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  • CSRA’s Christian Marrone Named GW Cyber & Homeland Security Center Senior Fellow - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA’s Christian Marrone Named GW Cyber & Homeland Security Center Senior Fellow

    Christian Marrone, external relations senior vice president and chief of staff at CSRA, has been named by the George Washington University as a senior fellow at its Center for Cyber and Homeland Security for a two-year term that began this month. Marrone will provide counsel and contribute to the center’s policy task forces and projects; serve as […] More

  • Referentia Cyber Center to Host Defense Info Security Policy Training for Contractors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Referentia Cyber Center to Host Defense Info Security Policy Training for Contractors

    Referentia Systems‘ Cyber Collaboration Center will hold training sessions on a new Defense Department policy that requires contractors to adopt measures to protect a new category of unclassified but sensitive information called “Covered Defense Information.” The DFARS 7012 Cybersecurity Compliance Boot Camp will include forums on Oct. 20 at the Hilton San Diego Airport/Harbor Island in California […] More

  • Leidos to Sponsor Army-Navy Soccer Cup; Gerry Fasano Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Sponsor Army-Navy Soccer Cup; Gerry Fasano Comments

    Leidos has entered a three-year agreement with Keystone Sports and Entertainment, owner of soccer club The Philadelphia Union, to become a local presenting sponsor of an annual soccer competition between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. The Army-Navy Cup VI is scheduled to take place on Oct. 15 at the Talen Energy Stadium in Pennsylvania, Leidos said Monday. Gerry […] More

  • Siemens Donates to Hire Heroes USA for Military Vet Employment Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Donates to Hire Heroes USA for Military Vet Employment Services

    Siemens‘ philanthropic arm has donated $30,000 to the Hire Heroes USA nonprofit organization that offers job sourcing and coaching support services for military veterans, spouses and service members transitioning to civilian life. Two-thirds of the donation will be designated to a presenting sponsorship of the 2017 Marine Corps Marathon and remaining money will go toward a […] More

  • BAE Systems to Showcase Military Vehicles, Munitions at AUSA Expo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems to Showcase Military Vehicles, Munitions at AUSA Expo

    BAE Systems will conduct media briefings and feature its products at the 2017 Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition from Oct. 9 to 11 in Washington, D.C., BAE said Friday. Combat vehicles and precision-guided munitions technologies will be the focus of the briefings on Oct. 9 and 10 at the Walter […] More

  • Raytheon Unveils National Apprenticeship Center in England - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Unveils National Apprenticeship Center in England

    Raytheon has inaugurated a national apprenticeship center in Doncaster, England, to primarily offer training programs for automotive technicians. The company said Friday its professional services subsidiary will use the center to provide learning services to employers and apprentices through classroom discussions, virtual training and site visits. “With a capacity of about 70 students, the new center will deliver […] More

  • BlackBerry to Donate Crisis Communication Tech for American Red Cross Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry to Donate Crisis Communication Tech for American Red Cross Missions

    Blackberry has extended a partnership with the American Red Cross to continue support for the nonprofit organization’s disaster response missions with a company-made emergency communication platform. Red Cross plans to deploy the AtHoc system to almost 500 branches nationwide as part of efforts to facilitate communications between the organization and its staff members, government agencies and volunteers in […] More

  • Salesforce to Invest $50M in K-12 Computer Science Education - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salesforce to Invest $50M in K-12 Computer Science Education

    Salesforce has pledged to invest $50 million and one million volunteer hours over five years in K-12 computer science education across the U.S. The company said Tuesday its Salesforce.org charity arm will offer 10 free Salesforce software subscriptions to all eligible public K-12 schools nationwide. Salesforce.org also plans to grant $1 million to nonprofit organization Code.org to help increase […] More

  • Belfer Center’s Melissa Hathaway to Discuss Cybersecurity in UN University-Hosted Conversation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Belfer Center’s Melissa Hathaway to Discuss Cybersecurity in UN University-Hosted Conversation

    Melissa Hathaway, a senior adviser at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will participate in a United Nations University-hosted conversation on cybersecurity to be held on Oct. 4 in Tokyo, Japan. Hathaway will discuss the current cybersecurity landscape and establishment of a universal framework for voluntary norms of behavior in cyber […] More

  • Roger Krone to Discuss Leidos' Opioid Awareness Campaign at COMMIT!Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Krone to Discuss Leidos’ Opioid Awareness Campaign at COMMIT!Forum

    Leidos CEO Roger Krone will discuss the company’s efforts to help address opioid abuse at the COMMIT!Forum, an event for corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioners scheduled to take place from Oct. 10 to 12 at MGM National Harbor in Maryland. Clay Stamp, an adviser to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, will join Krone in the discussion and […] More

  • John McCumber Joins (ISC)2 as Cybersecurity Advocacy Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John McCumber Joins (ISC)2 as Cybersecurity Advocacy Director

    John McCumber, former director of Gartner‘s security and risk management consulting practice, has been named director of cybersecurity advocacy at The International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)2. He will oversee (ISC)2’s partnership with government, academic and commercial organizations in efforts to promote public-private collaboration, cybersecurity curriculum and legislation designed to help address critical security […] More