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  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sponsors AFA CyberPatriot Initiative; Earl Matthews Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sponsors AFA CyberPatriot Initiative; Earl Matthews Comments

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has joined the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot program as its new Cyber Silver corporate sponsor. CyberPatriot is AFA’s education initiative that aims to improve cyber skills among students and help them pursue careers in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, AFA said Thursday. “We are proud to be the newest CyberPatriot corporate […] More

  • MIT-NASA-Boeing Team to Roll Out Systems Engineering Certificate Program; Marc Nance Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIT-NASA-Boeing Team to Roll Out Systems Engineering Certificate Program; Marc Nance Comments

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has teamed up with NASA and Boeing to launch by summer an online program that seeks to provide the engineering workforce with continuing education and training on systems engineering. MIT Professional Education will deliver four courses under the certificate-based Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems program […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Division Awards STEM Grants to Mississippi, Alabama Schools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Division Awards STEM Grants to Mississippi, Alabama Schools

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has awarded grants worth approximately $100,000 to support 25 science, technology, engineering and mathematics projects at elementary, middle and high schools in Alabama and Mississippi. “These grants allow students to implement STEM knowledge into these projects, while having fun in learning and interacting with each other,” Edmond Hughes, vice president […] More

  • Mitre to Support Auburn University's Drone Pilot Training Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre to Support Auburn University’s Drone Pilot Training Program

    Auburn University has partnered with Mitre to carry out a training program for unmanned aerial system operators, Tech Alabama reported Tuesday. Travis Leder writes Mitre will help the university’s UAS flight school to familiarize itself with drone-related regulations established by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Additionally, Mitre and the University of Virginia have collaborated to build […] More

  • NASA Taps 5 Institutions to Promote STEM Education at Minority-Serving Colleges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps 5 Institutions to Promote STEM Education at Minority-Serving Colleges

    NASA has chosen four community colleges to increase the number of classes offering science, technology, engineering and math courses at institutions serving minority students. The Baltimore City Community College, Napa Valley College, Queensborough Community College and Santa Monica College will each receive up to $250,000 in annual funds over three years under the Minority University Research […] More

  • Raytheon, SMU Form Cyber Research Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, SMU Form Cyber Research Partnership

    Raytheon and Southern Methodist University have formed a partnership to collaborate on research, offer internship opportunities and support other education initiatives in the field of cybersecurity, the Dallas Business Journal reported Friday. Danielle Abril writes the partnership builds on Raytheon’s work with SMU’s Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security at the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering. Fred […] More

  • Intel's Capital Org Picks 8 Education Tech Startups for Accelerator Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel’s Capital Org Picks 8 Education Tech Startups for Accelerator Program

    Intel’s global investment arm has selected eight startups to receive up to $100,000 each in funds to further develop their educational technology platforms under an accelerator program. The Intel Education Accelerator is a four-month initiative that seeks to provide mentorship to companies and allow them to carry out pilot testing of their educational tools in schools, Intel […] More

  • Boeing Grants $30M in STEM Investment to Museum of Flight; Ray Conner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Grants $30M in STEM Investment to Museum of Flight; Ray Conner Comments

    Boeing Co. and the family of the company’s founder William Boeing Jr. have donated a combined $30 million in investments for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education to the Museum of Flight, Tukwila Reporter reported Friday. Dean Radford writes the donation is meant to aid in the museum’s goal to expand the number of students […] More

  • Sandy Carter: IBM Launches Programs to Train Students, Professionals on Cloud App Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sandy Carter: IBM Launches Programs to Train Students, Professionals on Cloud App Development

    IBM has invested in several educational programs meant to encourage university students, entrepreneurs and information technology professionals to learn how to develop cloud computing applications with IBM technology. The company said Wednesday it launched the Academic Initiative for Cloud to incorporate the Bluemix platform into cloud development curricula at 210 universities worldwide. The program offers the universities access to IBM’s instructional materials, […] More

  • ULA-Ball Aerospace Event Features Rockets, Payloads Built by Students, Interns - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA-Ball Aerospace Event Features Rockets, Payloads Built by Students, Interns

    The United Launch Alliance and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Student Rocket Launch event featured sport rockets and payloads built by students and interns as part of efforts to promote science, technology, engineering and math careers. ULA said Saturday interns at the two companies and K-12 students from Colorado worked with mentors to design, build and test […] More