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Rene LaVigne, president and CEO of Iron Bow Technologies, has been selected to receive a Washington Business Journal award for business leadership, success and community involvement. LaVigne will receive the Minority Business Leader award March 21 at the Business Journal’s sixth annual awards ceremony in Washington along with 24 other …

Lockheed Martin sponsored an awards program to recognize high school students for achievement in the classroom and service to the community, the South Philly Review reports. Joseph Myers writes the company has sponsored Police Athletic League Day in Philadelphia for the last seven years and PAL Day observed its 43rd …

  Mitre Corp. engineers Ben King Sr., James Tolbert II and Nickyra Washington each won awards at a global conference in Washington Feb. 7 through 9 focused on global competitiveness in science, technology, engineering and math. King won a career achievement award while Tolbert and Washington won modern-day technology awards …

Two Science Applications International Corp. subsidiaries made the top ten list on an industry survey of healthcare software and services vendors. Vitalize Consulting Solutions ranked fourth and maxIT Healthcare ranked seventh in the overall services firm category for market research firm KLAS’ Best In KLAS Awards, SAIC said Monday. MaxIT …

Iron Bow Technologies has achieved a Cisco security certification based recognizing its work in deploying security projects and vulnerability assessments based on benchmarks for customer satisfaction, personnel and support. Cisco’s Master Security Specialization is the highest level of security certification for Cisco partners who demonstrate work in security assessments, designs, …

California-based Palantir placed as a runner up at the Crunchies Awards for its award to the best overall startup for the year. The intelligence community’s investment arm In-Q-Tel, Peter Thiel and some Stanford University computer scientists started Palantir in 2004 to make data analysis software, Citibizlist reports. Technology websites TechCrunch, …

Capgemini‘s U.S. government business will compete to test and verify information technology products and services for the Department of Homeland Security under a potential $22 billion contract. Capgemini is one of six awardees on the potential seven-year EAGLE II contract vehicle (click here for GovCon Wire’s list of awardees). “We …

Gartner has named Oracle to the market research firm’s Leaders Quadrant for 2012 in the integrated revenue and customer management categories for communications service providers, Oracle said Wednesday. According to Oracle, Gartner selects the quadrant’s members based on having a complete vision and execution of that vision. Gartner includes billing, …

Jacobs Engineering Group has won two awards from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for work on a building consolidation project for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and an environmental restoration project. The company said two of its acquisitions were the awardees, with KlingStubbins winning for the NGA Campus East Project in Springfield, …

Dr. Jack London, CACI International‘s president and CEO for 23 years, was inducted into the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards Hall of Fame, which recognizes career achievement and long term contributions to the GovCon industry. At the 10th annual ceremony held in Tysons Corner, Va., Maximus President and CEO Richard Montoni …

Calibre Systems and Blue Canopy each received a “Contractor of the Year” distinction recognizing achievements during 2012 at the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards Thursday night. Calibre, an Alexandria, Va.-based management and technology services provider, won the award for companies with between $75 million and $300 million in annual revenue …

Lockheed Martin has received two out of five awards from the Defense Department and the National Defense Industrial Association for excellence in systems engineering, with the Army and Air Force as respective co-recipients, the company announced Thursday. The company’s mission systems and sensors segment and the Army’s Night Vision/Reconnaissance, Surveillance …

Government contracting executives and companies will gather Nov. 1 at the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards to recognize their peers in seven categories. They will also witness the induction of a long-time GovCon leader into the hall of fame (click over to GovCon Wire to find out his identity). The …

Jody Tedesco, president of NJVC was named a finalist in the 2012 American Business Awards’ executive of the year, computer services category. The Vienna, Va.-based firm said Friday Tedesco is among more than 140 business professionals nominated nationwide. The final judging will take place between May 14 – 25. This …

ICF International is a recipient of a Department of Health and Human Services award for supporting programs targeted to low-income families, the company announced Thursday. The department’s children and families administration gave the company an Outstanding Contractor award for helping the Assets for Independence program and the ASSET Initiative. AFI …