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  • Booz Allen EVP Karen Dahut Nominated to Tech Data Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen EVP Karen Dahut Nominated to Tech Data Board

    Karen Dahut, an executive vice president and civil commercial group lead at Booz Allen Hamilton, has been nominated to serve on the board of directors of information technology company Tech Data. Tech Data said Wednesday it will include Dahut’s nomination for the role of independent director in a proxy statement to shareholders. “Her global leadership experience in next-generation technologies, […] More

  • Trump to Sign Executive Order Reviewing Highly Skilled H-1B Visa Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trump to Sign Executive Order Reviewing Highly Skilled H-1B Visa Program

    U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order in Wisconsin Tuesday that will order a review of the H-1B highly-skilled worker immigration visa program, a move that the White House says will encourage tech companies to hire American workers instead of cheaper foreign labor. The “buy American, hire American” directive does not make any immediate changes […] More

  • Leidos to Provide Army UAS Support Services; Tim Reardon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Provide Army UAS Support Services; Tim Reardon Comments

    Leidos will offer global technical services and field support to the U.S. Army‘s tactical unmanned aircraft systems, universal ground control stations and universal ground data terminals through the company’s position under a potential $900 million contract awarded earlier this month. The company said Wednesday it will vie for contract work in the areas of non-repetitive development, analysis and corrective action, […] More

  • Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Unveils Initiative for Gov't Data Accessibility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Unveils Initiative for Gov’t Data Accessibility

    Steve Ballmer, a former CEO of Microsoft, has launched an initiative that aims to boost the accessibility of government data on tax revenues, expenditures and spending outcomes. The USAFacts project works to collect data from approximately 130 government statistical databases to create products such as a document modeled after the 10-K form that companies file with the Securities […] More

  • Evan Scott Builds ESGI For The Federal Contracting Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Evan Scott Builds ESGI For The Federal Contracting Marketplace

    Seventeen years ago, Evan Scott decided to focus on what he really loves, recruiting, and create ESGI, a firm that specializes in the federal contracting business. Although he had spent the previous 21 years building an executive search firm primarily in the commercial sector, Scott thought that the post 9/11 world provided a unique opportunity. […] More

  • VSE Unit to Overhaul Engines of State Dept's UH-1H Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE Unit to Overhaul Engines of State Dept’s UH-1H Fleet

    A business unit of VSE has received a potential five-year, $16.6 million contract to overhaul, modify and repair engines in the State Department‘s fleet of 85 UH-1H “Huey” helicopters. Prime Turbines will perform work on T53-L-703 engines in support of the aviation office at DoS’ Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, the company said Tuesday. Paul Goffredi, president and chief operating officer of VSE’s aviation […] More

  • GSA Posts RFI on Planned EIS Transition of Small Agencies, Tribal Gov'ts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Posts RFI on Planned EIS Transition of Small Agencies, Tribal Gov’ts

    The General Services Administration has issued a request for information on plans to transition small agencies and tribal government customers from expiring telecommunications and network services contracts to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions procurement vehicle. GSA said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice it has created an approach to help small agencies and native American tribes complete their shift from […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on Commercial Satcom Services' Interoperability With Military Satcom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on Commercial Satcom Services’ Interoperability With Military Satcom

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, said in an interview aired Monday on Federal News Radio that commercial satellite communications services play a critical role in military communications amid delays and other challenges facing military satcom programs. Cowen-Hirsch told Federal Tech Talk host John Gilroy that a commercial satcom service is designed […] More

  • BAE's US Arm Lands DARPA Dispersed Computing Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s US Arm Lands DARPA Dispersed Computing Research Contract

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has been awarded a four-year, $9.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to conduct research under DARPA’s Dispersed Computing initiative. The Defense Department said Tuesday the DCOMP program aims to produce software instantations of algorithms and protocol stacks that can use dispersed computing platforms to help boost application and network performance. […] More

  • CTC Opens Crystal City, VA Office; Bob Kubler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Opens Crystal City, VA Office; Bob Kubler Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has opened an office in Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, as part of a push to bring the nonprofit applied scientific research and development firm’s employees closer to Defense Department customers. CTC said Monday 14 of its employees work daily from the new office and another 25 personnel conduct business at the facility. Bob Kubler, senior director of […] More

  • Orbital ATK Launches 7th Cargo Resupply Mission to Space Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Launches 7th Cargo Resupply Mission to Space Station

    Orbital ATK launched a Cygnus spacecraft Tuesday as part of the company’s seventh operational cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station under NASA‘s Commercial Resupply Services-1 contract. The company said Tuesday the spacecraft, nicknamed S.S. John Glenn, lifted off at 11:11 a.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket on a mission […] More

  • Subsentio Gets US Export Approval for Cloud-Based Virtual Surveillance Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Subsentio Gets US Export Approval for Cloud-Based Virtual Surveillance Tool

    Centennial, Colorado-based electronic surveillance services provider Subsentio has secured clearance from the U.S. government to export a cloud-based virtual surveillance platform to a customer in Europe. The company said Tuesday its Subsentio cloud-based virtual lawful intercept platform meets the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s technical requirements. Steve Bock, Subsentio president and CEO, said the approval reflects the […] More