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  • CSRA's Yogesh Khanna to Lead Conference Call on Federal Cloud Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA’s Yogesh Khanna to Lead Conference Call on Federal Cloud Adoption

    CSRA will hold a conference call on July 17 with the investment community and government information technology professionals to discuss cloud adoption within the U.S. federal government. Yogesh Khanna, CSRA chief technology officer, will facilitate the conference call alongside federal practice leaders from Microsoft and ServiceNow, CSRA said Monday. The call will be publicly accessible through […] More

  • Mitre Elects Former DoD Official Paul Kaminski to Board of Trustees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Elects Former DoD Official Paul Kaminski to Board of Trustees

    Paul Kaminski, a former Defense Department undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, has joined Mitre‘s board of trustees. The nonprofit said Thursday he currently serves as president and CEO of Technovation, a consulting company that helps clients develop business and investment strategies related to aerospace and defense technology. Jason Providakes, Mitre president and CEO, said Kaminski will contribute […] More

  • Washington Post Recognizes Mitre on Top Workplaces List for 2017; Julie Gravallese Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Washington Post Recognizes Mitre on Top Workplaces List for 2017; Julie Gravallese Comments

    The Washington Post has recognized Mitre as one of the top workplaces list for 2017 under the “largest organizations” category, which includes companies in Washington that have 500 or more employees. Mitre said Monday that it has received the Washington Post recognition for the third consecutive year. Factors considered for the award include employees’ responses […] More

  • Mitre Report Offers Strategies to Build Cyber Info-Sharing Ecosystem - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Report Offers Strategies to Build Cyber Info-Sharing Ecosystem

    Mitre has published a new report that includes multiple strategies on how public and private organizations can establish a national ecosystem to share unclassified cyber information. Bruce Bakis and Edward Wang, respectively a manager and a thought leader at Mitre, wrote in a joint article published Wednesday the “Building a National Cyber Information-Sharing Ecosystem” report contains 11 recommendations […] More

  • Patricia Steinbrech Appointed to Lead Mitre-Operated Federal Healthcare R&D Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patricia Steinbrech Appointed to Lead Mitre-Operated Federal Healthcare R&D Center

    Patricia Steinbrech, former chief information officer and senior vice president of information technology and operations at ACT, has been named VP and director of a federally funded research and development center Mitre manages for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She will oversee Mitre’s CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare FFRDC and the health missions of federal agencies the center supports, the nonprofit […] More

  • Ensco Demos Virtual Phased Array, Software-Based Radio Projects at INSA Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco Demos Virtual Phased Array, Software-Based Radio Projects at INSA Event

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has selected Ensco to present two independent research and development projects in front of a government intelligence community audience at the INSA Innovators Showcase forum. Ensco said Thursday it showcased the Virtual Phased Array and Low SWaP Software Defined Environments projects to a large group of program managers, engineers and scientists from the U.S. government […] More

  • Julie Gravallese: Mitre Managers Play Role in Employee Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Julie Gravallese: Mitre Managers Play Role in Employee Development

    Julie Gravallese, a vice president and chief human resources officer of Mitre, has said managers at the McLean, Virginia-based nonprofit research and development organization help advance career development among employees through annual conversations, the Society for Human Resource Management reported Tuesday. Kathy Gurchiek writes Gravallese told HR People+Strategy Conference attendees Monday that managers facilitate CLEAR conversations with […] More

  • DARPA to Brief Proposers on Hardware Security Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Brief Proposers on Hardware Security Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks industry expertise to address security vulnerabilities in electronic hardware and plans to hold an event in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss the project with interested companies. DARPA said Monday its System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware program aims to mitigate seven classes of hardware vulnerabilities listed on the Mitre-administered Common Weakness Enumeration website. Those classes are permissions […] More

  • Mitre Named General Steward of Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Named General Steward of Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency

    Mitre has entered into an agreement with The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency to serve as a general steward in the development of the nonprofit network’s guiding principles, global agenda and work streams. The company said Thursday it will also supply strategic advice, establish working groups and provide expertise and financial support to the GIFT Action […] More

  • Mitre, University of Virginia Offer Systems Engineering Fellowship to Fed Employees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre, University of Virginia Offer Systems Engineering Fellowship to Fed Employees

    Mitre has partnered with University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science to offer a fellowship opportunity to military and federal civilian employees in the field of systems engineering. The nonprofit company said Wednesday the 12-month Systems Engineering Fellowship for Federal Employees program seeks to provide future government technology leaders access to hands-on research and project experience at Mitre and […] More

  • 7 Mitre Employees Receive Awards at 31st BEYA STEM Conference; Julie Gravallese Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    7 Mitre Employees Receive Awards at 31st BEYA STEM Conference; Julie Gravallese Comments

    Seven Mitre employees received recognition at the 2017 Becoming Everything You Are Awards’ science, technology, engineering and math conference in Washington, D.C, for their professional achievements. Mitre said Wednesday the Career Communications Group-sponsored BEYA STEM conference brought together engineering and information technology professionals to promote opportunities for “underrepresented” groups and women in the U.S. technology sector. “As we […] More

  • Mitre, Singapore's Nanyang Technological University Form 'Smart' Tech R&D Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre, Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University Form ‘Smart’ Tech R&D Partnership

    Mitre and Singapore-based Nanyang Technological University have signed two research agreements to develop multiple technology platforms in support of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative, The partnership aims to help increase safety in the workplace and productivity in courts with smart technologies, Mitre said Friday. NTU Professor Freddy Boey said the university seeks to combine its expertise in systems engineering and sustainable […] More