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  • CTC CEO Ed Sheehan Receives Pennsylvania Business Leadership Recognition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC CEO Ed Sheehan Receives Pennsylvania Business Leadership Recognition

    Ed Sheehan, president and CEO of Concurrent Technologies Corp., has been named to Pennsylvania Business Central’s annual top 100 list of executives recognized for their business and economic development leadership in the state. CTC opened in August 2017 the Center for the Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing in Pennsylvania under Sheehan’s purview, according to his profile information published Jan. […] More

  • Siemens Plans New STEM Education, Training Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Plans New STEM Education, Training Initiatives

    Siemens‘ philanthropic arm has announced plans to launch new educational and training programs to boost student engagement in science, technology, engineering and math. The company said Thursday these initiatives will replace Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology that ended in 2017 after 19 years of providing annual scholarship opportunities to high school students. Siemens Foundation […] More

  • IBM Vet Sanjay Brahmawar to Join Software AG as CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Vet Sanjay Brahmawar to Join Software AG as CEO

    Sanjay Brahmawar, a 14-year IBM veteran, has been appointed by Software AG‘s supervisory board to serve as CEO of the enterprise software vendor effective Aug. 1. Software AG said Wednesday he will succeed Karl-Heinz Streibich, who is due to retire from the company after 14 years at the helm. Brahmawar currently serves as general manager for global revenue […] More

  • Joseph Averkamp Joins Parsons as VP, Systems Product Sales Lead - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joseph Averkamp Joins Parsons as VP, Systems Product Sales Lead

    Parsons has appointed Joseph Averkamp, formerly chief technology lead at Conduent‘s tolling and intelligent transportation systems business, as a vice president and systems product sales lead. Parsons said Thursday Averkamp will support business development and marketing growth efforts of the company’s systems group within the eastern U.S. region. He holds more than 28 years of industry experience in the areas […] More

  • L3 Delivers Coast Guard's First HC-130J Aircraft Equipped With New Mission System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Delivers Coast Guard’s First HC-130J Aircraft Equipped With New Mission System

    L3 Technologies has completed delivery of an HC-130J aircraft equipped with a Minotaur mission system suite to the U.S. Coast Guard as part of a potential five-year contract. The company said Wednesday its aerospace systems business installed and tested the government-furnished MSS+ on the aircraft in an effort to increase the service branch’s long-range surveillance capacity. An aircraft completion ceremony took […] More

  • ACT I Receives ISO Quality Management Certification; Claudio Monticelli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I Receives ISO Quality Management Certification; Claudio Monticelli Comments

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has obtained independent third-party certification for meeting the International Organization for Standardization’s quality management system standards. The ISO 9001:2015 certificate validates that ACT I delivers products and services that meet customer and regulatory requirements while protecting against quality deficiencies, the company said. “Corey Gomez, our Quality Assurance Manager, assembled the team, […] More

  • Microsoft Receives Air Force, ICE FedRAMP Authorizations for Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Receives Air Force, ICE FedRAMP Authorizations for Azure Govt Cloud

    Microsoft has obtained separate Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certifications from the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Tom Keane, a general manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted Jan. 24 that the Air Force gave Azure Government the Defense Department‘s Impact Level 4 ATO […] More

  • SSL to Conduct Tech Study for USAF Space Enterprise Vision; Richard White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL to Conduct Tech Study for USAF Space Enterprise Vision; Richard White Comments

    Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary will work with the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to conduct a study on new space architectures and related systems in support of the service branch’s Space Enterprise Vision. SEV seeks to ensure resiliency in space defense capabilities through the development of new enterprise-level technology platforms designed to […] More

  • General Atomics EMS to Develop High Power Microwave Capacitators Under Navy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics EMS to Develop High Power Microwave Capacitators Under Navy Contract

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has received a U.S. Navy contract to develop high energy density capacitors designed as components for emerging high power microwave systems. The company said Wednesday it seeks to construct capacitors with reduced size for HPM systems to be used on smaller naval platforms. The contract follows a previous one awarded early January […] More

  • Lockheed to Update Nordic Postal Operator's Sorting Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update Nordic Postal Operator’s Sorting Platform

    Lockheed Martin has received a contract extension from PostNord to update an automated technology platform the Sweden-based postal company uses to sort mails. Lockheed said Wednesday it will integrate the Next Generation Sortation Platform into  PostNord’s current system and supply an artificial intelligence-based technology designed to manage e-commerce packets. Minerva uses AI routines and works to help postal operators […] More

  • Unisys’ PV Puvvada Cites As-a-Service Model as One of Federal Procurement Trends - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ PV Puvvada Cites As-a-Service Model as One of Federal Procurement Trends

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys’ federal systems business, said in an interview that aired Tuesday on Federal News Radio that one of the trends he sees in federal procurement is the government’s increasing interest in as-a-service business model. “It’s generally leading toward if you want to be agile, provide me as service on an agile team […] More