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  • Executive Profile: Mehdi Cherqaoui, Phacil SVP and CFO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Mehdi Cherqaoui, Phacil SVP and CFO

    Mehdi Cherqaoui serves as the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Phacil, where he oversees the company’s financial and administrative affairs. He was previously the finance and mergers and acquisitions VP, and then corporate controller and VP of PAE from October 2012 to June 2015 before joining Phacil. Prior to PAE, Cherqaoui served […] More

  • Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon-ISC Program Seeks to Address Gender Gap in Cyber Career Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon-ISC Program Seeks to Address Gender Gap in Cyber Career Opportunities

    Raytheon and the ISC Foundation have partnered to facilitate a program meant to help increase female college students’ interest in information technology security. ISC and Raytheon plan to award up to $90,000 in scholarships and paid internships over a three-year period through the company’s Women’s Cybersecurity Scholarship program, Raytheon said Thursday. “Not only is there a deep cybersecurity talent […] More

  • Executive Profile: Ray Winn, Partner at Deloitte's Federal Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Ray Winn, Partner at Deloitte’s Federal Practice

    Ray Winn serves as a partner at Deloitte‘s federal practice and also is the lead client service partner for the company’s practice focused on defense acquisition, test and logistics. He also previously held the roles of federal leader and chief operating officer within the federal practice as well as LCSP for the Navy System Command and U.S. Marine Corps practice and lead […] More

  • ICF International Chairman & CEO Sudhakar Kesavan to Headline CONNECTpreneur Spring Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF International Chairman & CEO Sudhakar Kesavan to Headline CONNECTpreneur Spring Forum

    Sudhakar Kesavan, chairman & CEO of ICF International (NASDAQ:ICFI), will conduct a fireside conversation with company founders, executives and venture capitalists at the Spring Forum ’16  on March 1, 2016 at the Falls Church Marriott Fairview Park, VA. The forum will also host a company showcase featuring CyberRx, Deven Software, DisposeRx, LifeFuels, Ostendio, Progow Corp, Skreens, SnipMe Inc., […] More

  • Ron Garan Named Chief Pilot at Space Tourism Company World View - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ron Garan Named Chief Pilot at Space Tourism Company World View

    Ron Garan, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut, has joined World View as chief pilot, Space News reported Tuesday. Jeff Foust writes Garan will be responsible for overseeing commercial flights of high-altitude balloons that the company designed to carry payloads or passengers to an altitude of at least 19 miles. He became an astronaut […] More

  • CACI Recognized for Competitiveness in the Global IT Services Market; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Recognized for Competitiveness in the Global IT Services Market; Ken Asbury Comments

    Fortune magazine has selected CACI International for its annual list of the “most admired companies” around the world. The publication ranked CACI as the seventh-best information technology services provider based on criteria such as global competitiveness, innovation, social responsibility and quality of management, the company said Monday. CACI President and CEO Ken Asbury, a Wash100 inductee, […] More

  • Jeff Geppert Appointed a Battelle Senior Research Lead; Sudip Parikh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Geppert Appointed a Battelle Senior Research Lead; Sudip Parikh Comments

    Jeff Geppert, formerly an internal research coordinator for health and consumer solutions at Battelle, has been named one of 11 senior research leaders at the nonprofit science and research organization. Geppert will oversee the company’s efforts to maintain the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ inventory of hospital and physician quality measures that work to help hospitals […] More

  • Carahsoft, HPE Among FireEye’s 2015 Global Partner Awardees; David DeWalt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, HPE Among FireEye’s 2015 Global Partner Awardees; David DeWalt Comments

    FireEye has named Carahsoft Technology and Hewlett Packard Enterprise as its 2015 Global Distributor of the Year and Global Alliance Partner of the Year awardees in recognition of their efforts to protect their clients’ network infrastructure from cyber threats. Carahsoft and HPE received their respective awards at FireEye’s Momentum annual partner and sales conference that kicked […] More

  • Former Navy Officer Christopher Gidden Joins Stephens as Head of Aerospace & Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Navy Officer Christopher Gidden Joins Stephens as Head of Aerospace & Defense

    Stephens Investment Banking has named Christopher Gidden as its new managing director and head of aerospace and defense. Gidden brings to Stephens prior experience as investment banking executive director and head of aerospace and defense for the EMEA region at Moelis & Company, Stephens said Jan. 25. “Chris joins Stephens with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the aerospace […] More

  • Mark Maybury Named Mitre VP, Chief Security Officer, National Cybersecurity FFRDC Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Maybury Named Mitre VP, Chief Security Officer, National Cybersecurity FFRDC Director

    Mark Maybury, a vice president and chief technology officer at Mitre, has been named VP and chief security officer at the non-profit organization. Maybury will also serve as director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center that Mitre runs for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Mitre said Friday. He will oversee partnerships, outreach programs […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Announces 2016 CyberCenturion Competition Finalists - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Announces 2016 CyberCenturion Competition Finalists

    Northrop Grumman has announced the 10 qualifying teams that will vie for the 2016 CyberCenturion Competition championship. The company said Friday the finalists will face off on April 26 at The National Museum of Computing after they made it through three rounds of cybersecurity challenges in the past four months. Northrop and Cyber Security Challenge U.K. sponsored CyberCenturion 2016, which […] More

  • Michelle Caylor Joins MTSI as HR Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michelle Caylor Joins MTSI as HR Director

    Michelle Caylor, a Calibre Systems veteran, has joined MTSI as the director of human resources. Caylor brings more than 15 years of background in human resource management to MTSI, the company said Friday. She was previously Calibre’s vice president of workforce development and VP of human resources. More