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Top Execs’ Summer Reading Picks

You’ve packed your bags, you’re ready for your big trip. But wait, what about a book? Summer and reading go hand in hand. “There’s a temperate zone in the mind … between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs,” is how someone once put it. So, with summer just around the corner, here’s a round-up [...]

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Texas Outpaces All Other 49 States Combined in New Jobs

Cyber Command, like many other new job creators, chose Texas for the new home of their command center and, according to a Wall St. Journal opinion piece and Governor Rick Perry, Texas has created more new jobs than all other 49 states combined. In the WSJ piece entitled “Soak the Rich”, writers ARTHUR LAFFER and STEPHEN MOORE [...]

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Catching up with … Fulcrum IT’s Jeff Handy

The last time we spoke with Jeff Handy, president of Fulcrum IT, the company was growing over 20 percent a year. Since then, Fulcrum has continued on its winning streak. Over the past year, it’s secured wins at the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), the US Army Intelligence and Security [...]

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Executive Transitions: SRA’s Tim Atkin on his new role as EVP and COO

In the nine and a half years he’s been at SRA, Tim Atkin has been involved in every segment of the company: health, civil, and national security. Now Atkin is settling into his new role as executive vice president and chief operating officer — a role industry insiders are calling a “natural fit.” Here Atkin [...]

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Three ‘Must-Dos’ for Every CFO

Recently, three leading CFOs in the government contracting community received a top distinction: Each was named finalist for the Group/Division CFO of the Year award presented by the Northern Virginia Technology Council. In advance of the awards ceremony — it’s slated for June 3 at the Ritz-Carlton in McLean, Va. — we asked each of [...]

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LaMont Wells of Webster Data Communications: How to retain top talent

Webster Data Communications has been under the radar a number of years but that’s now changing — big time.  A values-based IT solutions provider, the company was recently named one of Washington Technology’s “Fast 50 Government Contractors,” and has been recognized as one of the 50 fastest growing Virginia companies by the Virginia Chamber of [...]

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$48.3 Billion in Spending Offers GovCon Opportunity

The newly created State Fiscal Stabilization Fund is shifting a total of $48.3 billion from the Federal budget to the states in an unprecedented opportunity to realize the stimulus effect envisioned by the current administration. The question of how the states will be able to absorb and spend these dollars, along with the billions of federal [...]

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