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  • Deloitte Corporate Finance Wins M&A Advisor Award; Simon Gisby Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte Corporate Finance Wins M&A Advisor Award; Simon Gisby Comments

    Deloitte’s Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC has won the “Deal of the Year Award” for its advisory work in helping LMW Healthcare buy the assets of The Westerly Hospital. DCF was presented the award in the health care and life sciences category at the 8th Annual M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards March 11 in Palm Beach, Fla., […] More

  • Peter Smith of AMERICAN SYSTEMS Joins TechAmerica's Public Sector Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Smith of AMERICAN SYSTEMS Joins TechAmerica’s Public Sector Board of Directors

    Peter Smith, chief operating officer at AMERICAN SYSTEMS, has been elected to join the public sector board of directors at TechAmerica. The more than three-decade industry veteran will provide counsel on technology strategies for the government IT contracting sector as a TechAmerica public sector board member, AMERICAN SYSTEMS said Monday. Members of the TechAmerica public sector […] More

  • Connie Crawford Named Louis Berger Rail, Transit Lead; Larry Walker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Connie Crawford Named Louis Berger Rail, Transit Lead; Larry Walker Comments

    Connie Crawford, a senior vice president at Louis Berger, has been promoted to lead the firm’s rail and transit global practice. She will lead the firm’s pursuits of major global mass transit market sector projects, Louis Berger announced Wednesday. “Since joining Louis Berger in 2009, Connie has brought valuable experience leading the development of large-scale transportation […] More

  • Raytheon to Observe 'Pi Day' for STEM Celebration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Observe ‘Pi Day’ for STEM Celebration

    Raytheon and its employees will observe “Pi Day” on Friday to promote programs related to science, technology, engineering and math by delivering applies pies to math teachers in six states. The company will deliver the pies to teachers within 3.14 miles of its facilities in Arizona, California, Virginia, Florida, Massachusetts and Maryland, Raytheon announced Thursday. Other projects […] More

  • Christopher Kubasik Joins Seabury Group's Advisory Board; John Luth Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Christopher Kubasik Joins Seabury Group’s Advisory Board; John Luth Comments

    Christopher Kubasik, formerly president and chief operating officer Lockheed Martin until 2012, has been appointed to the board of advisers at Seabury Group, an advisory and investment banking company. “In joining Seabury’s board of advisors, Chris joins a distinguished group that includes Douglas Steenland, formerly CEO of Northwest Airlines and David Turnbull, former CEO of the Swire Group and […] More

  • John Nieto, Harris RF Communications Scientist, Picked as 2014 Fellow; Dana Mehnert Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Nieto, Harris RF Communications Scientist, Picked as 2014 Fellow; Dana Mehnert Comments

    John Nieto, a senior scientist at Harris RF Communications, has received the 2014 Harris Fellow Award for his contributions to the company in the fields of engineering and communications technology. Harris said Friday Nieto has contributed to at least 50 company patents and to the development of the Falcon radio system used by the Defense Department, among […] More

  • CACI to Sponsor Digital Inclusion Category at 'Digital Leaders 100' Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Sponsor Digital Inclusion Category at ‘Digital Leaders 100’ Awards

    CACI International will sponsor the 2014 Digital Leaders 100 Awards’ digital inclusion product or service category that covers organizations that have developed technology for accessing digital public services, Digital by Default News reported Friday. Katy Menczer writes the award was started in 2013 to highlight the use of eServices technologies such as  digital inclusion. Nominations for the top […] More

  • UnitedHealthcare Donates $1M to Connecticut Children's Medical Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UnitedHealthcare Donates $1M to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center

    UnitedHealthcare has donated $1 million to the Office for Community Child Health of the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in order to support care delivery functions. The office will use the proceeds to create a Maintenance of Certification program to help train primary care pediatricians in managing diseases such as asthma and obesity, the company announced Tuesday. […] More

  • FireEye's Steve Pataky Among CRN's '50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye’s Steve Pataky Among CRN’s ’50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs’

    Steve Pataky, vice president of worldwide channels and alliances at FireEye, has been included in CRN magazine’s list of the 50 most influential leaders in the channel industry; The CRN editorial team picked Pataky for his leadership work on FireEye’s channel-related programs such as the FireEye Fuel Partner Program, FireEye announced Tuesday. The FireEye Fuel Partner Program […] More

  • Mason Morfit of ValueAct Capital Joins Microsoft Board; John Thompson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mason Morfit of ValueAct Capital Joins Microsoft Board; John Thompson Comments

    Mason Morfit, ValueAct Capital president, has been elected to join the board of directors at Microsoft Corp. Morfit will also serve in the board’s audit committee, Microsoft said Tuesday statement. Since Aug. 30, 2013 ValueAct Capital has worked with Microsoft since August 2013 under a cooperation agreement that granted Morfit an option to join the board.. […] More

  • Sean McCarron Joins Smartronix as Sales VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sean McCarron Joins Smartronix as Sales VP

    Sean McCarron will serve as vice president of sales at Smartronix and will lead the company’s sales and business development efforts in the commercial cloud computing market. He was most recently the business development manager at Amazon Web Services, Smartronix announced Tuesday. Before AWS, the 14-year industry veteran held positions at Microsoft and Esri. On his […] More

  • Exelis GPS Interference Detectors Deployed For the Super Bowl; Mark Pisani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis GPS Interference Detectors Deployed For the Super Bowl; Mark Pisani Comments

    A suite oif Exelis products used to detect and locate interference against GPS systems was used during Super Bowl XLVIII, held Feb. 2 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Law enforcement officials used Signal Sentry 1000 to protect critical GPS infrastructure during the game as they worked to detect and locate potential jamming sources, Exelis said Wednesday. […] More