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  • Battelle to Help CDC Maintain Biological Specimens; Sudip Parikh Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Help CDC Maintain Biological Specimens; Sudip Parikh Comments

    Battelle has been awarded a five-year, $12.6 million contract to help run a national repository of human biological samples for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nonprofit research firm will help CDC maintain blood, tissue, urine and genomic specimens that are stored inside large metal vats at the agency’s CASPIR biostorage facility in […] More

  • Brent Shafer Named Philips North America CEO; Frans van Houten Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brent Shafer Named Philips North America CEO; Frans van Houten Comments

    Brent Shafer has been tapped to serve as the next chief executive officer of Philips North America where he will be responsible for the company’s operations in the healthcare, consumer lifestyle and lighting markets. Shafer succeeds Greg Sebasky who retired Feb. 3 and will report directly to Frans van Houten, Royal Philips CEO, the company […] More

  • Michael Wilmer Appointed Thacher Associates COO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Wilmer Appointed Thacher Associates COO

    Michael Wilmer, a defense sector veteran formerly employed by Booz Allen Hamilton, has been named chief operating officer at enterprise integrity monitoring company Thacher Associates LLC. He brings more than three decades of leadership experience to his new position and will aim to help the organization grow and implement compliance programs for corporate clients, Thacher […] More

  • Barry Salzberg, Deloitte Chief, Joins New Profit Inc.'s Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Barry Salzberg, Deloitte Chief, Joins New Profit Inc.’s Board

    Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd., has joined the board of directors of venture philanthropy and social innovation organization New Profit Inc. Salzberg will support New Profit’s growth strategy and work to help develop new approaches for driving social change such as finding financing vehicles and public-private partnerships, New Profit announced Tuesday. He said that New […] More

  • Autodesk Donates $250M in Resources for White House STEAM Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Autodesk Donates $250M in Resources for White House STEAM Program

    Autodesk will donate $250 million in technology resources to a White House program aimed at helping secondary school teachers prepare students for STEAM careers (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics). The company will provide teachers at more than 27,000 U.S. secondary schools with 3D design software, project-based lessons, training and certifications through its Design the […] More

  • CACI to Help Interior Dept Run Financial, Business Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Help Interior Dept Run Financial, Business Mgmt System

    CACI International will manage system security and support business intelligence reporting work for the Interior Department’s business integration office under a potential five-year, $95 million contract, according to a Jan. 31 FedBizOpps post. DOI aims to leverage software products such as SAP ECC, SAP BusinessObjects and Compusearch PRISM to further develop mobile and light applications, the […] More

  • CGI to Help Install Windows 8.1 on Sweden Transport Agency PCs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Help Install Windows 8.1 on Sweden Transport Agency PCs

    CGI will work with Sweden’s national transport administration to install Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 operating system on computers housed inside 11,000 workplaces across 120 locations in the country. The company will provide the modernization and operation services to Trafikverket under a potential seven-year contract worth up to an estimated $76.9 million, CGI said Tuesday. Sweden’s Trafikverket agency has […] More

  • Kevin Moore: General Dynamics Subsidiary Builds Video Intell System for Australian Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kevin Moore: General Dynamics Subsidiary Builds Video Intell System for Australian Military

    General Dynamics‘ Mediaware subsidiary has supplied a set of portable video exploitation technology to the Australian military for analyzing and reporting of tactical image data. The D-VEX platform is built to integrate with unmanned aerial systems and display live or recorded digital images in the battlefield, General Dynamics said Monday. D-VEX is part of General […] More

  • QinetiQ Runs Mechanical Tests on Intl Submarine Rescue System; Vittorio Vagliani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ Runs Mechanical Tests on Intl Submarine Rescue System; Vittorio Vagliani Comments

    QinetiQ has assessed the structural design of a multinational submarine rescue platform to determine how the system responds to fatigue and fracture problems. The Submarine Rescue System is built for NATO allies such as France, Norway and the U.K. and has undergone a stress-life fatigue analysis by QinetiQ, the company said Monday. Lloyds Register and […] More

  • Dan Keefe: ManTech to Collaborate With Govt Customers on New Tech at Charleston Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Keefe: ManTech to Collaborate With Govt Customers on New Tech at Charleston Facility

    ManTech International has opened a new Charleston, S.C.-based integration center to develop services for defense and homeland security customers. The 12,000-square-foot facility is built for the company to work with Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command clients, local municipal governments, technology companies, and trade and professional groups, ManTech said Tuesday. Dan Keefe, president and chief operating […] More

  • Lockheed Team Delivers Infrared Camera System to NASA; Jeff Vanden Beukel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Team Delivers Infrared Camera System to NASA; Jeff Vanden Beukel Comments

    Lockheed Martin and the University of Arizona have delivered an infrared camera to NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center, where that technology will be installed on the James Webb Space Telescope. The near infrared camera joins three other instruments at the Goddard center and that camera is intended to serve as JWST’s central imaging system, Lockheed said Monday. […] More