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    Joseph Mejaly Named General Dynamics Subsidiary’s VP, GM

    Joseph L. Mejaly has been selected to serve as the next vice president and general manager of AxleTech International, a subsidiary of General Dynamics. In his new role, Mejaly will be responsible for implementing strategies of continued product development and delivery within the company’s global management team, General Dynamics announced Friday. AxleTech, a developer of […] More

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    Boeing, Ethiopian Airlines Partner with Non-profits to Deliver Medical, Educational Supplies in Ethiopia

    Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines have partnered with two non-profit organizations to deliver 7,300 pounds of medical and educational supplies to Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. The companies delivered the supplies through Boeing’s 777-300 Extended Range airplane that is currently leased to the airlines, Boeing announced Monday. The program with Seattle Alliance Outreach […] More

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    John Campagnino: Accenture Pushes Initiative for More STEM Students, Professionals

    Accenture has partnered with universities worldwide for an initiative intended meet the increasing demand for science, technology, engineering and math professionals, John Campagnino, managing director for global talent acquisition, The company launched the Future Technology Leaders program to develop student interest in those fields toward professional careers, Accenture said Friday. “Teaming with universities around the […] More

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    Melissa Koskovich: Selecting Leidos Name Was International Venture

    As we recently covered, SAIC is continuing to hone in on its management structure as the company moves forward after the legacy SAIC separated into two companies – the ‘new’ SAIC (Science Applications International Corp.), and Leidos. As a new brand, Leidos leaders have needed to introduce and position the firm to the GovCon marketplace, […] More

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    Ingalls Shipbuilding to Name STEM Grant Awardees

    Ingalls Shipbuilding will hold a ceremony on Friday to announce the awardees of the company’s $107,000 science, technology, engineering and mathematics grant program for Gulf Coast school districts. The awards will be held at the division’s visitor control center in Pascagoula, Miss., Huntington Ingalls announced Wednesday. Irwin Edenzon, Ingalls president, will present STEM grant checks to […] More

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    Dell to Help Start Solar Lab in South Africa

    Dell is working with the Students’ Health and Welfare Centres Organisation to launch the company’s first solar laboratory in South Africa’s Western Cape region on Jan. 30, the South Africa The Good News reported Thursday. The Dell Solar Lab will be at SHAWCO’s facility in Kensington and work to serve more than 300 students and 150 community members […] More

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    MWR InfoSecurity Wins Raytheon UK Cyber Technical Research Contest

    Raytheon UK has selected MWR InfoSecurity as the winner of a technical research competition in cybersecurity for small medium enterprise, with the latter company taking home a $66,600 prize. MWR InfoSecurity was selected out of three short-listed SMEs and was recognized for its work develop an analysis tool for rogue code detection in Android applications, […] More

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    Larry Sikes of SAIC Picked for NASA Johnson Space Center Award

    Larry Sikes, a member of the mission assurance engineering contract team at Science Applications International Corp., has been selected to receive the NASA Johnson Space Center’s Silver Snoopy Award. The award is given to individuals who have made significant contributions to the future of human space flight, SAIC said Tuesday. “The Silver Snoopy award is the […] More

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    Northrop Surveillance Demo Plane Hits 100K Combat Flight Hours

    Northrop Grumman‘s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstration aircraft has exceeded the 100,000-combat flight hour mark for the U.S. Navy since the aircraft’s initial six-month deployment in 2009. The Navy has used the BAMS-D to support maritime surveillance missions, Northrop said Wednesday. Capt. James Hoke, Triton program manager at the Naval Air Systems Command, said the branch […] More

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    Katie Crotty, Praescient CEO, Inducted Into Truman Defense Council

    Katie Crotty, CEO of Praescient Analytics, has been inducted into the 2014 class of The Truman National Security Project’s Truman Defense Council, a Washington-based leadership development program. The council is comprised of military veterans currently in the business community that carry out training and conferences to discuss issues such as national security and foreign relations, […] More

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    Rick Doten of DMI to Present at Cybersecurity Forum

    Rick Doten, chief information security officer at Digital Management, Inc., will present at an upcoming cybersecurity conference to be held at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. Doten will speak about mobile application security at the 2014 Cybersecurity Innovation Forum on Wednesday during the Trusted Computing discussion at 4:30 p.m., DMI said Thursday. The […] More

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    SAP to Expand Partnership with Indian Entrepreneurship Program; K. Srikrishna Comments

    SAP Labs India will continue working with India’s National Entrepreneurship Network for the second consecutive year with a goal to train 30 mentors that will then train another 120 up-and-coming entrepreneurs on business management, CIOL reported Friday. SAP and NEN were able to teach 38 mentors, who then taught 72 entrepreneurs across the country, during the […] More