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  • Craig Olson Succeeds Jeff Standerski as Rockwell Collins Business, Regional Systems Lead; Kent Tatler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Craig Olson Succeeds Jeff Standerski as Rockwell Collins Business, Regional Systems Lead; Kent Tatler Comments

    Craig Olson, formerly a group senior director at Rockwell Collins, has been named vice president and general manager of business and regional systems at the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based avionics manufacturer. He will report directly to Kent Statler, executive VP and chief operating officer of Rockwell Collins’ commercial systems business and succeeds Jeff Standerski, who is […] More

  • Executive Profile: Alex Fox, DigitalGlobe Defense & Intelligence VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Alex Fox, DigitalGlobe Defense & Intelligence VP

    Alex Fox serves as vice president of defense and intelligence at DigitalGlobe, where the 25-year GovCon sector veteran helps lead business development and sales in the U.S. government market. Prior to joining DigitalGlobe in 2011, he worked to hone his skills in operations, engineering and development functions in leadership roles at TASC, Northrop Grumman, GeoEye, Orbital […] More

  • Doug Pasko of Verizon Joins Q Factor's Board of Advisors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Doug Pasko of Verizon Joins Q Factor’s Board of Advisors

    Doug Pasko has joined the board of advisors of Q Factor. where he will work with the board’s technical advisors as the company gets ready to launch its first products in the marketplace in early 2014. Pasko currently serves as a director in the network and technology organization of Verizon, Q Factor announced Monday. “We […] More

  • Turner Construction's Youthforce 2020 STEM Education Program Now in its 25th Year - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Turner Construction’s Youthforce 2020 STEM Education Program Now in its 25th Year

    Turner Construction Co. is continuing its educational program for the youth of Baltimore, Md., including ongoing classes concerning the construction industry. As a part of the Youthforce 2020 program, the company’s community affairs director, Dexter Hendricks, meets with  City Springs Elementary and Middle School students once a month, according to a Baltimore Curriculum Project blog post […] More

  • Splunk App for VMware Listed in Virtualization Review's Editor Choice Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Splunk App for VMware Listed in Virtualization Review’s Editor Choice Awards

    A health monitoring application that  Splunk developed for VMware developed was selected for the editor’s choice award in the server virtualization category of Virtualization Review’s 2014 Reader’s Choice Awards. The Splunk App for VMware is designed to correlate VMware data with data from other technologies and insights on performance, capacity and security analytics, Splunk announced Monday. “In the information […] More

  • Tetra Tech, Nonprofit Partner to Build STEM-Focused High School in Zambia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tetra Tech, Nonprofit Partner to Build STEM-Focused High School in Zambia

    Tetra Tech is building a high school in rural Zambia that will focus on science, technology, engineering and math with the support of nonprofit organization Engineers Without Borders. Tetra Tech’s employees raised $11,210 in two days for the school, based in the town of Lumwana, where many youth only stay in school through ninth grade, the […] More

  • Microsoft Publishes Enterprise Mobility White Paper; Don Morrison Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Publishes Enterprise Mobility White Paper; Don Morrison Comments

    Microsoft has released a white paper that proposes privacy and security best practices for corporate employees who use their own mobile devices in the workplace. The company says organizations should develop policies to stop botnets and spyware from entering their enterprise information technology networks. A global survey by Gartner Research found 88 percent of executives said […] More

  • BAE's Mike Dobson Discuss Industry-Military Partnerships at London Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s Mike Dobson Discuss Industry-Military Partnerships at London Forum

    Mike Dobson, head of mission training and business development at BAE Systems, will lead a company presentation on Feb. 3 at the two-day Joint Forces Simulation & Training Conference in London. Dobson’s team will talk about the private industry’s role in preparing warfighters for joint force operations, event organizer SMi Group Ltd. said Tuesday. Attendees […] More

  • Microsoft, UAE Govt to Deploy More IT Academy Testing Centers; Marwan Al Sawaleh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, UAE Govt to Deploy More IT Academy Testing Centers; Marwan Al Sawaleh Comments

    The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Education plans to have 25 testing centers for Microsoft‘s online information technology program before the end of the academic year, Khaleej Times reported Thursday. Marwan Al Sawaleh, undersecretary for MoE, told the publication the ministry plans to add 11 more Microsoft IT Academy centers in order to help students pursue […] More

  • Industry Profile: Kim Burke, Jones Lang LaSalle Public Institutions Managing Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Profile: Kim Burke, Jones Lang LaSalle Public Institutions Managing Director

    Kim Burke serves as the managing director of the public institutions group of Jones Lang LaSalle, where she handles privatization programs, federal financial management and federal real estate and strategic planning functions. Burke also works on initiatives related to program performance measurement, federal legislation, regulatory assistance and Office of Management and Budget scoring and accounting. A […] More

  • VMware to Launch 4th Annual Data Center Research Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware to Launch 4th Annual Data Center Research Competition

    VMware wants university researchers to participate in the company’s fourth annual data center automation competition with a prize of a $150,000 grant up for grabs, Cloud Pro reported Friday.  Jane McCallion writes that researchers for the 2014 Academic Research Awards are being asked to explore matters related to scalable machine learning, algorithms, design patterns, data intensive […] More

  • Accenture Names Michael Sutcliff, Mark Knickrehm to Lead Digital Orgs; Pierre Nanterme Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Names Michael Sutcliff, Mark Knickrehm to Lead Digital Orgs; Pierre Nanterme Comments

    Accenture veterans Michael Sutcliff and Mark Knickrehm have been appointed to serve as CEOs of the company’s newly formed digital and strategic growth platforms. Sutcliff will lead a 23,000-employee team that will work to deliver Accenture’s mobility, analytics and interactive offerings and Knickrehm will oversee an organization designed to help customers implement technology, business and […] More