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  • Leidos Donates $100K to NIH's Children's Inn; Steve Comber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Donates $100K to NIH’s Children’s Inn; Steve Comber Comments

    Leidos has donated $100,000 to The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health to assist in the upkeep of the inn’s park and playground. The company also gave 25 gift cards to families staying at the inn during the December holiday season, Leidos announced Monday. Since 2011, Leidos and its employees has donated nearly […] More

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    Stephen Kupcha Appointed SAP NS2 Nonprofit Arm Head, Business Development Specialist

    Stephen Kupcha, a former Navy SEAL and 16-year Defense Department veteran, has joined SAP‘s independent national security subsidiary SAP NS2 as executive director of its nonprofit organization and as a business development senior specialist. He is the first person to hold the executive director title for NS2 Serves and most recently as senior manager of public […] More

  • Tim Dowd Joins Accurate Background's Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim Dowd Joins Accurate Background’s Board of Directors

    Tim Dowd, formerly a director at rapid drug-testing company eScreen, has joined Irvine, Calif.-based Accurate Background’s board of directors. Prior to his appointment, Dowd served on the eScreen board from 2008 to 2012, a period that saw the business record a twofold revenue and threefold EBITDA increase, Accurate Background said Tuesday. Dowd currently serves as president […] More

  • Harris Corp. Receives $21M Intl Order for Falcon Tactical Radios - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Corp. Receives $21M Intl Order for Falcon Tactical Radios

    Harris Corp. has received a $21 million order from a NATO country for the delivery of Falcon multiband tactical radios. The unnamed country will use the Falcon III AN/PRC-117G manpack and AN/PRC-152A handheld radios for its Army and special forces, Harris announced Monday. “Falcon III enables high-bandwidth applications such as streaming video, simultaneous voice and data […] More

  • Northrop's Hunter UAS Reaches 100K Combat Flight Hours - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s Hunter UAS Reaches 100K Combat Flight Hours

    Northrop Grumman‘s Hunter unmanned aircraft system has surpassed 100,000 combat flight hours in service for the U.S. Army since the drone’s initial deployment in 1996. The Army has used the RQ-5A Hunter and the MQ-5B Hunter variant to support global contingency operations, Northrop Grumman announced Monday. MQ-5B Hunters are built with a fuel-carrying extended center […] More

  • Lockheed Nuclear Facility Selected as one of IndustryWeek's Best Plants of 2013 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Nuclear Facility Selected as one of IndustryWeek’s Best Plants of 2013

    The Archbald, Pa.-based facility of Lockheed Martin was chosen as one of the Best Plants of 2013 from IndustryWeek magazine. The Missiles and Fire Control’s Archbald facility has 420 employees that design and build precision-guided weapon systems and nuclear systems for military and civil customers, the company announced Monday. “In military and nuclear energy environments, […] More

  • Unisys to Provide IT Services for 2014 Brazil World Cup - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys to Provide IT Services for 2014 Brazil World Cup

    A consortium composed of Unisys Brazil, Agora Telecom, Comtex and Modulo has been chosen to serve as the information technology provider for the 12 cities in Brazil that will host the 2014 World Cup. The Brazil Seguro Consortium was awarded the $110 million contract by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice’s Extraordinary Security Department for Large […] More

  • DDN Tech Featured in TOP500.org Supercomputer List; Laura Shepard Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DDN Tech Featured in TOP500.org Supercomputer List; Laura Shepard Comments

    DataDirect Networks-built storage infrastructures work to power more than 60 percent of TOP500.org’s list of the world’s largest computing systems by performance. The performance of computers listed in the top 10 increased by 14 times in less than five years and nine of those systems currently use DDN technology, the company said Monday. “Commercial and […] More

  • Ellyn Shook Promoted to HR Chief at Accenture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ellyn Shook Promoted to HR Chief at Accenture

    Ellyn Shook has been promoted to chief human resources officer at Accenture and will succeed Jill Smart, who is set to retire in the summer. Shook, currently senior managing director of the HR division, will start in her new position on March 31 and will also serve on the firm’s global management committee, Accenture said Tuesday. […] More

  • Cisco's STEM Org Launches Mentorship Program for Women; Patrice D'Eramo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s STEM Org Launches Mentorship Program for Women; Patrice D’Eramo Comments

    Cisco‘s STEMconnector organization has launched a program for promoting interest in science, technology, engineering and math careers for women ahead of National Mentoring Month, U.S. News reported Thursday.  Katherine Beard writes that the Million Women Mentors program will match women and girls interested in pursuing STEM degrees and career with potential mentors in the industry. […] More

  • McAfee Chooses ThunderCat as FY 2013 'Federal Partner of the Year' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McAfee Chooses ThunderCat as FY 2013 ‘Federal Partner of the Year’

    McAfee has given its fiscal year 2013 Federal Partner of the Year Award to ThunderCat Technology after comparing revenue of all McAfee partners. ThunderCat works to develop its security practices and business model based on McAfee technologies, ThunderCat announced Jan. 1. “The work McAfee is doing with their Stonesoft product line around stopping advanced evasion techniques is […] More

  • Former Symantec Chief Enrique Salem Joins ForeScout Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Symantec Chief Enrique Salem Joins ForeScout Board of Directors

    Former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem has joined the board of directors at network security firm ForeScout Technologies. The 25-year technology leadership veteran also serves on the boards of FireEye, Netskope, Atlassian, DocuSign and Biba, ForeScout said Monday. “We are honored to have Enrique join our board as we continue to expand capabilities to support our burgeoning global business,” said […] More