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  • Former NAVSEA Senior Exec Jerome Punderson Named Gryphon COO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former NAVSEA Senior Exec Jerome Punderson Named Gryphon COO

    Jerome Punderson, former director of contracts at the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Sea Systems Command, has joined Gryphon Technologies as chief operating officer at the Washington, D.C.-based professional and engineering services contractor. Gryphon said Tuesday Punderson will be responsible for managing and executing the company’s government contracts. “The defense sector is a heavily regulated industry and having […] More

  • Centripetal Demos AI-Powered Cyber Analysis Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Centripetal Demos AI-Powered Cyber Analysis Platform

    Centripetal Networks has demonstrated its artificial intelligence-based cyber analysis platform at the 2017 Cyber Security R&D Showcase hosted by the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C. The company said Monday it participated in the event at the request of DHS to give the cyber industry a preview of the AI-Analyst system. The platform is designed to […] More

  • CACI Makes Washington Post's 2017 Top Workplaces List; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Makes Washington Post’s 2017 Top Workplaces List; Ken Asbury Comments

     CACI International has been included in The Washington Post’s 2017 Top Workplaces list in the “large company” category for the third year in a row. The Post surveyed employees from more than 300 companies in the greater Washington, D.C. area on factors such as leadership, culture and effectiveness to create the annual list, CACI said Monday. “Being named […] More

  • Red Hat's Paul Smith Receives IES Lifetime Achievement Award for Sales Excellence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat’s Paul Smith Receives IES Lifetime Achievement Award for Sales Excellence

    Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat‘s public sector business, has accepted a Lifetime Achievement award from the Institute for Excellence in Sales during a ceremony held June 6 near Washington, D.C. IES chose Smith out of 50 nominees based on criteria such as sales excellence, capacity to train sales leaders and level of achievement over an extended […] More

  • CTC Opens Crystal City, VA Office; Bob Kubler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Opens Crystal City, VA Office; Bob Kubler Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has opened an office in Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, as part of a push to bring the nonprofit applied scientific research and development firm’s employees closer to Defense Department customers. CTC said Monday 14 of its employees work daily from the new office and another 25 personnel conduct business at the facility. Bob Kubler, senior director of […] More

  • Boeing Wins EPA Award for Energy Efficiency Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Wins EPA Award for Energy Efficiency Efforts

    The Environmental Protection Agency has selected Boeing to receive an award that recognizes the company’s energy conservation efforts. EPA will present the 2017 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award to Boeing at a ceremony scheduled to be held April 26 in Washington, D.C., the company said Friday. The recognition will make Boeing an ENERGY STAR awardee for the seventh […] More

  • NIST Taps Gemalto for Digital Driver's License Pilot Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Taps Gemalto for Digital Driver’s License Pilot Program

    Gemalto has received a two-year government grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to team up with Colorado, Idaho, Maryland and Washington D.C. on a pilot program for the development of digital driver’s licenses. Gemalto said Monday the grant requires the company to support the jurisdictions on the creation of a smartphone-based credential and the […] 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

  • GSA Seeks Industry Ideas for Water Heating & Cooling System Optimization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Seeks Industry Ideas for Water Heating & Cooling System Optimization

    The General Services Administration has posted a request for information on potential alternatives for a Washington, D.C.-based complex that provides water heating and cooling services to GSA and non-GSA facilities. The agency said Friday interested parties can submit ideas and concepts on how GSA could update, expand and reposition the Heating Operations and Transmission District complex. HOTD was built in 1933 […] More

  • Capgemini's US Govt Arm Chooses Tysons Corner VA Site for Consolidated HQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capgemini’s US Govt Arm Chooses Tysons Corner VA Site for Consolidated HQ

    Capgemini‘s U.S. government subsidiary will relocate its Washington, D.C. and Reston, Virginia operations to a consolidated headquarters site in Tysons Corner, Virginia under a lease transaction. Commercial real estate advisory firm Serten Advisors said Tuesday that Capgemini Government Solutions will occupy 15,301 square feet of office space at the new 1765 Greensboro Station Place location that is adjacent to the Metrorail Silver Line’s […] 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

  • Ball Aerospace Eyes New Maryland Office for Cyber Business Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Eyes New Maryland Office for Cyber Business Expansion

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies plans to open a new office in Columbia, Maryland  this summer as part of expansion initiatives after the company completed its acquisition of specialized engineering cyber services provider Wavefront Technologies. The company said Tuesday it seeks candidates from various fields such as systems engineering, software development, cybersecurity, intelligence analysis and computer science to join the Maryland office. Ball Aerospace […] More