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  • Battelle Receives R&D 100 Awards for Pipeline Analysis Tool, Coal Liquefaction Method - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Receives R&D 100 Awards for Pipeline Analysis Tool, Coal Liquefaction Method

    Battelle has landed two awards from R&D Magazine for the nonprofit company’s software platform that works to analyze pipeline condition and method to convert coal into synthetic crude. The company said Tuesday its PipeAssess PI software and coal-to-liquids process won R&D Awards, while its partnership with the Ohio Soybean Council, Redwood Innovations and  Kentucky State University received special recognition for the EnzoMeal […] More

  • Koniag SVP Jon Panamaroff Named to Native American Contractors Association Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Koniag SVP Jon Panamaroff Named to Native American Contractors Association Board

    Jon Panamaroff, chief compliance officer and a senior vice president for Koniag‘s government services unit, has been appointed to the Native American Contractors Association board of directors for the second time. Panamaroff, who was elected Nov. 8, is a a member of the Sun’aq tribe of Kodiak, Alaska, and previously sat on the NACA board from 2015 to 2016, […] More

  • Cubic to Demo Training Systems at Florida Conference; Dave Buss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Demo Training Systems at Florida Conference; Dave Buss Comments

    Cubic will showcase its portfolio of training systems at the five-day Interservice/Industry Training Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Florida, that is scheduled to kick off Nov. 27. I/ITSEC is an annual modeling, simulation and training conference organized by the National Training and Simulation Association, Cubic said Tuesday. The 2017 event will carry the theme “Harnessing New Technologies […] More

  • Grant Thornton Adds GPO Vet Davita Vance-Cooks to Public Sector Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton Adds GPO Vet Davita Vance-Cooks to Public Sector Practice

    Davita Vance-Cooks, former head of the U.S. Government Publishing Office, has joined Grant Thornton as a director within the professional services firm’s public sector practice. Vance-Cooks will support the operations transformation and change management efforts of the practice’s civilian business, Grant Thornton said Friday. As GPO director, Vance-Cooks led a modernization strategy to expand public access to digital […] More

  • Harris-Hosted Summit Tackles Aerospace & Defense Workforce Needs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris-Hosted Summit Tackles Aerospace & Defense Workforce Needs

    Harris collaborated with the Aerospace Industries Association to facilitate a two-day summit that brought together industry, government and academic stakeholders to discuss the future of aerospace and defense workforce. The event took place at a Harris facility in Palm Bay, Florida, and sought to promote science, technology, engineering and math education strategies meant to help grow workforce across the […] More

  • Boeing to Sponsor MIT Academic Wind Tunnel Replacement Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Sponsor MIT Academic Wind Tunnel Replacement Project

    Boeing has pledged to become the lead donor of an $18 million project to replace the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s academic wind tunnel. The company said Monday it will help replace MIT’s 79-year-old Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel with a new tunnel that will be designated “The Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel — a Gift of the Boeing Company.” […] More

  • Former BAE CEO Ian King to Become Chairman at Engineering Firm Senior - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former BAE CEO Ian King to Become Chairman at Engineering Firm Senior

    Ian King, former CEO of British defense contractor BAE Systems, will join Senior Plc in 2018 as chairman of the U.K.-based engineering firm focused on automotive and aerospace markets, Reuters reported Monday. King will succeed the retiring Charles Berry in April as the company prepares for an expected rise in demand at its aerospace, energy and trucks […] More

  • Jonathan Eaton Named Grant Thornton Supply Chain Mgmt Practice Leader - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jonathan Eaton Named Grant Thornton Supply Chain Mgmt Practice Leader

    Jonathan Eaton, formerly a vice president and industry supply chain partner at Chainalytics, has joined Grant Thornton as leader of the professional services firm’s national supply chain management. Grant Thornton said Tuesday Eaton will oversee a portfolio of strategy, transformation,  demand and supply planning, procurement, analytics, transportation, visibility and network optimization service offerings in his new position. His more than […] More

  • Lockheed Awards Scholarship to 2 Wounded Army Veterans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awards Scholarship to 2 Wounded Army Veterans

    Lockheed Martin has given Fighting Spirit Scholarship awards to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bartlett and Staff Sgt. Jay Fondren, both of whom were injured while on active duty in Iraq. The company said Monday its scholarship program offers wounded military veterans with flight and sailing opportunities through the support of Warrior Sailing Program and Able Flight nonprofit organizations. Able […] More

  • Michael Fischer Joins Comprehensive Health Services as Director of Capture & Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Fischer Joins Comprehensive Health Services as Director of Capture & Proposals

    Michael Fischer, formerly director of capture management at IAP Worldwide Services, has been appointed director of capture and proposals at Comprehensive Health Services. CHS said Tuesday Fischer brings more than 25 years of program management, capture and business development experience to the Florida-based medical services contractor’s business development team. Before IAP, he held the positions of capture manager, senior […] More

  • Philip Bilden Elected to Huntington Ingalls Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Philip Bilden Elected to Huntington Ingalls Board

    Philip Bilden, a former military intelligence officer and co-founding member of private equity firm HarbourVest Partners, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ board of directors. HII said Monday Bilden has held senior leadership roles during his 25-year career at HarbourVest that includes time at the company’s offices in Boston and Hong Kong where he established its Asian subsidiary. […] More

  • Siemens' Barbara Humpton Speaks at AFIT Additive Manufacturing Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens’ Barbara Humpton Speaks at AFIT Additive Manufacturing Forum

    Barbara Humpton, president and CEO of Siemens‘ U.S. federal government subsidiary, delivered the final remarks at an Air Force Institute of Technology symposium on additive manufacturing that took place Oct. 30 and 31 in Ohio. Humpton has led Siemens Government Technologies since October 2015 and also serves on the board of directors of the business. She was […] More