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  • DARPA to Host Live Event for Spectrum Collaboration Challenge Finale in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Live Event for Spectrum Collaboration Challenge Finale in 2019

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a live event next year for the finale of a three-year collaborative machine intelligence competition designed to mitigate challenges related to spectrum scarcity. DARPA said Tuesday it will host the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge finale event simultaneously with the 2019 Mobile World Congress Americas annual conference in partnership […] More

  • Carlos Del Toro Elected White House Fellows Foundation & Association President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carlos Del Toro Elected White House Fellows Foundation & Association President

    Carlos Del Toro, president and CEO of SBG Technology Solutions, has been elected president of the White House Fellows Foundation and Association. Del Toro will be a part of the President’s Commission on White House Fellows and aims to help increase collaboration between alumni, commissioners, fellows and stakeholders who support the White House Fellows program, SBG said […] More

  • Inmarsat's Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Named MSUA Board Member for 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Named MSUA Board Member for 2018

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has been reappointed to serve on the Mobile Satellite Users Association’s board of directors. MSUA works to promote exchange of ideas, information and news among providers and customers of mobility communications, navigation and safety platforms, the association said Thursday. Other individuals elected to the MSUA […] More

  • Bill Phelps, Adam Sohn Take Lockheed Comms VP Roles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Phelps, Adam Sohn Take Lockheed Comms VP Roles

    Bill Phelps, former director of worldwide media relations at Lockheed Martin, has been appointed vice president for external communications of the company. Lockheed said Wednesday it also named Adam Sohn, former director of strategic communications at Amazon‘s devices and services business, as VP of space communications. Phelps will succeed Nettie Johnson, who will retire from by the end of […] More

  • INSA Names 26 Members of Newly Formed Advisory Committee - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Names 26 Members of Newly Formed Advisory Committee

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has created an advisory committee to offer recommendations and guidance on events, policies and other matters related to INSA and its charitable organization. INSA said Tuesday the panel consists of 26 members who have held senior-level roles within the government or industry and previously served on former INSA advisory […] More

  • Fortune Ranks CACI on World's Most Admired Companies List for 2018, Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fortune Ranks CACI on World’s Most Admired Companies List for 2018, Ken Asbury Comments

    Fortune magazine has ranked CACI International among the world’s most admired companies for 2018 in recognition of the latter’s reputation within the industry as a business leader, products and services provider. CACI said Tuesday it was ranked seventh overall on the Fortune list and fifth among all companies under the information technology services category for […] More

  • Dan Cooper to Serve as CEO of Xerox's Global Imaging Systems Subsidiary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Cooper to Serve as CEO of Xerox’s Global Imaging Systems Subsidiary

    Dan Cooper, president of Xerox‘s Global Imaging Systems subsidiary, has been appointed to serve as CEO of the subsidiary once Tom Salierno retires from the position in April. Xerox said Friday Cooper is a nearly two-decade GIS veteran and previously served as president of information technology services provider Electronic Systems Inc., which he helped advance into a […] More

  • Former Exelis, AIA CEO David Melcher Nominated to Cubic Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Exelis, AIA CEO David Melcher Nominated to Cubic Board

    David Melcher, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, has been nominated to join the board of directors at Cubic. Cubic said Friday Melcher will bring decades of experience working with military and government leaders along with a background in finance, program management and strategy development […] More

  • Jeff Murter: Alion to Help Army Counter CBRNE Threats Under Potential $8.3B IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Murter: Alion to Help Army Counter CBRNE Threats Under Potential $8.3B IDIQ

    Alion Science and Technology will assist the U.S. Army in efforts to research and develop weapons against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats under a 10-year, $8.3 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Thursday it will vie for task or delivery orders to provide CBRNE radiological and nuclear defense systems along with information systems for warfighters […] More

  • Kristin Morico Named AECOM EHS Mgmt Strategic Executive Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kristin Morico Named AECOM EHS Mgmt Strategic Executive Director

    Kristin Morico, former leader of global environmental programs at General Electric, has been appointed environmental health and safety management strategic executive director at AECOM‘s design and consulting services unit. AECOM said Tuesday Morico will be responsible for establishing an consulting business that will integrate the firm’s component services across different business sectors such as the provision of […] More

  • Former Air Force Scientist Robert Peterkin Named Director of General Atomics' Albuquerque, NM Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Air Force Scientist Robert Peterkin Named Director of General Atomics’ Albuquerque, NM Office

    Robert Peterkin, a veteran of the Air Force Research Laboratory and former vice president at Science Applications International Corp., has joined General Atomics as director of the company’s office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. General Atomics said Friday Peterkin will help coordinate and implement technology strategies to meet future customer demands and identify opportunities within the directed […] More

  • Kroll Appoints 4 New Managing Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kroll Appoints 4 New Managing Directors

    Kroll has named Cem Ozturk, Katy Shanahan, Greg Michaels and Fernanda Barroso as managing directors for four of the professional investigative and risk consulting services provider’s offices. The company said Thursday Ozturk and Shanahan, former associate managing directors at Kroll’s investigations and disputes business, will respectively manage operations in Singapore and Massachusetts. Michaels, former associate managing director for the […] More