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  • Boeing to Invest $300M in Workforce Devt, Charitable Initiatives; Dennis Muilenburg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Invest $300M in Workforce Devt, Charitable Initiatives; Dennis Muilenburg Comments

    Boeing has committed to invest an additional $300 million in employee-related and charitable initiatives following the passage of a tax reform bill by Congress. Chicago-based Boeing said Thursday it will allocate $100 million to charity work in support of education, communities, veterans and military personnel. The aerospace and defense company also plans to spend $100 million on […] More

  • Northrop Backs Cyber, STEM Education Programs at U.S. Naval Academy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Backs Cyber, STEM Education Programs at U.S. Naval Academy

    Northrop Grumman has invested an undisclosed sum to help expand the U.S. Naval Academy’s cyber, science, technology, engineering and math programs. The company and its philanthropic arm have also donated more than $21 million to support strategic priorities of USNA since 2001, Northrop said Tuesday. The Northrop Grumman Foundation is supporting USNA’s Cybersecurity Capstone Project this academic school year […] More

  • CrowdStrike Establishes Own Foundation to Support Cybersecurity and AI Areas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CrowdStrike Establishes Own Foundation to Support Cybersecurity and AI Areas

    CrowdStrike has announced the inauguration of its own foundation dedicated to developing next generation talent and research in the areas of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. The company said Tuesday the CrowdStrike Foundation will fund scholarships and research for students and scientists studying cybersecurity and AI. The foundation will also provide pro-bono security software for non-profits, journalists and activists […] More

  • Boeing Pledges $50M in Charitable Grants for NonProfits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Pledges $50M in Charitable Grants for NonProfits

    Boeing has pledged to provide more than $50 million in grants to approximately 500 nonprofit organizations across 50 countries. The grants package will fund initiatives through 2018 and will augment Boeing’s expected $117 million in company and employee contributions to other charitable causes, the company said Thursday. The new investments will bring the company’s total community contributions in 2017 to approximately […] More

  • CAE’s Gene Colabatistto Speaks at USC Viterbi's 2017 Scholarship & Fellowship Dinner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE’s Gene Colabatistto Speaks at USC Viterbi’s 2017 Scholarship & Fellowship Dinner

    Gene Colabatistto, president of CAE’s defense and security group, was one of the featured speakers at the 2017 Scholarship and Fellowship Dinner hosted Wednesday by the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering. Colabatistto is a USC alumnus who established the Colabatistto Family Scholarship in 2015 with his wife Connie, USC Viterbi said Friday. “Going […] More

  • SOSi Partners With Non-Profit Dog Tag for Army Ten-Miler; Julian Setian Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOSi Partners With Non-Profit Dog Tag for Army Ten-Miler; Julian Setian Comments

    SOSi International will showcase Dog Tag Inc. at the Army Ten-Miler Exposition Hall and Finish-Line Hooah Tent Zone in the company’s partnership with the non-profit organization focused on the reintegration and entrepreneurship of service-disabled veterans. The company said Wednesday that it is a major sponsor of the ATM event this week where the SOSi running […] More

  • Rebecca Singhavong, VP of Finance at ViON Corp., Advisory Board member at 'Our Military Kids' non-profit organization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rebecca Singhavong, VP of Finance at ViON Corp., Advisory Board member at ‘Our Military Kids’ non-profit organization

    “When a parent’s deployment or battle injury brings stress to a child, it’s amazing what simple activities–like ballet or baseball-can do. Help us engage them, encourage them…empower them.” OCT. 4, 2017 —Our Military Kids, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, supports children of deployed National Guard and Reserve and Wounded Warriors from all service branches. Grants […] More

  • Siemens Donates to Hire Heroes USA for Military Vet Employment Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Donates to Hire Heroes USA for Military Vet Employment Services

    Siemens‘ philanthropic arm has donated $30,000 to the Hire Heroes USA nonprofit organization that offers job sourcing and coaching support services for military veterans, spouses and service members transitioning to civilian life. Two-thirds of the donation will be designated to a presenting sponsorship of the 2017 Marine Corps Marathon and remaining money will go toward a […] More

  • BlackBerry to Donate Crisis Communication Tech for American Red Cross Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry to Donate Crisis Communication Tech for American Red Cross Missions

    Blackberry has extended a partnership with the American Red Cross to continue support for the nonprofit organization’s disaster response missions with a company-made emergency communication platform. Red Cross plans to deploy the AtHoc system to almost 500 branches nationwide as part of efforts to facilitate communications between the organization and its staff members, government agencies and volunteers in […] More

  • Boeing Supports Construction of Doc's Friends B-29 Hangar & Education Hub; Leanne Caret Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Supports Construction of Doc’s Friends B-29 Hangar & Education Hub; Leanne Caret Comments

    Boeing has partially sponsored a $6.5 million project of Wichita, Kansas-based nonprofit organization Doc’s Friends to build an interactive B-29 Doc hangar and education center. Executives from Doc’s Friends, Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems broke ground on the 32,000-square-foot center that will provide an opportunity for visitors to experience B-29 and learn about science, technology, engineering and math related […] More

  • Cisco Donates Tech, Expertise to Mercy Corps Humanitarian Aid Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Donates Tech, Expertise to Mercy Corps Humanitarian Aid Programs

    Cisco has pledged to donate expertise, technology and advisory services to Mercy Corps as part of a five-year, $10 million collaborative effort that seeks to accelerate the nonprofit organization’s delivery of humanitarian aid and development assistance worldwide. The partnership aims integrate digital platforms into programs that work to help improve quality of life of people facing crisis […] More

  • Boeing Pledges $1M for Harvey Disaster Relief - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Pledges $1M for Harvey Disaster Relief

    Boeing has pledged to give the American Red Cross a $1 million donation through the aerospace and defense contractor’s charitable trust to assist Texas communities hit by Hurricane Harvey. The company said Tuesday it will match employee contributions made to the humanitarian organization’s disaster relief efforts in the aftermath of storm. “Our thoughts are with […] More