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  • ANSI Team Selected for Education Dept's Innovation Partnership Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ANSI Team Selected for Education Dept’s Innovation Partnership Initiative

    The American National Standards Institute will collaborate with the State University of New York and Flatiron School to support a U.S. Education Department initiative that aims to provide low-income students access to new higher education and training models. ANSI said Tuesday the Educational Quality through Innovative Partnerships program seeks to assess the impact of partnerships on the accessibility of education programs for students from […] More

  • NGA, US Geological Survey Solicit Applications from Universities for Geospatial Sciences Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA, US Geological Survey Solicit Applications from Universities for Geospatial Sciences Program

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Geological Survey have begun to solicit applications from universities and schools that are interested to serve as partners of a geospatial sciences program. NGA formed the Centers of Academic Excellence in Geospatial Sciences program with USGS in an effort to establish partnerships with the U.S. academic community in […] More

  • Lockheed Martin, Discovery Education Launch Next Phase of STEM Initiative for Middle Schoolers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin, Discovery Education Launch Next Phase of STEM Initiative for Middle Schoolers

    Lockheed Martin and Discovery Education have launched the next phase of an initiative that seeks to inform middle school students on deep space exploration through science, technology, engineering and math education. The Generation Beyond program is designed to provide an online curriculum with standards-based digital resources for teachers and families that will work to help inspire students from […] More

  • Oracle to Establish Design Tech High School at California Headquarters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle to Establish Design Tech High School at California Headquarters

    Oracle has announced plans to set up a high school at its headquarters in Redwood City, California, in an effort to train and prepare students for design and engineering jobs, ABC7 News reported Friday. Lyanne Melendez writes Oracle will support the construction of the Design Tech High School through its education fund. The computer technology firm […] More

  • Northrop, Embry-Riddle Offer 1st Airworthiness Engineering Graduate Study Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Embry-Riddle Offer 1st Airworthiness Engineering Graduate Study Program

    Northrop Grumman and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have collaborated to offer the first airworthiness engineering graduate study program scheduled to launch in January 2017. Graduates of the program will gain a Certificate of Study in Airworthiness Engineering, Northrop said Wednesday. The specialized technical curriculum is designed to answer the needs of the company’s government, military, civil and commercial aeronautics […] More

  • ULA-Ball Aerospace-Space Foundation Team Launches Student, Intern-Built Rockets & Payloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA-Ball Aerospace-Space Foundation Team Launches Student, Intern-Built Rockets & Payloads

    United Launch Alliance, Ball Aerospace and the Space Foundation have sponsored the launch of two rockets built by ULA interns with payloads that Ball interns and Colorado K-12 students created. ULA — a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin — said Sunday the event included efforts to launch the 50-foot-tall Future Heavy and 10-foot-tall Genesis rockets to simulate real-life missions and encourage students to pursue careers […] More

  • Parsons a Sponsor of Cyber Leadership Program; Biff Lyons Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons a Sponsor of Cyber Leadership Program; Biff Lyons Comments

    Parsons serves as a sponsor of the Business-Higher Education Forum’s Future Cuber Leaders Program, a seven-week program supported by the Office of Naval Research that is held every Wednesday afternoon through July 20. FCLP is designed to provide undergraduate interns opportunities for cyber academic enrichment, leadership development and networking, Parsons said Tuesday. The program is currently in its pilot […] More

  • Leidos Receives 2016 Helios HR Apollo Award for Innovative Technology; Sarah Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Receives 2016 Helios HR Apollo Award for Innovative Technology; Sarah Allen Comments

    Leidos has received recognition during the 10th Annual Helios Apollo Awards for the company’s use of technology for its human resources training program. The company received an award in the innovative technology category for its Massive Open Online Courses designed to train and develop employees in a virtual setting through online learning modules and various learning activities, Leidos said […] More

  • Raytheon Picks 2 Female College Students to Receive Cybersecurity Scholarship Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Picks 2 Female College Students to Receive Cybersecurity Scholarship Funds

    Raytheon and the (ISC)2 nonprofit organization’s Center for Cyber Safety and Education have selected two female college students for educational grants of up to $10,000 each and paid cybersecurity internships at the company. Nicole Krantz, an incoming freshman at George Mason University this fall, and Catherine McLean, a third-year computer science student at Northeastern University, will receive the scholarship […] More

  • NASA Declares Winners of Student Launch, Orbital ATK Awards Prize to Top Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Declares Winners of Student Launch, Orbital ATK Awards Prize to Top Team

    NASA has declared the winners of the Student Launch challenge that had nearly 50 teams of middle, high school and college and university students from 22 states display aerospace and engineering skills to meet mission objectives. Vanderbilt University nabbed the top spot in the competition and received a $5,000 prize from corporate sponsor Orbital ATK, followed by the University […] More

  • NSA, DHS Name Multiple Universities as Centers of Excellence in Cyber Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSA, DHS Name Multiple Universities as Centers of Excellence in Cyber Defense

    Five universities were commended by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security as national centers of academic excellence in cyber defense, HSToday reported Wednesday. The new centers of academic excellence in cyber defense are the University of Delaware, University of Cincinnati’s Information Technology School, University of Missouri in St. Louis, University of West Florida and […] More

  • OPM, Excelsior Sign Agreement to Back Federal Employees' Higher Education Pursuits; Beth Cobert Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OPM, Excelsior Sign Agreement to Back Federal Employees’ Higher Education Pursuits; Beth Cobert Comments

    Excelsior College has inked an agreement with the Office of Personnel Management to assist more than 1 million federal employees along with respective spouses and domestic partners in their individual pursuits of higher education degrees. The collaboration will build on OPM’s efforts to gather new talent and support federal employees’ career development and address government-wide and agency-specific skill requirements, […] More