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  • Lockheed Honors Employees with President's Volunteer Service Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Honors Employees with President’s Volunteer Service Awards

    Lockheed Martin is celebrating National Volunteer Week by presenting President Obama’s 2013 President’s Volunteer Service Awards to more than 2,900 employees. Employees who received the award have volunteered for more than 100 hours of service in a 12-month period, the company announced Thursday. For 2013, Lockheed Martin PVSA recipients have logged in a total of […] More

  • LMI Wins Innovation Technology Award Sponsored by NVTC and The Washington Post; Gus Creedon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI Wins Innovation Technology Award Sponsored by NVTC and The Washington Post; Gus Creedon Comments

    The open source semantic software developed by LMI has won the most innovative technology award in the government category of a months-long competition sponsored by the Northern Virginia Technology Council and The Washington Post. LMI’s OpenPolicy tool won the Destination Innovation 2014 award for how it helps organize massive data and knowledge in “countless pages […] More

  • Praescient Analytics Named Finalist for SmartCEO Voltage Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Praescient Analytics Named Finalist for SmartCEO Voltage Award

    Praescient Analytics is a finalist in the technology innovator category of SmartCEO magazine’s Voltage Award, which recognizes companies that the publication deems as innovators in the big data field. SmartCEO highlighted Praescient’s work with executives and leaders and policymakers to combine human characteristics with technology in big data organizations, the company announced Wednesday. The publication […] More

  • Lou Von Thaer: Leidos to Participate at GEOINT Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lou Von Thaer: Leidos to Participate at GEOINT Symposium

    Leidos will exhibit its portfolio of geospatial technology tools at the GEOINT 2013 Symposium Monday through Thursday in Tampa, Fla.. Lou Van Thaer, Leidos president for national security sector, said Thursday that the company builds geospatial intelligence technologies for national security and critical infrastructure protection. “GEOINT is an ideal opportunity to showcase the innovative geospatial intelligence technology […] More

  • Iron Bow Lands 2 Cisco Partner Awards; Rene LaVigne Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Bow Lands 2 Cisco Partner Awards; Rene LaVigne Comments

    Iron Bow Technologies has been selected for two 2014 Cisco Partner Summit Global Awards in recognition of Iron Bow’s business practices. Iron Bow won the public sector architectural excellence award and the U.S. architectural excellence award in the data center category, the company announced Thursday. “Many of our customers are looking for innovative solutions to create […] More

  • IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin Wins Finnish Technology Award for Data Storage Invention - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin Wins Finnish Technology Award for Data Storage Invention

    IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin has won the Technology Academy Finland’s Millenium Technology Prize, an award given every two years to people in recognition of their scientific research work and creation of new technologies. Parkin was recognized for his 1989 invention of a spin valve that is in nearly every hard drive sold today, the company announced […] More

  • URS Corp. Included in Women's Business Enterprise's Top Company List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    URS Corp. Included in Women’s Business Enterprise’s Top Company List

    The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council has included URS Corp. in its annual list of top 45 corporations for women’s business. URS received the honor at the council’s recent 15th WBENC Summit & Salute to Women’s Business Enterprise in New Orleans, the company announced Tuesday. “It is noteworthy to be included on this list; our recognition […] More

  • Telos Wins Prime Position on $5.8B NETCENTS Program; Brendan Malloy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos Wins Prime Position on $5.8B NETCENTS Program; Brendan Malloy Comments

    Telos Corp. has become a prime contractor on the indefinite delivery- indefinite quantity $5.8 billion NETCENTS-2 program. Telos is one of 12 companies selected for the project, the company announced Wednesday. “Telos has been proud to serve the government under the original NETCENTS contract since 2004. We’ve brought together a stellar team of solution providers […] More

  • Pat Locke: Leidos to Sponsor Leadership Ethics and Diversity STEM Workshop - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pat Locke: Leidos to Sponsor Leadership Ethics and Diversity STEM Workshop

    Leidos will help the West Point Society of DC promote leadership ethics and diversity by sponsoring a science, technology, engineering and math workshop on April 11 at Howard University. The workshop, administered and funded by Seeds of Humanity Foundation, is slated to have an attendence of more than 40 schools with 220 teachers and student delegates […] More

  • Lockheed, Conrad Foundation Name Winners of Innovation Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Conrad Foundation Name Winners of Innovation Summit

    The Conrad Foundation has announced the winners of its 2014 Innovation Summit, which was presented by Lockheed Martin. The four teams of highschool students who won, showcased their work in the aerospace and aviation, cybertechnology and security, energy and environment and health and nutrition categories, winning a total of $47,500 in awards, The Conrad Foundation […] More

  • Neustar, Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana Partner for Regional STEM Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Neustar, Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana Partner for Regional STEM Program

    Neustar and the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana have partnered to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics education for young girls in Kentucky and Indiana.  The company’s will use EverFi’s My Digital Life digital learning platforms to work with more than 4,000 Girl Scouts in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, Neustar announced Wednesday. Cadette girl scouts of ages […] More

  • Pat Burke: SRA Int'l Named Finalist for American Technology Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pat Burke: SRA Int’l Named Finalist for American Technology Award

    SRA International Inc. has been named a finalist in the information technology services and consulting category of the American Technology Award, an annual technology industry award. SRA earned the spot through its IT strategic planning approach called AcuITy Insightful Solutions, the company announced Wednesday. Pat Burke, SRA chief technology officer, said AcuITy has helped them provide […] More