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  • Donna Harris to Step Down as Co-CEO of D.C. Incubator 1776 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Donna Harris to Step Down as Co-CEO of D.C. Incubator 1776

    Donna Harris is due to step down from her role as co-CEO of Washington, D.C.-based seed fund and startup incubator 1776 by the end of January 2017. She will remain at 1776 as a board member and partner in the fund while her co-CEO and co-founder Evan Burfield will become the sole CEO, the company said Wednesday. Harris wrote in an article published […] More

  • Luke Tenery Named Ankura Cyber Practice Senior Managing Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Luke Tenery Named Ankura Cyber Practice Senior Managing Director

    Luke Tenery, former associate managing director of Kroll’s cybersecurity and investigations practice, has been appointed as senior managing director for the cybersecurity practice at Ankura Consulting Group‘s risk, resilience and geopolitical group. Ankura said Monday Tenery will be based in the company’s Chicago office and brings 15 years of cyber incident investigations and forensics, data privacy and […] More

  • Law Enforcement Vets Ronald Sloan, Robert Fahlman Join Wynyard Advisory Council - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Law Enforcement Vets Ronald Sloan, Robert Fahlman Join Wynyard Advisory Council

    Former Colorado Bureau of Investigation Director Ronald Sloan and Robert Fahlman, a 35-year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, have joined the advisory council at crime analytics firm Wynyard. Both Sloan and Fahlman will bring their investigative and criminal intelligence experiences as well as provide insight on the needs of law enforcement agencies to the […] More

  • Kurt Amend to Lead Raytheon's Saudi Arabia Operations; Thomas Vecchiolla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kurt Amend to Lead Raytheon’s Saudi Arabia Operations; Thomas Vecchiolla Comments

    Kurt Amend, formerly vice president of foreign policy and national security affairs at Raytheon‘s international business, has been named president of the company’s operations in Saudi Arabia. He will succeed Lou Laroche, who is due to retire at the end of this year after a nearly four-decade career with Raytheon, the company said Wednesday. Amend joined Raytheon in 2011 as an […] More

  • SOS International Promotes Mike Franz as VP of Business Devt; Julian Setian Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOS International Promotes Mike Franz as VP of Business Devt; Julian Setian Comments

    Mike Franz, former business development director at SOS International, has been promoted as the company’s vice president for business development. SOSi said Thursday Franz will succeed former business development VP Jim Edwards, who has recently joined the U.S. government following four years with the company. “As the deputy of our business development organization, [Franz] consistently helped lead our team to […] More

  • Jaswinder Matharu, Richard Roth Join Sevatec Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jaswinder Matharu, Richard Roth Join Sevatec Advisory Board

    Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services contractor Sevatec has appointed industry veterans Jaswinder Matharu and Richard Roth to the company’s board of advisers. Matharu, a 20-year federal market veteran, led data warehousing and analytics firm Agilis International as president and CEO before its acquisition by Infogix in 2014, Sevatec said Wednesday. He also previously held the roles of CEO, chief […] More

  • Former Oshkosh Defense Lead John Urias Joins TenCate Advanced Armor's Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Oshkosh Defense Lead John Urias Joins TenCate Advanced Armor’s Advisory Board

    John Urias, former president of Oshkosh Corp.’s defense segment, has joined TenCate Advanced Armor as a member of the protective fabrics manufacturer’s advisory board. TCAA said Monday Urias brings experience in U.S. and international contracting to the company plus background from his career in the U.S. Army. Group Director Steen Tanderup said the company looked to Urias’ military and […] More

  • IT Industry Vet Vic Bhagat Named Verizon Enterprise Solutions CIO; Christopher Formant Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IT Industry Vet Vic Bhagat Named Verizon Enterprise Solutions CIO; Christopher Formant Comments

    Vic Bhagat, formerly executive vice president and chief information officer at EMC, has joined Verizon‘s enterprise solutions business as CIO. The 30-year industry veteran will oversee the unit’s technology strategy, information technology initiatives and development of next-generation enterprise communications services in his new position, Verizon said Monday. “With Vic’s passion and creativity to harness IT for innovation and […] More

  • Former Salesforce Exec Adam Bosworth to Take Senior Role at AWS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Salesforce Exec Adam Bosworth to Take Senior Role at AWS

    Adam Bosworth, formerly an executive vice president at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), is set to take a senior position at Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), Fortune reported Wednesday. Barb Darrow writes Bosworth most recently took charge of Salesforce’s software development projects such as an Internet of Things initiative called Thunder. Bosworth previously served as a vice […] More

  • Paul Stewart Joins ZMicro as Programs Director; Jason Wade Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Stewart Joins ZMicro as Programs Director; Jason Wade Comments

    Paul Stewart, an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance industry veteran and former senior executive at ForceX, has joined computing systems firm ZMicro as director of programs. He will oversee the lifecycle management of ZMicro’s programs with the Defense Department, ZMicro said Thursday. “Paul brings a tremendous depth of expertise in ISR and DoD program management,” said Jason Wade, president of […] More

  • Avi Pfeffer Appointed as Charles River Analytics Chief Scientist; Karen Harper Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avi Pfeffer Appointed as Charles River Analytics Chief Scientist; Karen Harper Comments

    Avi Pfeffer, formerly a principal scientist at Charles River Analytics, has been named chief scientist of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based defense and intelligent systems developer. He brings 20 years of probabilistic modeling and programming technology research and development experience to his new role, Charles River Analytics said Thursday. Karen Harper, president of Charles River Analytics, said Pfeffer will lead […] 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