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  • Tech Industry Vet Praveen Asthana Joins Forcepoint as Chief Marketing Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Industry Vet Praveen Asthana Joins Forcepoint as Chief Marketing Officer

    Praveen Asthana, former senior vice president at Oracle, has joined cybersecurity company Forcepoint as chief marketing officer. Forcepoint said  Monday Asthana will oversee global marketing for the company and its four business areas including cloud security, network security, global governments and data and insider threat security. Asthana will also report to Forcepoint CEO Matthew Moynahan and support the […] More

  • GTT Executive Chair H. Brian Thompson Lands IEEE Award for Comms Quality Leadership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GTT Executive Chair H. Brian Thompson Lands IEEE Award for Comms Quality Leadership

    H. Brian Thompson, founder and executive chairman of GTT Communications, has received an award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions in efforts to establish communications quality, reliability and security. The company said May 31 IEEE’s Communications Society Technical Committee on Communications Quality & Reliability awarded Thompson this year’s CQR Chairman’s Award in recognition of his […] More

  • SSL’s Rob Zitz to Lead Panel Discussion on Next-Gen Satellites at GEOINT 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL’s Rob Zitz to Lead Panel Discussion on Next-Gen Satellites at GEOINT 2017

    Rob Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Space Systems Loral’s government systems business, is scheduled to moderate today a panel discussion on next-generation satellites at the GEOINT 2017 Symposium that kicked off Sunday in San Antonio, Texas. Zitz, who is also co-chair of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s small satellite working group, will […] More

  • Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Elected to Textron Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Elected to Textron Board

    Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force, will officially join Textron on July 1 as a member of the board of directors. Textron said Thursday she will bring three decades of homeland and national security experience in the public and private sectors to the company. “Deborah’s deep expertise in national security, government procurement, strategic planning, cybersecurity, logistics […] More

  • PV Puvvada Named Vice Chair of Professional Services Council's Executive Committee, Directorial Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PV Puvvada Named Vice Chair of Professional Services Council’s Executive Committee, Directorial Board

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal business, has been appointed as vice chair of the Professional Services Council’s executive committee and board of directors. Unisys said Friday Puvvada will lead strategy development and implementation at PSC in his new role. “PV has been a key contributor to PSC for years, and we are pleased he has accepted this […] More

  • Leidos Appears in 'Best for Vets' List for 4th Consecutive Year; Ann Addison Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Appears in ‘Best for Vets’ List for 4th Consecutive Year; Ann Addison Comments

    Leidos has landed the 22nd spot on Military Times’ Best for Vets Employers 2017 list for the fourth consecutive year in recognition of the company’s efforts to hire and retain former military personnel. Ann Addison, chief human resources officer of Leidos, said in a statement published Tuesday veterans make up 20 percent of the company’s workforce and that the award reflects […] More

  • Intel’s Melvin Greer to Receive BDPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel’s Melvin Greer to Receive BDPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award

    Melvin Greer, director of data science and analytics at Intel, will receive the Lifetime Achievement from Black Data Processing Associates in recognition of his contribution to the information technology sector. BDPA will present the award to Greer during the 39th Annual National Technology Conference and Career Fair that is set to kick off on July 26 in Cincinnati, […] More

  • CTC Named to 2017 Military Times ‘Best for Vets’ Employers List; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Named to 2017 Military Times ‘Best for Vets’ Employers List; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has been named to Military Times’ Best for Vets employers list for the seventh time in recognition of the company’s efforts to provide employment opportunities to U.S. veterans. The 2017 Best for Vets list of 82 companies is based on the results of a 100-question survey and assessment of the firms’ corporate culture and […] More

  • IT Security Market Vet Frank Mong Named Hortonworks Chief Marketing Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IT Security Market Vet Frank Mong Named Hortonworks Chief Marketing Officer

    Frank Mong, former senior vice president of product, industry and solutions at Palo Alto Networks, has been appointed chief marketing officer at Santa Clara, California-based open data technology provider Hortonworks. Mong will oversee Hortonworks’ global marketing strategy to build on the company’s growth efforts, according to a May 22 press release. Raj Verma, president and chief operating officer of Hortonworks, said […] More

  • Event Promotion: WSGR Associate Mark Holloway to Lead Roundtable at Summer 2017 CONNECTpreneur Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Event Promotion: WSGR Associate Mark Holloway to Lead Roundtable at Summer 2017 CONNECTpreneur Forum

    Mark Holloway, an associate at law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, will lead a roundtable discussion on technology companies at the Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Summer Forum on June 13 at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in Virginia. The roundtable will focus on ways to successfully build, sell and acquire technology companies. Panelists include: Carolyn Parent, […] More

  • Eric Barton Named CTO for DataDirect Networks' Software-Defined Storage Portfolio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Barton Named CTO for DataDirect Networks’ Software-Defined Storage Portfolio

    Eric Barton, former lead architect of Intel‘s high performance data division, has joined DataDirect Networks as chief technology officer of its software-defined storage portfolio. DDN said Wednesday his new role entails oversight of strategic roadmap, technology architecture and product design for the company’s newly formed Infinite Memory Engine business unit. “Barton is a visionary with a proven track record and deep understanding […] More

  • Former DHS Official Douglas Smith Joins ENODO Global's Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DHS Official Douglas Smith Joins ENODO Global’s Advisory Board

    Douglas Smith, a former assistant secretary for the private sector at the Department of Homeland Security, has joined advisory firm ENODO Global as a member of its board of advisers. ENODO said Tuesday Smith has coordinated private-sector partnerships with all 22 DHS divisions as part of his responsibilities at the department. He also represented DHS on the U.S. president’s travel and tourism advisory […] More