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  • Leidos to Support Marine Corps Marathon as Presenting Sponsor; Roger Krone Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Support Marine Corps Marathon as Presenting Sponsor; Roger Krone Comments

    Leidos will serve as a presenting sponsor of the 42nd Marine Corps Marathon to be held on Oct. 22 in Arlington, Virginia. Approximately 30,000 runners participate each year in the 26.2-mile journey, also known as the People’s Marathon, coordinated by the MCM Organization and the U.S. Marine Corps, Leidos said Wednesday. “The Marine Corps Marathon […] More

  • Battelle-Funded Environmental Center Opens in Ohio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle-Funded Environmental Center Opens in Ohio

    KIPP Columbus has unveiled a Battelle-sponsored environmental center in the academic institution’s Columbus, Ohio-based campus to offer afterschool and community education programs. The center is built through a $3 million grant the research and development company awarded in 2014, Battelle said Wednesday. KIPP is a network of free, open enrollment public schools that provides support to students in underserved communities. Battelle […] More

  • Cubic to Present Combat Training Systems at International Defense Exhibition; Dave Buss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Present Combat Training Systems at International Defense Exhibition; Dave Buss Comments

    Cubic will showcase a range of combat training systems and service offerings at the 25th International Defense Industry Exhibition MSPO that will take place in Kielce, Poland from Sept. 5 to 8. The company said Wednesday it will exhibit live training; performance-based training; live, virtual, constructive and gaming training; and augmented reality and geometric pairing platforms during […] More

  • Narendra Gupta Elected Red Hat Board Chair - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Narendra Gupta Elected Red Hat Board Chair

    Narendra Gupta, co-founder and managing director of investment firm Nexus Venture Partners, has been named chairman of the board of directors at open source software provider Red Hat. Red Hat said Tuesday Gupta has served on the company’s board since 2005 and succeeds H. Hugh Shelton, who retired after seven years of chairmanship. Gupta co-founded Integrated Systems […] More

  • Boeing Pledges $1M for Harvey Disaster Relief - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Pledges $1M for Harvey Disaster Relief

    Boeing has pledged to give the American Red Cross a $1 million donation through the aerospace and defense contractor’s charitable trust to assist Texas communities hit by Hurricane Harvey. The company said Tuesday it will match employee contributions made to the humanitarian organization’s disaster relief efforts in the aftermath of storm. “Our thoughts are with […] More

  • Army Unveils List of Top Industry Suppliers for 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Unveils List of Top Industry Suppliers for 2017

    The U.S. Army has released this year’s Superior Supplier Incentive Program list that ranks the top industry suppliers for the military in 2017 based on cost, schedule, technical performance, management, regulatory compliance and small business utilization. The service branch announced Tuesday that SSIP serves as a basis for companies to learn and improve on the areas that factor into their overall performance […] More

  • Knight Point Systems Promotes GovCon Vet Darin Stolte to Service Delivery VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Knight Point Systems Promotes GovCon Vet Darin Stolte to Service Delivery VP

    Darin Stolte, formerly a general manager at Knight Point Systems, has been promoted to vice president of service delivery at the Reston, Virginia-based information technology services contractor. Stolte will oversee contracts staff and general managers as he works to monitor project metrics on a monthly basis and facilitate service delivery across the company’s contracts, Knight […] More

  • Jacobs Donates to Red Cross for Hurricane Harvey Recovery Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Donates to Red Cross for Hurricane Harvey Recovery Support

    Jacobs Engineering Group has donated $25,000 to the American Red Cross in support of recovery efforts in Texas amid the impact of Hurricane Harvey. Donations to the organization aim to cover food, clothing, shelter and personal services for people affected by the storm, Jacobs announced Monday. “Our thoughts are with our employees who were in Hurricane Harvey’s path,” […] More

  • DSA Named to Inc. Magazine’s 2017 Fast-Growth Company List; Fran Pierce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSA Named to Inc. Magazine’s 2017 Fast-Growth Company List; Fran Pierce Comments

    Data Systems Analysts has been named to Inc. magazine’s list of 5,000 U.S. fastest-growing companies for the ninth time. The Trevose, Pennsylvania-based information technology services contractor ranked 3517th on the magazine’s 2017 list and recorded 88 percent in sales growth over a three-year period, DSA said in an Aug. 16 news release. The company also made […] More

  • Aviation, Logistics Vet Gabrielle Costigan Named CEO of BAE’s Australian Arm - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aviation, Logistics Vet Gabrielle Costigan Named CEO of BAE’s Australian Arm

    Gabrielle Costigan, formerly CEO of Asia at logistics and supply chain firm Linfox International Group, has been appointed CEO of BAE Systems’ Australian business. Costigan will join the company on Oct. 2 and will succeed Glynn Phillips as CEO of BAE Systems Australia in March 2018 following a global transition initiative, the company said Monday. […] More

  • Intelsat CEO Stephen Spengler Named a Commissioner of UN Broadband Advocacy Group - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelsat CEO Stephen Spengler Named a Commissioner of UN Broadband Advocacy Group

    Intelsat CEO Stephen Spengler has been appointed a commissioner of a United Nations-backed organization that aims to advance the use of broadband technology at developing countries and underserved communities. Spengler has indicated he will support the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development’s efforts to collaborate with the public and private sectors to help create a “digitally […] More

  • USMC Vet Troy Mattern Joins Motorola Solutions as Product, Service Cybersecurity Lead - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USMC Vet Troy Mattern Joins Motorola Solutions as Product, Service Cybersecurity Lead

    Troy Mattern, a more than 20-year U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former vice president of cybersecurity at Zurich Insurance, has been named head of cybersecurity for products and services at Motorola Solutions. Mattern will oversee a team of leaders on risk assessment, cybersecurity strategy and prioritization aspects across the company’s networks, devices, software and services, […] More