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  • Lockheed's Marillyn Hewson Receives Howard Hughes Memorial Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson Receives Howard Hughes Memorial Award

    Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, has received the 39th Howard Hughes Memorial Award from the Aero Club of Southern California in recognition of her accomplishments as an aerospace industry executive. Lockheed said Thursday the Howard Hughes Memorial Award was established in 1978 and is presented annually to an aerospace leader who has “significantly” contributed to […] More

  • Treasury Dept Vet James Mackie Joins EY in Director Role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Treasury Dept Vet James Mackie Joins EY in Director Role

    James Mackie, former director of the Treasury Department‘s Office of Tax Analysis, has joined Ernst and Young as co-director of the company’s quantitative economics and statistics group. The more than 30-year Treasury veteran will lead the Washington, D.C.-based QUEST group with  Robert Carroll, said Thursday. In his previous role, Mackie led OTA’s efforts to analyze and produce reports on […] More

  • LMI CEO David Zolet Named to FirstNet Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI CEO David Zolet Named to FirstNet Board

    David Zolet, CEO of management consulting firm LMI, has been appointed to the First Responder Network Authority’s board of directors. Zolet will serve a three-year term on the board that oversees FirstNet’s work with AT&T to build and run a national broadband network for first responders, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross […] More

  • Battelle Hires Sharon Collinge to Lead NSF-Sponsored Natl Ecological Observation Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Hires Sharon Collinge to Lead NSF-Sponsored Natl Ecological Observation Network

    Battelle has appointed Sharon Collinge, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, as director and chief scientist of an ecological observation facility that the nonprofit company manages for the National Science Foundation. She will lead the NSF-funded National Ecological Observatory Network that works to gather and shares open data meant to help the user community characterize and […] More

  • INSA Names 6 GovCon Execs to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Names 6 GovCon Execs to Board of Directors

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has appointed six government contracting industry executives to its board of directors to help oversee INSA’s business operations and strategic planning efforts. INSA Chairman Letitia Long said in a statement published Tuesday the six new directors’ experience and commitment to public-private partnerships will help the alliance respond to industry and develop […] More

  • Parsons Launches Fellows Program for Technical Professionals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Launches Fellows Program for Technical Professionals

    Parsons has formed a Fellows Program in a move to recognize the company’s top technical professionals and encourage innovation in helping customers address technical challenges. Members of the Fellows Program will be appointed based on their expertise in a scientific, engineering or technology discipline; industry recognition and awards; and contributions to Parsons’ projects and programs, among […] More

  • Bryan Lewis Named President and CEO of Intellicheck - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bryan Lewis Named President and CEO of Intellicheck

    Bryan Lewis, a 30-year financial services and technology industry veteran, has been appointed president and CEO of Intellicheck in a move slated to take effect Feb. 21. He will be based at Intellicheck’s headquarters in Jericho, New York, the company said Wednesday. Lewis served as chief operating officer of Third Bridge, which saw its workforce and compound annual growth […] More

  • Kelsey DeBriyn Promoted to Raytheon Investor Relations VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kelsey DeBriyn Promoted to Raytheon Investor Relations VP

    Kelsey DeBriyn has been promoted to vice president of investor relations at Raytheon and succeeded Todd Ernst, who became VP of corporate development in October 2017. Raytheon said Tuesday DeBriyn will lead investor community engagement programs and interact with analysts and institutional investors to inform them about the company’s franchise programs, business objectives, performance, prospects and outlook. […] More

  • Kroll Names FBI Vet Matthew Dunn Associate Managing Director for Cyber & Investigations Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kroll Names FBI Vet Matthew Dunn Associate Managing Director for Cyber & Investigations Practice

    Matthew Dunn, a 20-year FBI veteran, has joined Kroll as associate managing director within its cybersecurity and investigations practice in Nashville, Tennessee. Kroll said Tuesday Dunn most recently led the bureau’s Nashville-based cyber crimes and counterintelligence squad as a supervisory special agent. He began his FBI career in 1997 as special agent in the Philadelphia field office and later held […] More

  • Maury Blackman Appointed Premise Data President, CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maury Blackman Appointed Premise Data President, CEO

    Maury Blackman, formerly president and CEO of San Ramon, California-based government technology company Accela, has been appointed to similar roles at Premise Data. Blackman will help Premise Data provide government agencies and companies with a data and analytics platform designed to help them derive actionable intelligence from data gathered by a “network of on-the-ground contributors,” […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Unit Distributes $101K in Gulf Coast School STEM Grants - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Unit Distributes $101K in Gulf Coast School STEM Grants

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has provided $101,000 in grant funds to support 26 science, technology, engineering and math programs in two Gulf Coast states. The company said Tuesday it has awarded more than $911,000 to different STEM projects and initiatives to over the past 10 years. Edmond Hughes, vice president of human resources and administration at […] More

  • Knight Point Systems Makes List of 100 'Best Places to Work' in Virginia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Knight Point Systems Makes List of 100 ‘Best Places to Work’ in Virginia

    Knight Point Systems has been recognized by Virginia Business and Best Companies Group as one of the 100 “best places to work” in Virginia for 2018. The Reston-based information technology services contractor ranked second among 26 large employers featured on this year’s list. Virginia Business and Best Companies Group compiled the list after a two-part survey […] More