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  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sponsors AFA CyberPatriot Initiative; Earl Matthews Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sponsors AFA CyberPatriot Initiative; Earl Matthews Comments

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has joined the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot program as its new Cyber Silver corporate sponsor. CyberPatriot is AFA’s education initiative that aims to improve cyber skills among students and help them pursue careers in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, AFA said Thursday. “We are proud to be the newest CyberPatriot corporate […] More

  • MIT-NASA-Boeing Team to Roll Out Systems Engineering Certificate Program; Marc Nance Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIT-NASA-Boeing Team to Roll Out Systems Engineering Certificate Program; Marc Nance Comments

    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has teamed up with NASA and Boeing to launch by summer an online program that seeks to provide the engineering workforce with continuing education and training on systems engineering. MIT Professional Education will deliver four courses under the certificate-based Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems program […] More

  • Lockheed Expands STEM Program to Singapore; Doug Greenlaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Expands STEM Program to Singapore; Doug Greenlaw Comments

    Lockheed Martin has introduced the company’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics program to Singapore in partnership with UN Women Singapore. Lockheed Martin said Monday it hosted a STEM event in Biopolis, Singapore, where more than 300 students engaged with U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Carrie Howe, Facebook’s Claire Deevy and Guo Huili, Institute of Molecular and […] More

  • ULA, Tyvak Ink CubeSat Rideshare Agreement; Tory Bruno Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA, Tyvak Ink CubeSat Rideshare Agreement; Tory Bruno Comments

    United Launch Alliance has selected Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems to serve as an auxiliary payload customer on ULA’s CubeSat rideshare program under a memorandum of understanding between the two companies. Tyvak will be able to provide commercial and U.S. government CubeSat customers, as well as science, technology, engineering and math CubeSat customers access to ULA’s Atlas V […] More

  • Northrop Kicks Off Search for 3 X-47B UAV Pilots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Kicks Off Search for 3 X-47B UAV Pilots

    Northrop Grumman has begun its search for three pilots to operate the Northrop-built X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle. Northrop said in a job notice the selected candidates will work to determine the UAV’s compliance with operational suitability and specification requirements during flight tests. Northrop developed X-47B under the U.S. Navy‘s Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration initiative. The drone is […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Division Awards STEM Grants to Mississippi, Alabama Schools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Division Awards STEM Grants to Mississippi, Alabama Schools

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has awarded grants worth approximately $100,000 to support 25 science, technology, engineering and mathematics projects at elementary, middle and high schools in Alabama and Mississippi. “These grants allow students to implement STEM knowledge into these projects, while having fun in learning and interacting with each other,” Edmond Hughes, vice president […] More

  • Tory Bruno: Boeing-Lockheed JV Unveils CubeSat Rideshare Launch Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tory Bruno: Boeing-Lockheed JV Unveils CubeSat Rideshare Launch Initiative

    United Launch Alliance has introduced a science, technology, engineering and math education program that aims to encourage university students to launch their miniaturized satellites for free onboard the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s future rocket missions. “ULA will offer universities the chance to compete for at least six CubeSat launch slots on two Atlas V missions, with […] More

  • Lockheed’s Stephanie Hill Elected Greater Baltimore Committee Board Chairman; Donald Fry Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Stephanie Hill Elected Greater Baltimore Committee Board Chairman; Donald Fry Comments

    Stephanie Hill, vice president and general manager of ship and aviation systems at Lockheed Martin’s mission systems and training business, has been appointed chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee’s board of directors. She will succeed David Warnock, co-founder and managing partner of Camden Partners, and will work to advance innovation and address issues the private sector […] More

  • Battelle-Purdue University Team to Help Evaluate Army's STEM Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle-Purdue University Team to Help Evaluate Army’s STEM Programs

    The U.S. Defense Department has chosen a Battelle-Purdue University alliance to evaluate and recommend strategies for U.S. Army-run science, technology, engineering and math education programs, The Purdue Exponent reported Wednesday. Sarah Kennedy writes Purdue University received a $5.25 million grant to support the military branch’s Educational Outreach Program in collaboration with Battelle. Louie Lopez, Army’s AEOP cooperative […] More

  • Northrop Grumman, Nat'l Science Teachers Association Unveil STEM Program for Teachers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman, Nat’l Science Teachers Association Unveil STEM Program for Teachers

    Northrop Grumman and the National Science Teachers Association have launched a new education initiative intended to build up the teachers’ science, technology, engineering and math instruction skills. The Northrop Grumman Foundation Teachers Academy is designed to equip middle school science, engineering and technology teachers with an understanding of what skills the future workforce needs, NSTA […] More

  • Lockheed Invests $1M in Fort Worth District’s STEM Programs; Orlando Carvalho Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Invests $1M in Fort Worth District’s STEM Programs; Orlando Carvalho Comments

    Lockheed Martin has allocated $1 million for grants on science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs of the Fort Worth Independent School District. Six additional schools will adopt a STEM curriculum for the school year 2015-2016 through the new investment under the government’s Project Lead The Way program, Lockheed said Wednesday. “This partnership gives our talented workforce the opportunity […] More

  • Northrop Outlines STEM, Environmental Programs in Corporate Responsibility Report; Wes Bush Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Outlines STEM, Environmental Programs in Corporate Responsibility Report; Wes Bush Comments

    Northrop Grumman has detailed its diversity, ethics, educational and environmental programs in the past year in its 2014 corporate responsibility report. The company said Thursday it achieved a 26.2 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and contributed nearly $16 million to fund global programs that seek to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Wes […] More