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Lockheed Martin has delivered the first KC-130J Super Hercules tanker for a U.S. Marine Corps squadron based at the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base in Texas. The Super Hercules was ferried from the company’s facility in Marietta, Ga. to the Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 234 for a formal welcoming ceremony on […] More

A leadership program for veterans developed and launched in January by Exelis, Korn Ferry and Points of Light will kickoff its second session on June 20 and finish June 22 in the Washington metro area.  The three parties will seek applicants for the Leveraging Military Leadership Program through April 11, Exelis announced Monday. Exelis Action […] More

Lockheed Martin has been bestowed with three 2014 Manufacturing Leadership Awards in recognition of the company’s work to cultivate customer relationships, advanced manufacturing and green practices. The awards from the Manufacturing Leadership Council and Frost & Sullivan are intended to recognize companies and individuals for helping lead the future of global manufacturing, Lockheed announced Monday. Awards won by Lockheed […] More

DiversityBusiness.com has ranked Northrop Grumman as the third-best company out of 50 in the U.S. for providing business opportunities to diverse business owners. The website’s list of the top 50 companies is based on an online survey of 1.3 million diversity business owners and work to assess company grants for multicultural suppliers, Northrop announced Friday. Northrop is the […] More

Oracle has named HP as a Diamond level partner of the Oracle PartnerNetwork for the latter company’s expertise in the company’s products and offerings. HP has more than 1,000 Oracle specialists in its team, Oracle announced Friday. HP delivers applications, infrastructure and BPO solutions to thousands of clients worldwide based on Oracle’s applications, technology and […] More

Turner Construction has partnered with Howard University to hold an eight-week course on construction management for 200 students with the goal of helping prepare them to work in the subcontracting market. The Turner School of Construction Management course is a partnership project with the DC Small Business Development Center and will run at the university […] More

Deloitte’s Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC has won the “Deal of the Year Award” for its advisory work in helping LMW Healthcare buy the assets of The Westerly Hospital. DCF was presented the award in the health care and life sciences category at the 8th Annual M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards March 11 in Palm Beach, Fla., […] More

Christopher Kubasik, formerly president and chief operating officer Lockheed Martin until 2012, has been appointed to the board of advisers at Seabury Group, an advisory and investment banking company. “In joining Seabury’s board of advisors, Chris joins a distinguished group that includes Douglas Steenland, formerly CEO of Northwest Airlines and David Turnbull, former CEO of the Swire Group and […] More

John Nieto, a senior scientist at Harris RF Communications, has received the 2014 Harris Fellow Award for his contributions to the company in the fields of engineering and communications technology. Harris said Friday Nieto has contributed to at least 50 company patents and to the development of the Falcon radio system used by the Defense Department, among […] More

CACI International will sponsor the 2014 Digital Leaders 100 Awards’ digital inclusion product or service category that covers organizations that have developed technology for accessing digital public services, Digital by Default News reported Friday. Katy Menczer writes the award was started in 2013 to highlight the use of eServices technologies such as  digital inclusion. Nominations for the top […] More

Cisco Vice President and Treasurer Roger Biscay has joined the DataDirect Networks board of directors, saying he saw an opportunity to help “bring about major change in the way that data is managed the web scale and HPC markets.” The company said that the capital markets, corporate finance and “business resiliency” veteran was one of its […] More

Steven Rust, a Battelle senior research leader, has been selected to receive the nonprofit research and development organization’s  annual Inventor of the Year Award. Rust was chosen for the honor for leading a team that developed a health care analytics tool for big data sets in order to ensure safety of medicines, the company announced Tuesday. […] More