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  • Robert Mehrabian: Teledyne to Help NASA Collect Hyperspectral Earth Imagery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Mehrabian: Teledyne to Help NASA Collect Hyperspectral Earth Imagery

    NASA has selected a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary to integrate a hyperspectral imaging technology with the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing platform. Teledyne Brown Engineering will also provide captured imagery to NASA through the multi-year, $15 million contract, the company said Monday. The German Aerospace Center developed the MUSES spectrometer to collect approximately 27 million square miles of […] More

  • Nick van Terheyden Joins Dell Services’ Healthcare Business as Chief Medical Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nick van Terheyden Joins Dell Services’ Healthcare Business as Chief Medical Officer

    Dr. Nick van Terheyden, formerly chief medical information officer at Nuance Communications, has joined Dell Services’ healthcare and life sciences business as chief medical officer. Dell said Monday van Terheyden will report to Sid Nair, vice president and global general manager of HCLS business at Dell Services, and will oversee strategic initiatives for the company’s […] More

  • Assurance Technology Gets $25M Navy Systems Devt Task Order Under OASIS Small Business Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Assurance Technology Gets $25M Navy Systems Devt Task Order Under OASIS Small Business Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Assurance Technology a potential five-year, $24.7 million task order to provide systems development, integration support and technical services for the Space Systems Development Department as SSDD works to develop software definable systems. Assurance Technology secured the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through a competitive procurement process under the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution […] More

  • Colin Powell to Address FireEye Cyber Defense Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Colin Powell to Address FireEye Cyber Defense Summit

    FireEye will host a two-day conference in Washington to discuss best practices related to cybersecurity with corporate executives and chief information security officers. The company said Monday the 2015 FireEye Cyber Defense Summit on Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 will deal with threat intelligence, case studies of data breaches, incident response procedures, malware and technology trends. Among the […] More

  • Eduardo Bellido Joins Thales Alenia Space’s Spanish Subsidiary as CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eduardo Bellido Joins Thales Alenia Space’s Spanish Subsidiary as CEO

    Eduardo Bellido, formerly director at Munich-based OHB System, has joined Thales Alenia Space Espana to replace Juan Garces de Marcilla as chief executive officer. He brings nearly two decades of experience in the aerospace sector to the Spanish subsidiary of Thales Alenia Space and will oversee the company’s strategic initiatives, industrial, finance and corporate development operations, Thales said […] More

  • Arlen Shenkman Promoted to CFO at SAP North America; Jen Morgan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Arlen Shenkman Promoted to CFO at SAP North America; Jen Morgan Comments

    Arlen Shenkman, formerly global head of corporate development at SAP, has been promoted to chief financial officer of SAP North America. During his three years as SAP’s global corporate development chief, Shenkman led the company’s strategic investment efforts and helped the software company acquire Concur, Fieldglass, BusinessObjects, hybris, SuccessFactors, Ariba and Sybase, SAP said Thursday. […] More

  • KBR Wins Magazine Award for Petrochemical Project in Saudi Arabia; Jay Ibrahim Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR Wins Magazine Award for Petrochemical Project in Saudi Arabia; Jay Ibrahim Comments

    KBR has been recognized by Hydrocarbon Processing magazine for its work on a petrochemical complex in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The engineering firm said Thursday it currently serves as project management contractor for the Sadara Chemical initiative and has performed preliminary front-end engineering design and feasibility work for the project. KBR received the award at the International Refining and Petrochemical […] More

  • Orbital ATK Awards $135K Undergraduate Scholarships to 70 Students; David Thompson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Awards $135K Undergraduate Scholarships to 70 Students; David Thompson Comments

    Orbital ATK has awarded a combined $135,000 in scholarships to help the children of the aerospace company’s employees pursue their post-secondary education for this coming academic year. The company said Wednesday Scholarship Management Services selected 70 scholarship recipients based on their test scores, grade average, class ranking, work experience, career objectives and involvement in community and school […] More

  • ThanksUSA Elects Intelligent Decisions’ Rhett Buttler to The Board; Bob Okun Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ThanksUSA Elects Intelligent Decisions’ Rhett Buttler to The Board; Bob Okun Comments

    Rhett Butler, vice president of sales at Intelligent Decisions, has joined the board of directors of non-profit organization ThanksUSA. ThanksUSA also elected to the board Ann E. Dunwoody, a retired general with the U.S. Army; J. Andrew Don, senior vice president and chief financial officer of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corp.; and Suzie […] More

  • Executive Profile: Guy Montminy, Finance SVP for BAE Systems Inc - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Guy Montminy, Finance SVP for BAE Systems Inc

    Guy Montminy serves as senior vice president of finance at BAE Systems Inc. — the British defense contractor’s U.S. subsidiary. He oversees financial management operations of U.S.-based enterprises under the BAE Systems plc portfolio. Prior to this role, he spent four years as vice president of finance for the subsidiary’s electronic systems sector and was responsible for […] More

  • Executive Profile: Doug Lane, Capgemini Government Solutions CEO, President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Doug Lane, Capgemini Government Solutions CEO, President

    Doug Lane is CEO and president of Capgemini Government Solutions. He brings more than three decades of experience in information technology, practice leadership and management consulting to the subsidiary of Capgemini North America. Lane previously worked as a partner at A. T. Kearney for nearly two years before joining Capgemini. He spent three years as a […] More