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  • Bostonia Helps NOAA Extend Silver Spring HQ Lease to 2028; Anita Molino Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bostonia Helps NOAA Extend Silver Spring HQ Lease to 2028; Anita Molino Comments

    Bostonia Partners LLC has worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and General Services Administration to close two leases totaling $258 million for NOAA to remain at its headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. NOAA resides in two buildings at the Silver Spring Metro Center and each lease is for a 15-year term with both set […] More

  • Roger Waesche, COPT President and CEO, Discusses 2014 Growth Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Waesche, COPT President and CEO, Discusses 2014 Growth Opportunities

    Corporate Office Properties Trust has provided guidance for its diluted FFO per share, COPT said Jan. 7. “In 2013, we completed our strategic repositioning initiatives, which greatly improved the quality of our portfolio and the strength of our balance sheet,” said Roger Waesche, Jr., COPT president and CEO. The FFO for 2014 is in the […] More

  • John Chiaramonte Named Senior Program Manager at Mission Critical Partners; Kevin Murray Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Chiaramonte Named Senior Program Manager at Mission Critical Partners; Kevin Murray Comments

    John Chiaramonte has joined Mission Critical Partners as a senior program manager, where he will work to help MCP expand its Next Generation 9-1-1 business. Chiaramonte joins MCP from a lead associate post with Booz Allen Hamilton, a management consulting firm. At Booz Allen, he managed a portfolio of projects supporting the U.S. Department of Transportation‘s National 911 Program and Next Generation 9-1-1 Initiative, […] More

  • Lou Von Thaer of Leidos on Cyber Trends, ISR Collaborations and His Bell Labs Origins - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lou Von Thaer of Leidos on Cyber Trends, ISR Collaborations and His Bell Labs Origins

    Lou Von Thaer started a new chapter of his three-decade GovCon career in June 2013 as president of a business once part of Science Applications International Corp. that eventually became Leidos‘ national security sector. Von Thaer now leads a team of 13,000 professionals in the sector after previously leading 7,000 employees at General Dynamics Advanced […] More

  • Verizon to Add Capacity in Santa Clara Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon to Add Capacity in Santa Clara Data Center

    Verizon Terremark is adding 4 megawatts of power capacity in its Santa Clara, Calif. data center by installing Active Power electrical infrastructure containers in the roof, Data Center Dynamics reported Friday. Yevgeniy Sverdlik writes that the PowerHouse containers are intended to grow capacity without expanding the building and are built with uninterruptible power supply systems, switchgear and monitoring […] More

  • Northrop Helps Cal Poly Open New Cyber Lab; Wes Bush Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Helps Cal Poly Open New Cyber Lab; Wes Bush Comments

    Northrop Grumman has donated approximately $150,000 to California Polytechnic for electronic infrastructure at the school’s new cybersecurity, Mustang News reported Friday. Samantha Sullivan writes that Northrop CEO Wes Bush attended the launch of the new lab along with Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong and other executives from McAfee and Raytheon. The Cal Poly-Northrop Grumman Cyber Lab was built […] More

  • NNSA Receives Final Turbine Blades for Siemens-Built Wind Farm; Judy Marks on Gov't Energy Goals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NNSA Receives Final Turbine Blades for Siemens-Built Wind Farm; Judy Marks on Gov’t Energy Goals

    The National Nuclear Security Administration has received the final wind turbines for a wind farm in Amarillo, Texas that is being built by Siemens Government Technologies, the German conglomerate’s U.S. federal business organization. Siemens has set the operational date for the Pantex Renewable Energy Project as July 31, 2014 — nearly a year after NNSA and […] More

  • Carlos Fernandes Named Director of the Cybersecurity Center at Salient Federal; Bill Parker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carlos Fernandes Named Director of the Cybersecurity Center at Salient Federal; Bill Parker Comments

    Carlos Fernandes has been named director of Salient Federal Solutions’ cybersecurity center of excellence where he will be responsible for the company’s cybersecurity strategy and growing the innovations offered by the CSCoE, Salient said Thursday. Fernandes served as founder, managing principal and CEO of cybersecurity consulting services company Agile Cyber Security Solutions prior to the Salient […] More

  • Chuck Brooks: New Software, Tools Push Agencies to Make Documents Electronic - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chuck Brooks: New Software, Tools Push Agencies to Make Documents Electronic

    Government agencies are increasingly looking to adopt practices of their counterparts in the private sector for taking paper documents and transforming them into an electronic format, according to Chuck Brooks, vice president and client executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Xerox. A former legislative affairs director for DHS’ science and technology directorate, Brooks […] More

  • CSC, HCL Technologies to Create App Modernization Delivery Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC, HCL Technologies to Create App Modernization Delivery Network

    Computer Sciences Corp. and HCL Technologies are partnering to create an application modernization delivery network that is intended to help clients transition into a cloud computing platform. The team’s first delivery centers will be based in Bangalore and Chennai and the companies plan to share cloud application modernization revenue and direct costs, CSC announced Wednesday. “Enterprises today […] More

  • Leonard Genna: L-3's Intl Customers Want 'Live Virtual Constructive' Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonard Genna: L-3’s Intl Customers Want ‘Live Virtual Constructive’ Tech

    L-3 Communications‘ international customers are increasingly seeking to acquire simulation systems that multiple people can participate in as they want to create a virtual battlespace for training, L-3 Link Simulation & Training President Leonard Genna told Defense News in an interview published Monday. Genna described the goal of the “live virtual constructive” scenarios as being able […] More

  • Jeff Trauberman on his Work With Boeing's Cyber Engagement Center & the Role of Commercial Tech in the US Space Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Trauberman on his Work With Boeing’s Cyber Engagement Center & the Role of Commercial Tech in the US Space Program

    Jeff Trauberman oversees a diverse set of programs and projects at Boeing in his role as vice president of space, intelligence and missile defense for government operations. The nearly two-decade company veteran overviewed his roles and responsibilities in a July 2012 conversation with ExecutiveBiz, where he also gave insight into the company’s push for a […] More