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  • Cubic to Showcase C4ISR Platforms at GEOINT Symposium in Texas; Mike Twyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Showcase C4ISR Platforms at GEOINT Symposium in Texas; Mike Twyman Comments

    Two Cubic business units will demonstrate a range of cross domain, virtual training and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems at an upcoming U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation-hosted symposium in San Antonio, Texas. The company said Wednesday its mission solutions and global defense businesses will showcase the technology offerings at the annual GEOINT Symposium that will be held from […] More

  • Denise Perry Promoted to Full-Time Ensco HR Division Manager - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Denise Perry Promoted to Full-Time Ensco HR Division Manager

    Denise Perry, acting manager of Ensco‘s human resources division since February, has been promoted to manage the division on a full-time basis. Ensco said Wednesday she led efforts to increase the Falls Church, Virginia-based company’s HR efficiency and quality of customer service as part of her previous duties as deputy division manager. Boris Nejikovsky, president of Ensco, said he believes Perry’s […] More

  • Leonardo Subsidiary Wins DSS Award for Counterintelligence Efforts; William Lynn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Subsidiary Wins DSS Award for Counterintelligence Efforts; William Lynn Comments

    A Leonardo subsidiary has received an Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence from the Defense Security Service for its efforts to develop methods against foreign theft of U.S. defense technology. Leonardo DRS has developed techniques to identify malicious communications and worked with other defense contractors to help them implement countermeasures, the company said Wednesday. “We support the tireless work of the DSS by […] More

  • Former CACI Exec Ryan Vervack Appointed CTO of DroneShield's US Subsidiary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former CACI Exec Ryan Vervack Appointed CTO of DroneShield’s US Subsidiary

    Ryan Vervack, former chief technology officer of CACI International‘s government services business, has been appointed to the same position at DroneShield‘s U.S.-based subsidiary. DroneShield said Monday his responsibilities will span across the unmanned aircraft technology firm’s engineering teams in Australia and the U.S. Peter James, chairman of DroneShield, said Vervack joins the company as it aims to expand operations in the […] More

  • Former Army Secretary Eric Fanning Joins CNAS Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Army Secretary Eric Fanning Joins CNAS Advisory Board

    Eric Fanning, former secretary of the U.S. Army, has been appointed to the board of advisers at the Center for a New American Security. He joins other CNAS advisory board members who came from various government, military, academic and private organizations, the Washington-based think tank said Wednesday. CNAS CEO Michele Flournoy said that Fanning has broad leadership experience across the Defense Department and […] More

  • Charley Diaz Named Customer Affairs Director for HII Small Surface Combatant, Coast Guard Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charley Diaz Named Customer Affairs Director for HII Small Surface Combatant, Coast Guard Programs

    Charley Diaz, former CEO of maritime consulting firm Diaz and chief of staff at the U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries as corporate director of customer affairs for the company’s small surface combatants and U.S. Coast Guard programs. The more than 30-year Coast Guard veteran previously supervised an interdisciplinary staff in charge of the service […] More

  • Tech Industry Vet Tarun Loomba Joins Polycom as Solutions Mgmt EVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Industry Vet Tarun Loomba Joins Polycom as Solutions Mgmt EVP

    Tarun Loomba, formerly vice president and general manager of SanDisk‘s computing storage solutions business, has joined communications technology provider Polycom as executive vice president for solutions management. Polycom said Tuesday the more than 20-year technology industry veteran will oversee the company’s worldwide product and services management teams from its headquarters in San Jose, California. “His in-depth experience in hardware, software […] More

  • ManTech's George Pedersen Gets CIA Officers Memorial Foundation Award; Kevin Phillips Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech’s George Pedersen Gets CIA Officers Memorial Foundation Award; Kevin Phillips Comments

    George Pedersen, co-founder, chairman and CEO of ManTech International, has received the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation’s Patriots award in recognition of his commitment to support the CIA’s mission and the country it serves. ManTech said Thursday that John McLaughlin and Jerry Komisar, respectively chairman and president of the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation, presented the award to Pedersen during a company […] More

  • Cubic Units to Showcase C4ISR, Training Products Designed for Special Ops Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Units to Showcase C4ISR, Training Products Designed for Special Ops Forces

    Cubic‘s mission solutions and global defense businesses will participate in the upcoming Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Florida to demonstrate a range of C4ISR and training platforms designed for the SOF community. Cubic said Wednesday it will showcase products such as the Atlas Baseband Kit, satellite communications terminals, data links, networking systems and the Unified Video real-time streaming […] More

  • Homeland Security and Defense Business Council Welcomes Four New Industry Partners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Homeland Security and Defense Business Council Welcomes Four New Industry Partners

    Blue Canopy Group, CACI International, E3 Federal Solutions and SureID have joined the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council in the first quarter of 2017. The council said Monday that its members have taken part in various forums such as round table discussions with leaders of the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the Federal Emergency […] More

  • NASA Kennedy Center Hosts Robotic Programming Competition for Students - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Kennedy Center Hosts Robotic Programming Competition for Students

    NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center held a robotic programming competition that sought to encourage students from U.S. universities and colleges to develop software codes for space exploration robots. The space agency said Wednesday that 20 teams representing 22 minority-serving universities and community colleges participated in the second annual Swarmathon competition held from April 18 to 20 at KSC, while 15 college […] More

  • IES to Present Lifetime Achievement Award for Sales Excellence to Red Hat's Paul Smith - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IES to Present Lifetime Achievement Award for Sales Excellence to Red Hat’s Paul Smith

    Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat‘s North American public sector business, has received the Institute for Excellence in Sales’ 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his leadership and strategic vision in sales. IES said Tuesday it will present the award during the 7th Annual Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony June 6 in line […] More