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  • Northrop Wins BAE Systems Supplier Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Wins BAE Systems Supplier Award

    Northrop Grumman has received a customer service-related award from a BAE Systems unit for work to supply a platform management system to the U.K.’s defense ministry. BAE Systems Maritime-Submarines chose Northrop to receive the supplier award for the ministry’s Astute nuclear-powered submarine program, Northrop announced Wednesday. Sperry Marine, a Northrop business unit based in New […] More

  • Amazon Web Services Launches Cloud Contest for Local Governments, Partners; Teresa Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon Web Services Launches Cloud Contest for Local Governments, Partners; Teresa Carlson Comments

    An AWS panel will pick seven winners for the practices and partners in innovation categories for the City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge between May and June, AWS said Tuesday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector at AWS, said the contest is intended to recognize municipalities and partners who could help develop […] More

  • Parsons Awarded Middle East Electricity Award; Guy Mehula Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Awarded Middle East Electricity Award; Guy Mehula Comments

    Parsons‘ street lighting project in Abu Dhabi has won the Lighting Project of the Year award at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Center last week. The company was recognized for its design and construction supervision services of Ras Al Akhdar Bainoonah Street, Parsons announced Wednesday. Parsons is one of 25 companies that were shortlisted […] More

  • Parsons-Managed Houston Metro Project Wins 6 ADDY Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons-Managed Houston Metro Project Wins 6 ADDY Awards

    A Parsons-managed project has won six awards from the American Advertising Federation-Houston for management of the METRORail Expansion Project in Harry County, Texas for Houston’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The METRORail Expansion Project was recognized in four separate 2014 ADDY award categories, the company announced Wednesday. Also Read: Executive Profile: Mike Loose, Parsons SVP for Infrastructure and […] More

  • Verizon Joins Open Source Advocacy Group; Guru Pai Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon Joins Open Source Advocacy Group; Guru Pai Comments

    Verizon has joined an organization that promotes Linux through the use of open source software for the communications industry. The company will act as a licensee of the Open Invention Network and also becomes the organization’s first major communications service provider member, OIN announced Tuesday. OIN develops software and patents that are royalty-free to any […] More

  • DynCorp Picked for Magazine's Top Vet-Owned Business Partner List; Steve Gaffney Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp Picked for Magazine’s Top Vet-Owned Business Partner List; Steve Gaffney Comments

    The National Veteran-Owned Business Association’s Vetrepreneur magazine has selected DynCorp International as one of the top 25 companies in the U.S. that work with veteran-owned businesses.  DynCorp has been included in the list for the eighth year in a row and will be recognized in the magazine’s April issue, DynCorp announced Tuesday. “More than 60% of […] More

  • Joslin Diabetes Center Joins Oracle Health Sciences Network; Jonathan Sheldon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joslin Diabetes Center Joins Oracle Health Sciences Network; Jonathan Sheldon Comments

    Joslin Diabetes Center has moved to grow its clinical trial research work and collaborations with industry by joining the Oracle Health Sciences Network. Boston-based Joslin will upload authorized and de-identified clinical data in an Oracle cloud environment as a network member, Oracle announced Tuesday. Jonathan Sheldon, Oracle Health Sciences global vice president, said the network’s goal is […] More

  • David Perry: Northrop Seeks to Build STEM Workforce Through Externship Summer Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Perry: Northrop Seeks to Build STEM Workforce Through Externship Summer Program

    Northrop Grumman has launched a new program for non-U.S. citizens studying in the country to gain professional experience in the cyber, program management and computer engineering fields. The externship program is a joint project with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the company announced Tuesday. Chosen students from accredited universities will participate in an eight-week […] More

  • Lockheed Delivers 17th Super Galaxy Airlifter to the U.S. Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Delivers 17th Super Galaxy Airlifter to the U.S. Air Force

    Lockheed Martin has delivered the U.S. Air Force‘s 17th C-5M Super Galaxy strategic airlifter to the service’s Marietta, Ga.-based Dobbins Air Force Base. The Super Galaxy will next be moved to the Stewart Air National Base in New York to undergo internal paint restoration until finally reaching the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the company […] More

  • Parkinson's Disease Program Picked for Excellence.Gov Overall Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parkinson’s Disease Program Picked for Excellence.Gov Overall Award

    The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council honored the winners of its 14th annual Excellence.Gov awards on Monday to recognize several information technology programs launched within the past year for the government. There were 31 finalists from 17 public sector agencies that competed for seven titles and were evaluated by 40 judges during a three-stage process, […] More

  • Robert Zapfel Named Xerox President of Services Business, Corporate EVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Zapfel Named Xerox President of Services Business, Corporate EVP

    Robert Zapfel has been named the president of Xerox‘s services business and the corporate executive vice president, effective April 1. Zapfel will replace Lynn Blodgett, who will retire at the end of 2014, the company announced Monday. Blodgett, who joined the company in 2010 after the acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services, will assist in Zapfel’s transition […] More

  • Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility to Continue Army Systems Engineering Support Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility to Continue Army Systems Engineering Support Work

    An Engility Holdings subsidiary has been awarded a position on a $10 million systems engineering support contract with the U.S. Army Armament Research Development and Engineering Center. Dynamics Research Corp. will provide systems analysis and architecting, product data acquisition and management, model-based systems engineering and other related services to the center’s systems engineering directorate, the company said Monday. Tony Smeraglinolo, […] More