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  • Battelle to Help National Guard Train WMD, CBRNE Response Teams - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Help National Guard Train WMD, CBRNE Response Teams

    Battelle has received a three-year, $13.8 million task order to provide training support to the National Guard Bureau‘s Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Division. The nonproft organization said Wednesday it will help train WMD and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives response teams under the task order. The order falls under the Defense Technical Information Center’s Homeland Defense & […] More

  • Daniel Feehan Named Senior Fellow For CNAS Military, Veterans and Society Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Daniel Feehan Named Senior Fellow For CNAS Military, Veterans and Society Program

    Daniel Feehan, former principal deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness at the Defense Department, in now adjunct senior fellow for the Center for a New American Security‘s Military, Veterans and Society program. CNAS said Monday that Feehan will aid the organization’s ongoing research efforts as well as guide current junior staff and offer input on […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Delivers HC-130J Personnel Recovery Aircraft to National Guard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Delivers HC-130J Personnel Recovery Aircraft to National Guard

    The U.S. National Guard has received the first of four Lockheed Martin-developed fixed-wing personnel recovery aircraft that will support operations in Alaska and the Pacific Theater. Lockheed said Thursday that the HC-130J aircraft will help users respond to disaster scenarios, evacuate aeromedical personnel, support humanitarian outreach programs, disseminate aviation advisories and perform security cooperation missions. HC-130J, which will succeed […] More

  • TAPE to Develop Training Resources for Army; Louisa Jaffe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TAPE to Develop Training Resources for Army; Louisa Jaffe Comments

    Technical and Project Engineering has received a potential three-year, $45 million contract to continue provision of training resource modeling services to the U.S. Army. TAPE said Tuesday it will develop and distribute training resources across Army components that include the National Guard, reserve units, Forces Command, Special Operations Command and the Training and Doctrine Command. The company will also […] More

  • Former FEMA Official Deanne Criswell Joins Cadmus as Principal for Homeland Security Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former FEMA Official Deanne Criswell Joins Cadmus as Principal for Homeland Security Sector

    Cadmus has named Deanne Criswell, formerly head of a Federal Emergency Management Agency national incident management assistance team, as a principal in the company’s homeland security sector. Criswell will oversee Cadmus’ relationships with local and state homeland security and emergency management customers, the professional consulting services provider said Thursday. “Having worked with Deanne as she trained and managed […] More

  • CTC Recognized for Pennsylvania Guard and Reserve Staff Support; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Recognized for Pennsylvania Guard and Reserve Staff Support; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received recognition from the Pennsylvania Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve office for the company’s outstanding support of employees who serve in the Pennsylvania Guard and Reserve. CTC said Thursday it accepted the Soaring Eagle Award during the ESGR Employer Awards Luncheon held in November 2016 along with the Extraordinary Employer Support Award, Above […] More

  • Windstream Receives Gold-Level Military Friendly Employer Award from Victory Media - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Windstream Receives Gold-Level Military Friendly Employer Award from Victory Media

    Victory Media has given a Gold-Level Military Friendly Employer award to Windstream for the company’s work to meet six criteria on advancement rates, hiring, military employment application, promotion, turnover and National Guard and Reserve policies. Windstream said Friday it worked on its military hiring program in 2015 with the appointment of Angel Ramos, retired command sergeant major, who […] More

  • American Water Partners With Army on Military Veterans Employment Program; Susan Story Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    American Water Partners With Army on Military Veterans Employment Program; Susan Story Comments

    Water and wastewater utility firm American Water has signed a deal with the U.S. Army to serve as a partner of a program that seeks to help military personnel and veterans transition to civilian jobs. The service branch’s Partnership for Youth Success program seeks to provide soldiers an opportunity to establish relationships and find employment with the […] More

  • AM General Receives $151M in Domestic & International Humvee Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AM General Receives $151M in Domestic & International Humvee Contracts

    AM General has received contracts from U.S. and international military agencies worth more than $151 million in total to provide Humvees, associated parts and training. The company said Monday the contracts cover production vehicles, automotive kits, spare parts and training. The U.S. Army awarded AM General a $108.8 million contract modification to deliver 433 Humvees to Afghanistan through a foreign military sales deal, […] More

  • Northrop Grumman to Participate in National Guard Conference & Tech Exhibition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman to Participate in National Guard Conference & Tech Exhibition

    Northrop Grumman will feature some of its technologies at the National Guard Association of the United States’ 138th General Conference and Exhibition in Maryland from Sept. 9 to 12. The company said Thursday it will present technologies that work to support the National Guard in the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fields. Included in the […] More

  • First Command Appoints Retired Navy, Marine Corps Officers to Military Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    First Command Appoints Retired Navy, Marine Corps Officers to Military Advisory Board

    Retired military officers Alford McMichael and Charles Clarke have joined First Command Financial Services as members of the company’s military advisory board. McMichael and Clarke will provide independent advice on military trends and the financial needs and products and services that affect military families as part of First Command’s 10-member board, the company said Monday. They will also […] More