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  • Leidos Recognized for Veterans Recruitment Program; Sarah Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Recognized for Veterans Recruitment Program; Sarah Allen Comments

    Leidos has received an award from Victory Media for the company’s program to hire veterans, soldiers that end their service and military spouses. Victory Media presented the 2016 Military Friendly Employer and Top 100 Employer recognition to Leidos for its Operation MVP military veteran outreach program, Leidos said Wednesday. “We recognize the immense character, work ethic […] More

  • Executive Profile: Akeem Iman-Jones, Boeing Defense Space & Security HR Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Akeem Iman-Jones, Boeing Defense Space & Security HR Director

    Akeem Iman-Jones serves as director of human resources for the business development and strategy and communications organizations at Boeing‘s defense, space and security business. He oversees all aspects of the organizations’ HR programs and brings more than 15 years of human resources operational management experience to the company. Before he joined Boeing in December 2013, […] More

  • Serco to Update US Navy Personnel Readiness Tools; Dan Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco to Update US Navy Personnel Readiness Tools; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco Inc. has received a $15.4 million contract to refresh the tools for the U.S. Navy’s staffing processes in order to help the client prioritize personnel resources. The company said Thursday it will develop process tools and analyze data to assist in the Navy’s Street to Fleet initiative meant to forecast potential staffing requirements. The […] More

  • Jim Lawler on ICF's GovCon Recruiting Agenda and Job Search Advantages for Candidates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Lawler on ICF’s GovCon Recruiting Agenda and Job Search Advantages for Candidates

    Jim Lawler started the latest chapter of his three-decade human resources career in late 2014 when he joined Fairfax, Va.-based ICF International as senior vice president of HR. Lawler previously served as chief HR officer at TASC for four years and designed that company’s HR organization, compensation and benefits programs and HR leadership team. ExecutiveBiz recently […] More

  • David Wennergren: Agencies Need IT-Savvy Acquisition Personnel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Wennergren: Agencies Need IT-Savvy Acquisition Personnel

    David Wennergren, senior vice president of technology at the Professional Services Council, believes government agencies need what he called information technology-savvy acquisition professionals to achieve their goals, FCW reported Friday. Wennergren said the government lacks enough federal technology professionals to perform IT development works at present, Sean Lyngaas and Mark Rockwell report. He told FCW […] More

  • Executive Profile: Sherry Dold, Chief HR Officer at MTSI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Sherry Dold, Chief HR Officer at MTSI

    Sherry Dold serves as the chief human resources officer at Modern Technology Solutions Inc., an employee-owned technology company based in Alexandria, Virginia. She is in charge of strategic planning, compensation and benefits, training and development, recruitment and retention, organizational performance and other related programs and functions. She also oversees policy and process updates at MTSI to […] More

  • Executive Profile: Shira Harrington, Founder & President of Purposeful Hire - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Shira Harrington, Founder & President of Purposeful Hire

    Shira Harrington is the founder and president of Purposeful Hire, an executive recruiting and career consulting company that serves the job market in the Washington metropolitan area and nearby locations. She specializes in career coaching, generational diversity and recruitment and is an active member of the human resources community in Washington. She is a volunteer leader […] More

  • Executive Profile: Julie Gravallese, Mitre VP and Chief HR Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Julie Gravallese, Mitre VP and Chief HR Officer

    Julie Gravallese serves as vice president and chief human resources officer at Mitre and is a 33-year veteran of the nonprofit research and development organization. She previously oversaw the organization’s open systems and information technology centers as well as served as director of geospatial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs. In the latter role, Gravallese managed […] More

  • Executive Profile: Candy Curtin, Serco SVP of Human Resources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Candy Curtin, Serco SVP of Human Resources

    Candy Curtin serves as senior vice president for human resources at Serco and is a more than 20-year HR administration veteran in both public and private sectors. In this role, she oversees all aspects of human capital operation including recruitment, compensation, benefits, compliance, talent management and business support. Curtin joined Serco in 2005 through the […] More

  • Karen Sivek Appointed Ensco HR Division Manager - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Karen Sivek Appointed Ensco HR Division Manager

    Karen Sivek has been named division manager for human resources at Ensco after serving in the post on an acting basis since November 2014. Sivek, a 17-year company veteran, will be responsible for coordinating the organization’s HR programs, Ensco said Thursday. She joined the company in 1998 as an HR database specialist and later became […] More

  • Debra Fiori to Succeed David Goodrich as Parsons' Chief HR Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Debra Fiori to Succeed David Goodrich as Parsons’ Chief HR Officer

    Debra Fiori, current vice president of human resources at Parsons‘ transportation group, will take the role of corporate vice president and global talent director and succeed David Goodrich on Feb. 2. The company said Monday Flori has more than 20 years of human resources and talent management experience at companies such as RTKL Associates and Danaher Tool Group. She previously […] More

  • Executive Profile: Shirl Jenkins, EVP and Chief HR Officer at IntelliDyne - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Shirl Jenkins, EVP and Chief HR Officer at IntelliDyne

    Shirl Jenkins serves as executive vice president and chief human resources officer at IntelliDyne and oversees strategic development and senior management functions for the HR organization. Jenkins has led IntelliDyne’s human resource recruitment, retention and corporate culture expansion efforts since she joined the firm in 2009. IntelliDyne credits its industry awards such as the Helios Apollo HR Award for Innovative Employee Development & Engagement Practices, Alliance for […] More