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  • Mitre Appoints 5 to Visiting Fellows Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Appoints 5 to Visiting Fellows Program

    Mitre has appointed five individuals to the nonprofit company’s Visiting Fellows Program that aims to help address complex national problems. The nonprofit said Thursday its newly appointed visiting fellows possess a background in the organization’s strategic focus areas of national defense, cybersecurity and health. Richard Byrne, senior vice president of programs and technology at Mitre, said the […] More

  • Darius Adamczyk to Become Honeywell Chairman in April; Duncan Angove Named Independent Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Darius Adamczyk to Become Honeywell Chairman in April; Duncan Angove Named Independent Director

    Darius Adamczyk, president and CEO of Honeywell, will succeed the retiring Dave Cote as chairman by the end of April. “The board concluded that Darius will provide decisive strategic leadership and strong execution of Honeywell’s significant portfolio change and deployment of our core technological strengths related to software, data analytics and the industrial internet of […] More

  • SPA Adds Former Stratcom Chief Cecil Haney to Board; William Vantine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SPA Adds Former Stratcom Chief Cecil Haney to Board; William Vantine Comments

    Cecil Haney, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and former head of the U.S. Strategic Command, has joined Systems Planning and Analysis‘ board of directors. SPA CEO and President William Vantine said in a press release that Haney brings to the company his experience in military operations, defense acquisition, nuclear deterrence, missile defense, space, cyber and plans, policy and requirements. […] More

  • Michael Niggel, Neil Albert, Claudio Monticelli Speak at ACT I’s 20th Anniversary Celebration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Niggel, Neil Albert, Claudio Monticelli Speak at ACT I’s 20th Anniversary Celebration

    Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, addressed a crowd of approximately 200 attendees during the company’s 20th anniversary celebration on Jan. 20 at Fort Myer in Virginia. Niggel discussed ACT I’s efforts to deliver total acquisition management and foreign military sales platforms and services to government clients across defense, health care and homeland […] More

  • Telos VP Paul Capasso Named to AFC4A Cyberspace Operations & Support Hall of Fame - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos VP Paul Capasso Named to AFC4A Cyberspace Operations & Support Hall of Fame

    Paul Capasso, a 33-year U.S. Air Force veteran and vice president of strategic programs at Telos, has been selected for the Air Force Command, Control, Communications and Computers Association’s Cyberspace Operations and Support Hall of Fame. The retired major general continued to support multiple efforts at USAF and the Defense Department after he retired from military […] More

  • CA Technologies Appears in Ethisphere's 'Most Ethical Companies' List for 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CA Technologies Appears in Ethisphere’s ‘Most Ethical Companies’ List for 2018

    CA Technologies has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s 2018 World’s Most Ethical Companies list for the third consecutive year. The company said Monday it is among three honorees in the software and services category. Ethisphere used its Ethics Quotient framework to assess companies in the competency areas of ethics and compliance program; corporate citizenship and responsibility; culture of ethics; […] More

  • Northrop Managers Win Awards at 2018 Black Engineer of the Year Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Managers Win Awards at 2018 Black Engineer of the Year Conference

    Northrop Grumman‘s Kathryn Hamilton and Chandria Poole have received awards at the annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards ceremony that recognized excellence in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. The BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference took place in Washington, D.C. from Feb. 8 to 10, Northrop said Monday. Hamilton, an engineering program manager within Northrop’s […] More

  • Thomas Manning Named Dun & Bradstreet Board Chairman, Interim CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomas Manning Named Dun & Bradstreet Board Chairman, Interim CEO

    Thomas “Tom” Manning, formerly lead director at Dun & Bradstreet, has been named chairman of the board and interim CEO of the Short Hills, New Jersey-based commercial information provider. Manning’s appointment comes after Dun & Bradstreet CEO and Board Chairman Robert Carrigan decided to step down from his roles, the company said Monday. The board’s nominating […] More

  • Leidos Named to Ethisphere's 'Most Ethical Companies' List; Roger Krone Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Named to Ethisphere’s ‘Most Ethical Companies’ List; Roger Krone Comments

    The Ethisphere Institute has included Leidos in the nonprofit organization’s 2018 list of most ethical companies around the world. Leidos said Monday it is one of the 135 companies that have received recognition from the institute for their standards and practices in ethics. “Today’s increasingly complex world requires that each of us have an even greater focus on ethical behavior, […] More

  • IBM Vet Lindsay-Rae McIntyre Named Microsoft Chief Diversity Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Vet Lindsay-Rae McIntyre Named Microsoft Chief Diversity Officer

    Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, a more than two-decade veteran of IBM, has joined Microsoft as chief diversity officer. McIntyre will lead Microsoft’s cross-company efforts to promote cultural diversity in the workplace and establish partnerships with external organizations to help drive inclusion and diversity in the technology field, Microsoft said Sunday. She will perform her new duties at Microsoft’s office in Redmond, Washington, and […] More

  • NASA Seeks Grant Applications for University Space Tech Research Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Grant Applications for University Space Tech Research Projects

    NASA plans to award up to $600,000 over three years to university-led research projects that aim to address “high-priority” technology areas of interest to U.S. space programs. The space agency said Saturday its Space Technology Mission Directorate seeks proposals from accredited universities through the Early Career Faculty appendix of the “Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration and Infusion 2018” solicitation, […] More

  • Treasury Dept Vet James Mackie Joins EY in Director Role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Treasury Dept Vet James Mackie Joins EY in Director Role

    James Mackie, former director of the Treasury Department‘s Office of Tax Analysis, has joined Ernst and Young as co-director of the company’s quantitative economics and statistics group. The more than 30-year Treasury veteran will lead the Washington, D.C.-based QUEST group with  Robert Carroll, said Thursday. In his previous role, Mackie led OTA’s efforts to analyze and produce reports on […] More