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  • 8 Leidos Employees to Receive Awards at 31st Annual BEYA STEM Conference; Roger Krone Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    8 Leidos Employees to Receive Awards at 31st Annual BEYA STEM Conference; Roger Krone Comments

    Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, will present awards to eight of the company’s employees at the 31st annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards science, technology, engineering and math conference in Washington D.C. Leidos said Tuesday the BEYA STEM conference offers an opportunity for professionals and students to train and establish a network with top […] More

  • Jason Smolanoff Named Kroll Senior Managing Director, Leader for Global Cyber Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jason Smolanoff Named Kroll Senior Managing Director, Leader for Global Cyber Practice

    Jason Smolanoff, a former CEO of CISO Advisory & Investigations and a 12-year FBI veteran, has been appointed senior managing director at Kroll and leader of the company’s  global cyber security practice. Kroll said Tuesday the more than 16-year federal law enforcement and information security veteran previously supervised investigations of various sophisticated computer and network intrusions by state-sponsored organized crime, hacktivists […] More

  • Chris Devens Joins ACT I as Business Devt Director; Michael Niggel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Devens Joins ACT I as Business Devt Director; Michael Niggel Comments

    Chris Devens, formerly operations and business development director at Camber Corp., has been appointed director of business development at Advanced Concepts and Technologies International. He brings more than 30 years of military operations and program management experience to his new position and aims to help the company identify new business opportunities, establish customer relationships and support the firm’s capture and proposal […] More

  • Law Enforcement Vet Michael McDonald to Lead Intellicheck Mobilisa's Push to Drive 'Law ID' Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Law Enforcement Vet Michael McDonald to Lead Intellicheck Mobilisa’s Push to Drive ‘Law ID’ Adoption

    Michael McDonald, formerly director of information technology for the Delaware state police, has joined Intellicheck Mobilisa to help drive the adoption of a threat identification, identification authentication and contact status system at federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies. The company said Tuesday McDonald will serve as business development manager for law enforcement solutions and lead Intellicheck […] More

  • Air Force Vet James Kowalski Named Northrop Govt Relations VP, Corporate Lead Exec for Louisiana Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Vet James Kowalski Named Northrop Govt Relations VP, Corporate Lead Exec for Louisiana Office

    James Kowakski, former deputy commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, has joined been named vice president of government relations at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and corporate lead executive for the company’s office in Louisiana. The 35-year U.S. Air Force veteran will report to Timothy Jones, vice president of Northrop’s aviation and ISR business in his new position, the […] More

  • Northrop to Back UAS Design Challenge for Engineering Students; Andrew Tyler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Back UAS Design Challenge for Engineering Students; Andrew Tyler Comments

    Northrop Grumman will sponsor an unmanned aircraft system challenge, hosted by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, for the third consecutive year as part of the company’s global commitment to foster innovative thinking in engineering and technology. Northrop said Thursday student engineers from 22 universities across the U.K. and overseas locations will participate in the competition that […] More

  • Former SPAWAR Europe Director Jim Condon Named Principal at Deep Water Point's German Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former SPAWAR Europe Director Jim Condon Named Principal at Deep Water Point’s German Office

    Jim Condon, former vice president for business development at TRICON Defense International and a former director at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Europe, has been appointed as a principal for Deep Water Point‘s new office in Germany. Deep Water Point said Wednesday Condon will work to boost visibility of Europe-based activities for U.S.-owned and European […] 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

  • NSA Vet Curt Dukes Joins Center for Internet Security in EVP Role; John Gilligan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSA Vet Curt Dukes Joins Center for Internet Security in EVP Role; John Gilligan Comments

    Curt Dukes, former director of the National Security Agency‘s information assurance directorate, has joined the Center for Internet Security as executive vice president. He will oversee the center’s security best practices automation group that handles  CIS controls and security benchmarks as well as tools designed to automate standards evaluation, CIS said Tuesday. Dukes will also lead efforts to expand the nonprofit’s standards content, […] More

  • Former FCI Exec Julie Mehan Named MetroStar Systems Director of Cybersecurity Strategy and Alignment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former FCI Exec Julie Mehan Named MetroStar Systems Director of Cybersecurity Strategy and Alignment

    Julie Mehan, former Femme Comp Inc. principal cybersecurity analyst, has been appointed as MetroStar Systems‘ new director of cybersecurity strategy and alignment as part of that company’s push to expand its cybersecurity capacity and thought leadership. MetroStar Systems said Tuesday Mehan, a 35-year cybersecurity veteran, will oversee the company’s efforts to boost its service portfolio as well […] More

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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

  • Five University Teams to Submit In-Space Spacecraft Assembly Concepts Under NASA Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Five University Teams to Submit In-Space Spacecraft Assembly Concepts Under NASA Challenge

    Five university teams will submit concepts for in-space spacecraft assembly as part of a challenge sponsored by the Game-Changing Development Program of NASA‘s space technology mission directorate. NASA said Dec. 16 one team each from Tulane University and University of Colorado Boulder, two from University of Maryland and one combined team from Georgia Institute of Technology, University of […] More