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  • Boeing’s Matthew Jones, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Susan Nelson Join CompTIA Space Enterprise Council - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Matthew Jones, Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Susan Nelson Join CompTIA Space Enterprise Council

    CompTIA has appointed Matthew Jones, director of C4ISR and advanced technology and government operations at Boeing, as chair of the technology industry association’s space enterprise council. Susan Nelson, director of government affairs and Washington operations at Aerojet Rocketdyne, will serve as vice chair of SEC, CompTIA said Thursday. “Under Matt and Susan’s guidance, we expect the […] More

  • FirstNet Senior Manager Steven Smith Joins Sevatec's Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FirstNet Senior Manager Steven Smith Joins Sevatec’s Advisory Board

    Steven Smith, senior manager of the First Responder Network Authority, has joined the board of advisers of Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services contractor Sevatec. He brings to Sevatec’s advisory board three decades of information technology management experience in both the public and private sectors, the company said Thursday. “We are fortunate to have [Smith] lending his broad federal government […] More

  • Aerospace Industry Vet Scott Campbell Joins AAMSI in SVP Role; Dennis Zalupski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerospace Industry Vet Scott Campbell Joins AAMSI in SVP Role; Dennis Zalupski Comments

    Scott Campbell, a former senior vice president at VAS Defense, has joined Associated Aircraft Manufacturing & Sales Inc. to serve in a similar role at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based military aviation technology manufacturing and repair company. AAMSI said Wednesday the 26-year aerospace industry veteran will oversee sales and business development functions of the company’s newly formed business unit that supports customers […] More

  • Jim Kowalski Joins MapR Technologies as Chief Revenue Officer; Matt Mills Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Kowalski Joins MapR Technologies as Chief Revenue Officer; Matt Mills Comments

    Jim Kowalski, formerly an enterprise organization lead at Marketo, has joined converged data platform provider MapR Technologies Inc. as chief revenue officer. MapR said Nov. 16 that he will be responsible for the company’s global go-to-market team that includes sales and sales engineering functions. “Jim’s focus is on accelerating our top-line revenue and ability to execute, while […] More

  • Mark Testoni: 19 Veterans Complete SAP NS2 Nonprofit Arm’s IT Training Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Testoni: 19 Veterans Complete SAP NS2 Nonprofit Arm’s IT Training Program

    SAP National Security Services’ nonprofit organization has certified a group of 19 military veterans who underwent an information technology training program designed to help them land jobs in the IT industry, the Andrews Gazette reported Wednesday. Hannah Troyer writes the sixth class of veterans attended the graduation ceremony for NS2 Serves’ 12-week training program on Nov. 18 […] More

  • CSRA to Feature Maritime Simulation Training Software at Defense Modeling Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Feature Maritime Simulation Training Software at Defense Modeling Conference

    CSRA will demonstrate its VirtualShip maritime simulation training software at the ongoing National Training and Simulation Association’s 2016 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference through Dec. 2. The company said Friday it will also hold a Maritime Training Solutions USERS Group Conference at the event. Representatives from participating companies will lead a discussion on the Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy that works to train cybersecurity professionals […] More

  • Donna Harris to Step Down as Co-CEO of D.C. Incubator 1776 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Donna Harris to Step Down as Co-CEO of D.C. Incubator 1776

    Donna Harris is due to step down from her role as co-CEO of Washington, D.C.-based seed fund and startup incubator 1776 by the end of January 2017. She will remain at 1776 as a board member and partner in the fund while her co-CEO and co-founder Evan Burfield will become the sole CEO, the company said Wednesday. Harris wrote in an article published […] More

  • Bill Brown Takes Lead Role at Unisys' Enterprise Solutions Group; Tom Higgins Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Brown Takes Lead Role at Unisys’ Enterprise Solutions Group; Tom Higgins Comments

    Bill Brown, formerly head of commercial business in Europe, Middle East and Africa region at Dell, has taken a lead role at the EMEA enterprise services organisation of Unisys Corp. Brown will be responsible for the commercial division in EMEA and the delivery of security, application services, cloud and infrastructure and end user services to […] More

  • HPE Vet Doug Oathout Joins Black Box as Strategic Partner Relations VP; E.C. Sykes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE Vet Doug Oathout Joins Black Box as Strategic Partner Relations VP; E.C. Sykes Comments

    Doug Oathout, formerly vice president of converged infrastructure and alliance marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has joined Black Box Corp. as VP of strategic partner relations. Oathout will oversee the company’s holistic and innovative partner strategy with his more than 20 years of experience in partner relations and marketing, Black Box said Nov. 21. “We […] More

  • Alan Davies Departs Rolls-Royce Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alan Davies Departs Rolls-Royce Board of Directors

    Alan Davies has departed his role at the board of directors of Rolls-Royce as a non-executive director. Davies joined the board on Nov. 1, 2015 and has been a member of the nominations and governance committee, the audit committee and the safety and ethics committee, Rolls-Royce reported Friday “I am hugely grateful to Alan for […] More

  • Klas Telecom Govt Adds Lawrence Brock to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Klas Telecom Govt Adds Lawrence Brock to Board of Directors

    Klas Telecom Government has appointed Lawrence Brock, a retired U.S. Army major general and former commanding general of the 311th Signal Command, to the board of directors for the company’s U.S. government and defense business. Dave Huisenga, Klas Telecom Government president and CEO, said Tuesday Brock will help the company formulate its strategy to deliver new communications equipment to warfighters and operators. […] More