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    UnitedHealthcare Offers 2 Text-Messaging Services for Medicaid Enrollees; Susan Schick Comments

    UnitedHealth Group‘s UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Pennsylvania has unveiled two text-messaging services from Voxiva to enable its Medicaid enrollees in York, Allegheny and Philadelphia counties to manage and monitor their own health and well-being. Txt4health is designed to send personalized messages on medical appointments, schedule of medication, preventive care guidelines and other health tips, while Text4kids alerts parents on their child’s check-ups, vaccines […] More

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    Informatica Presents 12 Customers With Innovation Awards; Marge Breya Comments

    Informatica has selected 12 organizations from among 5,000 of its customers for the 2014 Informatica Innovation Awards for leveraging the company’s data integration offerings to boost business. The award winners were honored at last week’s Informatica World event in Las Vegas, the company said Thursday. “Each year, Informatica Innovation Awards winners demonstrate the transformative power of clean, […] More

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    Exhibit Highlights Exelis Role as NASA Partner, Deep Space Network Provider; Pam Drew Comments

    Exelis marked its continued partnership with NASA in advancing space exploration with an exhibit at the ongoing Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. The event highlights 50 years of the agency’s Deep Space Network program, a global network of antennas tasked to communicate with spacecraft missions, the company said Monday. Exelis provides support in the form […] More

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    Ret. USAF Col. James Buchman Joins SPECTRUM Group’s Consulting Team; Stephen Loftus Comments

    James Buchman, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined The SPECTRUM Group‘s Air Force team following 25 years of military service, bringing his public and private sector work experience to the company’s consulting practice. “His substantial expertise in Air Force and Foreign Military Sales programs, as well as his deep understanding of education and training concepts, […] More

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    Randall Male Joins Bostonia Partners as Energy Sector Managing Director

    Randall Male, formerly president of REM Energy, has joined Bostonia Partners LLC as a managing director of its renewable energy sector. He will be based in the firm’s Boston office and oversee Bostonia’s renewable energy investment practice and financing services development, Bostonia said Thursday. The 25-year veteran finance executive previously served as director of strategic […] More

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    AMERICAN SYSTEMS Named Small Business Partner of the Year at SECAF Awards; Peter Smith Comments

    AMERICAN SYSTEMS has received the Small Business Partner of the Year award at the Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum in recognition of the company’s efforts to assist small businesses through mentorships, partnerships and other programs. The company, along with other government contractors involved in the small business community, was honored during this year’s Government Contractor Awards Gala on May […] More

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    CTC CFO Margaret DiVirgilio Receives Award for Procurement Work With NDIA; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Margaret DiVirgilio, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Concurrent Technologies Corp., has received the Howard H. Cork Memorial Award for her work with the National Defense Industrial Association’s procurement division. The award is given to select members of NDIA’s procurement committee for their contributions to the association, the defense industry and national security agencies, […] More

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    SAIC Receives Cisco Certification Under Tech Partner Program; Doug Wagoner Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a Cisco gold-level certificate for meeting networking competency and customer satisfaction goals under a technology re-seller program. Cisco’s Resale Channel Program offers a framework designed to help Cisco partners deliver a range of the company’s technology and service offerings to U.S. clients, SAIC said Thursday. “We are pleased to […] More

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    Financial Aid Mgmt Veteran Bob Evans Joins Attain as Managing Director; Greg Baroni Comments

    Bob Evans, former president and CEO of Evans Consulting Group, has joined Attain as managing director and will oversee the formation of a new financial aid management and student services practice. The practice, to be established under the company’s Higher Education and Academic Medical Centers division, is expected to address institutions’ operational, enrollment and retention concerns, Attain said […] More

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    Teresa Carlson, Kay Kapoor Join Professional Services Council Advisory Board for Tech

    Teresa Carlson, vice president for the global public sector business at Amazon Web Services, and Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T Government Services, have joined the Professional Services Council’s executive advisory board for technology policies, FCW reported Tuesday. Jonathan Lutton writes other new additions to the Technology Policy Council include Attain LLC Chairman and CEO Greg Baroni and […] More

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    Northrop to Help Univ. of North Dakota Train UAS Pilots; Bob Gamache Comments

    Northrop Grumman has inked a three-year cooperative agreement with the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks to provide pilot training for unmanned aircraft systems through the SandShark trainer technology. The company said Tuesday it will contribute two SandShark aircraft and one ground station to the university’s flight training program for international students. SandShark operators utilize commercial broadband Internet or 4G cellular […] More

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    Army-NSTA eCYBERMISSION Contest Names 20 Regional-Winning Teams; Louie Lopez Comments

    Twenty student teams in grades six through nine from across the U.S. have been named as regional winners in the eCYBERMISSION competition after their “missions” to address community challenges were selected from among 80 finalists. The National Science Teachers Association, which collaborated with the Army Educational Outreach Program for the event, said Tuesday the teams will […] More