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  • ViON Named Among 'Largest' Private Companies in Greater Washington - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON Named Among ‘Largest’ Private Companies in Greater Washington

    ViON has been included in a list of best-performing privately held companies in the greater Washington, D.C., area based on total revenue in 2016. The company said Thursday it received recognition as one of the top private companies in the region for the second year, placing 53rd out of 105 companies in this year’s Washington Business Journal Largest Private […] More

  • Dong Ha Appointed CEO of Northrop's South Korean Arm - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dong Ha Appointed CEO of Northrop’s South Korean Arm

    Dong Ha, a retired U.S. Army colonel and 27-year military veteran, has been appointed CEO of Northrop Grumman‘s South Korean subsidiary. Northrop said Thursday Ha will oversee the company’s operations in South Korea as well as support current programs and in-country expansion initiatives. “Dong brings a deep understanding of South Korea’s global security challenges to this leadership […] More

  • Former FireEye CEO David DeWalt Named Managing Director at Allegis Capital - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former FireEye CEO David DeWalt Named Managing Director at Allegis Capital

    David DeWalt, former CEO of cybersecurity company FireEye, has joined cyber venture capital firm Allegis Capital as a managing director. Allegis said Thursday DeWalt will invest on the company’s behalf in Series C funding rounds and serve as a board adviser of Maryland-based DataTribe, a cyber startup that co-develops cybersecurity, data and analytics. DataTribe and Allegis work together […] More

  • Bill Sullivan to Speak at Cloudera Government Forum in Colorado - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Sullivan to Speak at Cloudera Government Forum in Colorado

    Bill Sullivan, vice president and general manager for the North American public sector at Cloudera, is scheduled to speak on Nov. 7 at the company-hosted government forum to be held at Denver Art Museum in Colorado. Sullivan will discuss with industry and public sector leaders how the government can leverage cloud, analytics and machine learning […] More

  • Melanie Hagerty Promoted to VP Role at Cubic - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Melanie Hagerty Promoted to VP Role at Cubic

    Melanie Hagerty, formerly a chief engineer of Cubic‘s defense business segment, has been promoted to vice president of innovation in a move that takes effect Oct. 28. Cubic said Thursday the 13-year company veteran will be responsible for overseeing the company’s innovation programs and leading product concept development, customer partnership and social system modernization efforts. Hagerty has held […] More

  • Lockheed Vet Angel Hunt Joins ACT I as Senior Contracts Manager; Michael Niggel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Vet Angel Hunt Joins ACT I as Senior Contracts Manager; Michael Niggel Comments

    Angel Hunt, a veteran of Lockheed Martin and Hewlett-Packard, has been named  senior manager for contracts at Advanced Concepts and Technologies International. “Ms. Hunt’s background in the areas of contract negotiation, contract management and administration, cost control, and regulatory compliance will enhance our contracting capabilities and support ACT I’s continued growth.” ACT I CEO Michael Niggel said […] More

  • Keith E. Johnson, Joins Spire Global as VP and General Manager Federal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Keith E. Johnson, Joins Spire Global as VP and General Manager Federal

    Keith E. Johnson who holds more than 36 years of experience in the federal marketplace has recently joined Spire Global, a maritime, weather, and aviation data and analytics company as the vice president and general manager for the federal business. Johnson has extensive experience in business development, and building start-up company’s selling products and services to the federal […] More

  • Davis Johnson: Riverbed Hosts Discussions on Govt Cloud Adoption, Digital Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Davis Johnson: Riverbed Hosts Discussions on Govt Cloud Adoption, Digital Transformation

    Riverbed Technology has facilitated discussions on government cloud adoption at the company’s first annual “Disrupt” event for public sector leaders in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The event featured a keynote speech from Hansang Bae, Riverbed chief technology officer, where he discussed how federal agencies can deploy software-defined wide area network to simplify cloud systems, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Leidos’ Roger Krone: Georgia Tech Engineered Biosystems Facility to Seek Chronic Disease Treatments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ Roger Krone: Georgia Tech Engineered Biosystems Facility to Seek Chronic Disease Treatments

    Georgia Tech officially named the engineered biosystems building after Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, and his wife Helen during the university’s homecoming festivities held Friday in Atlanta. The Roger A. and Helen B. Krone Engineered Biosystems Building has a 219,000-square-foot space for offices and laboratories to facilitate research across systems biology, cell and developmental biology and chemical […] More

  • Leidos Gets Recognition for Work Under DARPA's Unmanned Anti-Submarine Vessel Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Gets Recognition for Work Under DARPA’s Unmanned Anti-Submarine Vessel Program

    Leidos has received recognition for its work to build an unmanned surface vessel under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. The science and technology company said Monday its GCN dig IT award in the robotics, automation and unmanned systems category covers its support for DARPA to develop the Sea Hunter unmanned […] More

  • Kaspersky Lab, Partners Introduce Cyber Talent Discovery Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kaspersky Lab, Partners Introduce Cyber Talent Discovery Program

    Kaspersky Lab has partnered with PWC, Dassault Systems and Schlumberger to facilitate a cybersecurity talent search program targeted at students and young professionals regardless of security background. The alliance seeks to help address a skills shortage in the information security industry through the Cybersecurity for the Next Generation program, Kaspersky said Friday. Participants will engage in various tasks such […] More

  • Angie Heise: Leidos to Extend Spaceflight Cargo Processing Support Under $159M NASA Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Angie Heise: Leidos to Extend Spaceflight Cargo Processing Support Under $159M NASA Award

    Leidos will continue to provide engineering services for ground processing of NASA spaceflight cargo under a potential $159 million contract the agency originally announced in mid-September. The Cargo Mission Contract 3 covers the use of multiple technology platforms for the company to pack cargo NASA would send to the International Space Station, Leidos said Thursday. Angie Heise, a […] More