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  • Alliance for Transportation Innovation Launches; Paul Brubaker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alliance for Transportation Innovation Launches; Paul Brubaker Comments

    Washington business leaders have launched the Alliance for Transportation Innovation organization comprised of companies, advocates and experts in transportation technology who seek to improve the country’s transportation systems through innovative technologies. ATI21 will work with transportation innovation industry leaders, including the Consumer Technology Association, the consortium said Thursday. Paul Brubaker, ATI21 chairman and a former administrator of the Transportation […] More

  • Jeremy Myers Named IT Solutions Architect at iGov; Chuck Reiche Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeremy Myers Named IT Solutions Architect at iGov; Chuck Reiche Comments

    Jeremy Myers, a 25-year information technology veteran, has been appointed IT solutions architect at Reston, Virginia-based tactical C4ISR systems and lifecycle support provider iGov. He will support the company’s business development functions and lead its efforts to design enterprise architecture, assess emerging technology and develop advanced concepts in his new position, iGov said Monday. The company noted he […] More

  • Liquid Robotics Adds 3 Members to Strategic Advisory Board; Gary Gysin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Liquid Robotics Adds 3 Members to Strategic Advisory Board; Gary Gysin Comments

    Liquid Robotics has named three new members to its strategic advisory board  U.S. Pacific Command head Timothy Keating, former United Nations Command leader Walter Sharp and Francisco Chavez — a senior scientist and biological oceanographer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The unmanned ocean robot manufacturer said Tuesday Keating, Sharp and Chavez will join 18 board advisers from […] More

  • KaBOOM to Install Play Equipment at VA Medical Centers, Fisher Houses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KaBOOM to Install Play Equipment at VA Medical Centers, Fisher Houses

    Nonprofit organization KaBOOM has entered into a partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide play equipment such as Imagination Playground and Rigamajigs to VA medical centers and Fisher Houses nationwide. CarMax, KaBOOM’s corporate sponsor for the initiative, will help install four playgrounds and award 30 grants for Imagination Playgrounds and Rigamajigs in efforts to accommodate children of veteran families visiting the […] More

  • Leidos Announces Disruptive Tech Essay Contest Winners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Announces Disruptive Tech Essay Contest Winners

    Leidos has awarded $10,000 in cash prizes to the winners of an essay writing contest that focused on emerging and disruptive technologies. Sean Cate and Jesse Sloman took first place in the competition, U.S. Navy Commander Timothy McGeehan and retired Commander Douglas Wahl won second place and Navy Lt. (junior grade) Michael Haydell took third place, Leidos said […] More

  • New Coalition of Retired Service Officials to Advocate for Changes to Gun Ownership Background Check Laws - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New Coalition of Retired Service Officials to Advocate for Changes to Gun Ownership Background Check Laws

    Former Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords and retired U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Kelly have formed a coalition of retired military officers that aims to urge political leaders to help prevent gun violence by addressing loopholes in laws and regulations on gun ownership-related background checks. Giffords and Kelly, also a retired NASA astronaut, named the members of the […] More

  • Oshkosh Receives Defense Security Service's Industrial Security Achievement Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh Receives Defense Security Service’s Industrial Security Achievement Award

    Oshkosh Corporation has received the 2016 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award from the Defense Department‘s Defense Security Service for the company’s facility in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oshkosh is among the 42 cleared facilities that received the award for industrial security excellence during the annual National Classification Management Society seminar for the Society of Industrial Security Professionals in Nashville, […] More

  • SAIC, Huntsville City Schools Launch Cyber Academy; John Gully Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC, Huntsville City Schools Launch Cyber Academy; John Gully Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. and the Huntsville, Alabama public school district have jointly launched a cyber educational program under a three-year, $300,000 commitment in an effort to help foster future cyber workers. SAIC and the school system introduced the Cyber Academy initiative at the National Cyber Summit and company cyber professionals will supply cyber curriculum […] More

  • Lockheed Funds Initiative to House Homeless Veterans in Santa Clara - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Funds Initiative to House Homeless Veterans in Santa Clara

    Lockheed Martin has entered a three-year funding commitment to support the All the Way Home program that aims to house more than 700 homeless veterans in Santa Clara, California by Veterans Day 2018. The company said Thursday it has contributed an initial $10,000 to All the Way Home to supply 70 kits that contain personal care items, clothing, cookware and linens as well as […] More

  • Commerce Dept Names CompTIA's David Logsdon to Aerospace Equipment Int'l Trade Advisory Committee - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Commerce Dept Names CompTIA’s David Logsdon to Aerospace Equipment Int’l Trade Advisory Committee

    David Logsdon, CompTIA‘s Space Enterprise Council senior director, has joined the Commerce Department‘s International Trade Advisory Committee on Aerospace Equipment and will serve through the committee’s four-year charter term. The ITAC on Aerospace Equipment works to provide advisory support to the secretary of commerce and the U.S. trade representative on market access, trade barriers and other regional […] More

  • Tom Ridge Assumes 5th Term as US Chamber's National Security Task Force Chairman - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Ridge Assumes 5th Term as US Chamber’s National Security Task Force Chairman

    Tom Ridge, a former Pennsylvania governor and the first secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, will serve a fifth term as the chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’ National Security Task Force. The Chamber said Tuesday Ridge has worked as chairman since 2011 where he supported the task force’s goals to unite stakeholders in homeland and […] More

  • NASA to Demo Graphene Sensors, Other Platforms Under Tech Transfer Program at TechBreakfast - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Demo Graphene Sensors, Other Platforms Under Tech Transfer Program at TechBreakfast

    NASA will present its graphene sensors and three other technology platforms that could be licensed through the agency’s Technology Transfer Program at the TechBreakfast event to be held in Maryland on June 10. The space agency said Thursday molecular absorber coatings from Goddard Space Flight Center as well as SansEc platform and Adaptive Fidelity Shell simulation system from Langley Research […] More