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  • 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

  • SAIC Sponsors Md. USO Warrior, Family Center; Doug Wagoner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Sponsors Md. USO Warrior, Family Center; Doug Wagoner Comments

    SAIC has pledged $150,000 annually for three years to became the first sponsor of the new USO Warrior and Family Center in Bethesda, Md. SAIC’s donation is intended to benefit the wounded soldiers and military families under the care of the USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore chapter, the company announced Wednesday. For the remainder of 2014, SAIC also promised […] More

  • Battelle to Host Automobile Cyber Hackathon; Karl Heimer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Host Automobile Cyber Hackathon; Karl Heimer Comments

    Battelle will hold its third annual practicum-based camp to tackle cybersecurity issues in automobiles July 13 through July 18 in Detroit. The CyberAuto Challenge has teams of students and automotive professionals participate in lectures about secure system design, secure programming, embedded systems, information technology laws and ethics, Battelle announced Monday. “Most kids interested in computers, computer […] More

  • Gulu Gambhir: Leidos Volunteers to Help Sponsor STEM Robotics Teams - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gulu Gambhir: Leidos Volunteers to Help Sponsor STEM Robotics Teams

    Leidos is funding more than 120 teams, providing employee volunteers for coaching and mentoring and sponsoring student competitions across the country to support STEM competitions hosted by nonprofit FIRST. The For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology organization is hosting its national robotics championship April 23 through April 26 in St. Louis and Leidos […] More

  • NetApp CEO Tom Georgens Adds Board Chair Title, Michael Nevens Named Lead Independent Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetApp CEO Tom Georgens Adds Board Chair Title, Michael Nevens Named Lead Independent Director

    Tom Georgens, NetApp CEO, has succeeded 20-year company veteran and former CEO Dan Warmenhoven as chairman of the board of directors. Warmenhoven will continue to serve on the board until his term expires in September, when he will retire from the post, NetApp announced Monday. Additionally, Michael Nevens has succeeded Nicholas Moore as lead independent director and Moore will […] More

  • Thales Nominates Laurence Broseta to Serve on its Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Nominates Laurence Broseta to Serve on its Board of Directors

    Laurence Broseta has been nominated to serve on the board of directors at Thales, which will be voted on at the company’s annual general meeting on May 14. If confirmed, Broseta will succeed Didier Lombard at the end of the current term, Thales announced Monday. Broseta currently serves as the head of the France division of […] More

  • Michael Spierto Named TechAmerica Cyber Policy Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Spierto Named TechAmerica Cyber Policy Director

    Michael Spierto, a former staffer at a House Homeland Security subcommittee, will officially join TechAmerica as director of cybersecurity policy on April 14, Government Technology reported Friday. Brian Heaton writes that some of Spierto’s work on Capitol Hill has included policy discussions with stakeholders about the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act. “Over 90 percent […] More

  • CAE Records 48 Simulator Sales for FY 2014; Nick Leontidis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Records 48 Simulator Sales for FY 2014; Nick Leontidis Comments

    CAE has sold 48 Level D full-flight simulators to customers in North America, Europe and India during the company’s 2014 fiscal year, which ended on March 31.. The company has also closed $68.5 million in simulator sales agreements at list prices to Southwest Airlines, Lufthansa Flight Training and a joint venture between CAE and InterGlobe, […] More

  • HP to Deploy Converged Cloud at University in India - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP to Deploy Converged Cloud at University in India

    India’s KL University has adopted HP Converged Cloud Solutions to centralize the school’s data center operations as the university welcomes more students and works to expand its research facility, CIOL reported Monday.  HP will provide Converged Cloud Solutions tools with a data center to the university for the HP CloudSystem Matrix, according to the report. KL […] More

  • Lockheed, Energy Coalition to Host Efficiency Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Energy Coalition to Host Efficiency Competition

    Lockheed Martin and the Alliance to Save Energy have launched a competition for students and educators in Maryland to come up with ideas on how to be more energy efficient. The PowerSavers Challenge will have middle and high school students design an energy savings plan with a video or pledge campaign, Lockheed Martin announced Friday. […] More

  • NVTC Selects Winners of Innovation Technology Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NVTC Selects Winners of Innovation Technology Competition

    The Northern Virginia Technology Council has chosen the winners of a four-week innovation competition that had 29 participating technology companies. The Destination Innovation competition amassed 75,000 total votes during the course of the competition through the Washington Post’s Capital Business website, NVTC announced Thursday. LynxFit won the social category, Homesnap won the commerce category, LMI […] More