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  • Engility Introduces Cloud Migration, Optimization Tool for DoD, IC Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Introduces Cloud Migration, Optimization Tool for DoD, IC Clients

    Engility has launched a technology platform the company designed to help defense and intelligence agencies architect, optimize and migrate to cloud computing infrastructure. Cloud ASCEND uses a data-based approach meant to help customers manage cloud and enterprise modernization projects, Engility said Wednesday. The company developed the platform to help customers gain visibility and reduce potential risks of cloud migration. Amanda Brownfield, senior […] More

  • Jeff Kerridge Named Senior VP of Business Development at AECOM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeff Kerridge Named Senior VP of Business Development at AECOM

    Jeff Kerridge, a 31-year nuclear industry veteran, has been named senior vice president of business development in the Nuclear & Environment (N&E) Strategic Business Unit within AECOM’s Management Services group, the company announced Tuesday “Jeff’s understanding of the nuclear industry for the U.S. Department of Energy and U.K. Ministry of Defense is invaluable,” said John Vollmer, […] More

  • U.S. Consumer Spending Rebounds for Biggest Increase in 4 Months - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    U.S. Consumer Spending Rebounds for Biggest Increase in 4 Months

    In line with wage and salary increases the previous month, U.S. consumer spending saw its biggest increase in four months in April, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. This increase was the largest since December. Consumer spending, which accounts for over two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, increased 0.4 percent. In April, households spent more on both goods […] More

  • Red Hat Acquires Codenvy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Acquires Codenvy

    Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), a provider of open source solutions, announced Thursday that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Codenvy, a provider of cloud-native tools that developers use to create modern container-based and cloud-native applications. Tools like Codenvy allow software engineers to spend less time on environment management, administration and other tasks that take them away […] More

  • Homeland Security Tools Available to Private Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Homeland Security Tools Available to Private Sector

    The Department of Homeland Security’s Transition to Practice office has helped make dozens of technologies developed by government labs or research partners commercially viable, including eight tools licensed by private companies, 15 tools piloted within government or the private sector, and five offered as open source code, said Program Manager Nadia Carlsten Tuesday. Akatosh is […] More

  • Spotlight on Corey Schumacher, Principal Integration Engineer for 711 Human Performance Win - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spotlight on Corey Schumacher, Principal Integration Engineer for 711 Human Performance Win

    Corey Schumacher will be speaking at the Unmanned Systems Forum held by the Potomac Officers Club on Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Schumacher is the Principal Integration Engineer for Autonomy for the 711 Human Performance Win. In his current role, he is Chief Engineer for the “Autonomy for a Loyal  Wingman” Initiative and  responsible for leading all systems engineering and […] More

  • 28 Year Low: Fewest Workers Receive Unemployment Since 1988 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    28 Year Low: Fewest Workers Receive Unemployment Since 1988

    Fewer workers received unemployment benefits at the end of April than at any other time in the last 28 years, the Department of Labor reported Thursday, and when the last four weeks are taken into account, total unemployment benefit claims are at their lowest rate since 1974. . There were only 236,000 new jobless claims, better than […] More