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  • AcademyHealth Partners With Mitre-Operated R&D Center to Help Address Health IT Challenges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AcademyHealth Partners With Mitre-Operated R&D Center to Help Address Health IT Challenges

    A Mitre-run federally funded research and development center and AcademyHealth have forged a partnership to help the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services address health information technology challenges in the U.S. Mitre said Wednesday AcademyHealth and the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare FFRDC will study the impact of policy changes in […] More

  • Mitre Selects Winning Team for Internet-of-Things Security Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Selects Winning Team for Internet-of-Things Security Challenge

    Mitre has unveiled the winners of a company-sponsored competition that sought ideas to help individuals, government agencies and businesses secure internet of things-based  risks. A team from Georgia led by Ciena hardware engineer Duncan Thompson won the top prize of $50,000 in the Mitre Unique Identification of Things challenge while the Pulzze Systems and Tietronix teams were the runner-ups, Mitre said Friday. […] More

  • MITRE's Roger Furr on Nonprofit Org's Role as Government's 'Bridge' to Commercial Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE’s Roger Furr on Nonprofit Org’s Role as Government’s ‘Bridge’ to Commercial Sector

    Roger Furr leads work to form and administer both contracts and subcontracts in his role as an executive director at nonprofit research organization MITRE Corp. MITRE operates federally-funded research and development centers for the government that act as hubs for agencies and commercial companies to collaborate on scientific research, analysis, development, systems engineering and integration. […] More

  • Mitre VP William LaPlante to Co-Chair a Defense Science Board Task Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre VP William LaPlante to Co-Chair a Defense Science Board Task Force

    William LaPlante, vice president of Mitre‘s intelligence portfolio, has been appointed to co-chair the Defense Science Board’s task force on the design and acquisition of software for defense systems. He will lead the task force in efforts to examine the evolution of the Defense Department‘s software acquisition process over the past decade and offer recommendations to help DoD improve the […] More

  • Mitre to Mentor Rockville Innovation Center Startups on Cybersecurity via BHI Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre to Mentor Rockville Innovation Center Startups on Cybersecurity via BHI Partnership

    Mitre has partnered with BioHealth Innovation Inc. to provide cybersecurity mentorship to startup companies at the Rockville Innovation Center in Maryland. RIC houses BHI’s health technology startup accelerator Relevant Health and aims to graduate early-stage technology firms into the commercial market of Montgomery County through various resources, BHI said Monday. “This arrangement enables each party to focus on […] More

  • Mitre Included in San Antonio Top Workplaces for 2016 List; Julie Gravallese Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Included in San Antonio Top Workplaces for 2016 List; Julie Gravallese Comments

    Mitre Corp. has ranked in San Antonio Express-News’ Top Workplaces list for 2016 in recognition of the company’s efforts to provide a working environment that addresses employee needs. The company said Monday it received positive reviews from its employees for its benefits package, work-life balance and work motivation. “We are excited to be considered one of the […] More

  • D-Wave Unveils US Gov’t Subsidiary, Names Independent Board Members - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    D-Wave Unveils US Gov’t Subsidiary, Names Independent Board Members

    D-Wave Systems has established a new subsidiary that will work to provide quantum computer systems to U.S. government agencies and has appointed executives that will serve on the subsidiary’s independent board. The company said Tuesday Jeffrey Harris, chairman of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation and former president of special programs at Lockheed Martin, will serve as chairman […] More

  • Security Magazine Lists 19 Most Influential People in Security for 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Security Magazine Lists 19 Most Influential People in Security for 2016

    Security Magazine has unveiled its list of the 19 Most Influential People in Security for 2016 in an article published Sept. 1. Diane Ritchey writes colleagues and associates nominated the top security leaders based on leadership qualities and the impact of their security projects and programs on shareholders, their organizations, their peers, the public and the overall security landscape. The […] More

  • Mitre Picks Systems from Van Cleve & Associates, Open Works Engineering as Countering UAS Contest Winners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Picks Systems from Van Cleve & Associates, Open Works Engineering as Countering UAS Contest Winners

    Mitre has selected platforms from Van Cleve & Associates and Open Works Engineering as winners of the nonprofit organization’s Countering Unmanned Aircraft Systems Challenge. The two winners were selected out of the eight finalists for the C-UAS competition that seeks new systems designed to detect and interdict small drones that pose security or safety risks, Mitre […] More

  • GovCon Industry Pros Recognized in Trending 40's Top DC Corporate Counsels List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GovCon Industry Pros Recognized in Trending 40’s Top DC Corporate Counsels List

    Laurence Grayer of Veterans Moving Forward, Gregory Nixon of Cerberus and Josh Petty of Booz Allen Hamilton have made Trending 40’s list of top corporate counsels in Washington, D.C. for 2016. The legal professionals will be honored during a ceremony that will be held Sept. 21 at Crystal City, Virginia. Other honorees include Mitre‘s Julie Bowen, AT&T‘s Rishi Chhatwal, PwC‘s Eliza Nagle, Northrop Grumman‘s Charlton Walker […] More

  • Prism Joins Mitre-Led Govt-Industry Aviation Safety Information-Sharing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Prism Joins Mitre-Led Govt-Industry Aviation Safety Information-Sharing Program

    Prism has joined a Mitre-administered government-industry information-sharing program funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and will provide its Aviation Risk Management Online Resource to serve as a participating platform for aviation safety report submissions. Prism said Wednesday it will participate in the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing program that serves to facilitate safety information exchanges and provide support resources for the aviation industry. “Every […] More

  • Triple-i to Sponsor Advanced Technology Academic Research Center's Federal DevOps Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Triple-i to Sponsor Advanced Technology Academic Research Center’s Federal DevOps Summit

    Information Innovators Inc. will sponsor a one-day symposium by the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center that will discuss the potential impact of DevOps and Agile methodology on the federal government. The ATARC Federal DevOps Summit will feature Pramod Malhotra, Triple-i’s software engineering and technical solutions director, as host for the second session of the Mitre-ATARC Collaboration Symposium segment, Triple-i said Monday. The event will […] More