will manage SE Solutions’ cyber arm and focus on the company’s work in information assurance, risk management, continuous monitoring and ongoing authorization requirements, the company announced Monday. He will also be responsible for the company’s cyber […] More

  • Lockheed Employees Donate $123K to 17 Nonprofits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Employees Donate $123K to 17 Nonprofits

    Lockheed Martin has selected 17 charities in locations where the company operates to receive monetary donations that total $123,000. The donations were given in check by the company’s employee-run charity AERO Club, Lockheed announced in three separate releases on Monday and Tuesday. The AERO Club donated $18,000 to the United Way of Northern Utah, a nonprofit […] More

  • Anne Healey Joins BAE Systems as Canada Group Business Development GM; Llyr Jones Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anne Healey Joins BAE Systems as Canada Group Business Development GM; Llyr Jones Comments

    Anne Healey, formerly director of national business development at Calian’s aerospace and defense sector, has joined BAE Systems as general manager of group business development in Canada. She has been in the role since mid May, succeeding Caroline Elliott who will move into a senior business development position for the company’s Seoul-based group, BAE Systems […] More

  • Tony Prophet Joins Microsoft as Corporate VP for Windows Marketing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Prophet Joins Microsoft as Corporate VP for Windows Marketing

    Tony Prophet, formerly a group lead at Hewlett-Packard, has joined Microsoft as corporate vice president of Windows Marketing, Geek Wire reported Thursday.  Todd Bishop writes that Prophet will start his new position in May and will be responsible for Windows Marketing’s ecosystem and assisting clients in using Windows. Prophet led HP’s printing and personal systems group in his […] More

  • Lockheed Distributes Nonprofit's DIY Hovercraft Kits at Science, Engineering Festival - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Distributes Nonprofit’s DIY Hovercraft Kits at Science, Engineering Festival

    Lockheed Martin distributed 80,000 build-it-yourself hovercraft kits at the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington April 25 through 27. Silicon Valley, Calif.-based nonprofit Resource Area for Teaching designed and developed the kits for students attending the festival to promote science, technology, engineering and math, RAFT said April 25 statement. RAFT designed the hovercraft kits to teach students about friction, […] More

  • Raytheon Chairman WIlliam Swanson Inducted Into STEM Leadership Hall of Fame - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Chairman WIlliam Swanson Inducted Into STEM Leadership Hall of Fame

    William Swanson, chairman of Raytheon‘s board of directors, has been inducted into the U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame for his work to promote STEM education for future engineers and scientists. Swanson received his award at the 2014 U.S. News STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference in Washington, Raytheon announced Friday. “As someone who benefitted from […] More

  • Raytheon Names Winners of Cyber Competition; Jack Harrington Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Names Winners of Cyber Competition; Jack Harrington Comments

    Raytheon has selected the University of Central Florida as the winner of this year’s Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense comptetition held April 25-27 in San Antonio, Texas. The University of Central Florida and nine other universities were tasked to keep a fictional business running while under constant cyber attack, the company announced Sunday. As part […] More

  • Bechtel Donates $15K for Engineering Program in Washington State - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel Donates $15K for Engineering Program in Washington State

    Bechtel has donated $15,000 to a program in Washington state for nearly 250 students to participate in a series of mathematics, engineering and science achievement competitions, KVEW TV reported Friday.  Dan Thesman writes that nearly 60 teams of middle and high school students competed in challenges related to prosthetic arms development and operation. The MESA […] More

  • CNSI to Celebrate 20th Anniversary Through Volunteer Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CNSI to Celebrate 20th Anniversary Through Volunteer Work

    CNSI co-founders Adnan Ahmed, B. Chatterjee, Jaytee Kanwal and Reet Singh said the company is celebrating its 20th anniversary by giving back to communities where the company houses an office. “We are excited to celebrate this milestone with all of our employees, their families and partners across the country and in doing so we would like to also take […] More

  • John Mengucci: CACI Lands Spot on $408M IDIQ for Countering IEDs, Assymetric Warfare - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Mengucci: CACI Lands Spot on $408M IDIQ for Countering IEDs, Assymetric Warfare

    CACI International holds a position on a potential five-year, $408 million blanket purchase agreement to provide training and related support services to a Defense Department office that works to counter improvised explosive devices. The General Services Administration‘s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center selected four contractors to work with DoD’s Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization under the […] More