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  • Steven Demetriou Adds Board Chairman Role at Jacobs; Linda Fayne Levinson Named Lead Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steven Demetriou Adds Board Chairman Role at Jacobs; Linda Fayne Levinson Named Lead Director

    Jacobs Engineering Group has appointed Steven Demetriou, company president and CEO, to take the additional role of chairman of the board and named Linda Fayne Levinson, a director at Jacobs and VendareNetblue chairman, as lead director. “The board concluded it is in the best interest of the company and its shareholders to combine the roles of chairman and CEO,” Noel […] More

  • Salient CRGT Promotes John Edgar as SVP; Kevin Bahumian & Anuj Mathur to VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Promotes John Edgar as SVP; Kevin Bahumian & Anuj Mathur to VP

    Salient CRGT has elevated John Edgar, former company vice president and chief strategist for information technology transformation, as a senior VP while Kevin Bahumian and Anuj Mathur have been promoted to the roles of vice president from their former directorial positions. The software development and technology services company said Thursday Edgar will continue to manage Salient’s innovation centers and provide leadership […] More

  • Vincent Orange Named DC Chamber of Commerce President and CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vincent Orange Named DC Chamber of Commerce President and CEO

    Outgoing Washington city council member Vincent Orange has been selected as the D.C. Chamber of Commerce’s next president and CEO, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. Andy Medici writes Orange, who currently serves as chairman of the committee on business, consumer and regulatory affairs, will continue his term as councilman until January 2017 and will take helm as D.C. […] More

  • Curtiss-Wright Releases New Video Mgmt Tech for Air, Ground Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curtiss-Wright Releases New Video Mgmt Tech for Air, Ground Vehicles

    Curtiss-Wright has released a new compact switch technology the company’s defense solutions unit designed to transmit video camera data to multiple displays. The RVG-SDI Crossbar Video Switch consists of eight external miniBNC connectors and works to route 3G, high-definition and standard definition serial digital interface video sources, Curtiss-Wright said June 13. “A growing challenge for system integrators is how to get the most effective use out […] More

  • Sentient Vision Updates Automated Land & Maritime Object Detection Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sentient Vision Updates Automated Land & Maritime Object Detection Software

    Australia-based computer vision systems provider Sentient Vision Systems has unveiled the latest update to its automated object detection software for land and maritime applications. Sentient said July 19 the Kestrel 4.0 update includes functions that work to cut image processing requirements by 50 percent and support high-definition image processing on a processor. “This upgrade allows our ground-based customers […] More

  • DFNDR Armor to Use Honeywell's Ballistic Composite Materials for Body Armor Plate Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DFNDR Armor to Use Honeywell’s Ballistic Composite Materials for Body Armor Plate Production

    DFNDR Armor has selected Honeywell‘s Spectra Shield ballistic composite materials to produce body armor plates for potential use in the U.S. public sector. The companies said Wednesday Honeywell’s Spectra fiber-based materials will also support DFNDR Armor’s research-and-development work on “next generation” body armor technology for U.S. military, law enforcement and civilians. DFNDR Armor CEO Dave Fernandez said the body armor manufacturer uses Honeywell Spectra exclusively […] More

  • Saab Receives DoD Order for Man-Portable Weapon System; Michael Andersson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Receives DoD Order for Man-Portable Weapon System; Michael Andersson Comments

    Saab has received a $5.4 million order from the Defense Department to supply a company-built man-portable weapon system to U.S. military agencies. The defense and security company said Thursday the order for Saab’s Carl-Gustaf was issued under a previously awarded DoD contract for 84-millimeter recoilless rifle systems. Michael Andersson, president and CEO of Saab’s North American business, said Carl-Gustaf features […] More

  • Lockheed Installs Optical Sensor on Navy Salvage Ship for NATO Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Installs Optical Sensor on Navy Salvage Ship for NATO Missions

    Lockheed Martin has installed a company-built vehicle optical sensor system on the U.S. Navy‘s USNS Grapple rescue and salvage ship to support NATO‘s patrol operations in the Aegean Sea. The company and the military branch chose a first-generation Gyrocam VOSS from the U.S. government’s inventory and completed system installation over a two-week period, Lockheed said Wednesday. “To support NATO’s security mission quickly, the U.S. Navy needed […] More

  • Paul Smith: Red Hat Extends Subscription Program to Microsoft's Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Smith: Red Hat Extends Subscription Program to Microsoft’s Azure Govt Cloud

    Red Hat and Microsoft have expanded their partnership to help public sector clients adopt Microsoft’s cloud computing technology through their existing open-source Red Hat software subscriptions. Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s public sector business, wrote in a blog entry posted Friday the company’s Cloud Access program now allows clients to migrate their subscriptions to Azure […] More

  • FDH Velocitel to Use Proprietary Nondestructive Test Method Across Army Engineers-Managed Dams - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FDH Velocitel to Use Proprietary Nondestructive Test Method Across Army Engineers-Managed Dams

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected FDH Velocitel to carry out architectural and engineering services in support of tension tests on the Tainter gate trunnion girder anchor rods within dams managed by the service branch. FDH Velocitel said Tuesday it will apply its proprietary nondestructive test method to help USACE manage an inventory of post-tensioned anchor rods, which make up part […] More

  • Space News: SpaceX to Spend Approximately $300M on Red Dragon Mars Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space News: SpaceX to Spend Approximately $300M on Red Dragon Mars Mission

    Jim Reuter, deputy associate administrator for programs at NASA’s space technology mission directorate, has said SpaceX proposed to invest 10 times the funds NASA plans to allocate for an uncrewed Mars landing mission, Space News reported Thursday. Jeff Foust writes Reuter said at a NASA Advisory Council meeting in Cleveland that the agency could spend $32 million on […] More