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    Avwatch Appoints Homeland Security, Disaster Recovery Vet Larry Gagliano as Field Operations Specialist

    Avwatch has appointed Larry Gagliano, formerly Alpha Omega Change Engineering‘s director of domestic operations and airborne networking, as a field operations specialist based in Washington. Gagliano has worked in the homeland security and disaster recovery industry for nearly 25 years and has handled National Reconnaissance Office programs at Rockwell Collins and systems engineering at BAE Systems, Avwatch said […] More

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    Parsons to Present at Two Info Security Conferences; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Parsons is scheduled to present at the Black Hat USA 2016 and DEF CON 24 conferences on information security in Las Vegas during the month of August. At the Black Hat conference scheduled July 30 through August 4, the company will demonstrate its smart city technology designed to help identify cyber vulnerabilities in critical infrastructures, Parsons […] More

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    Steven Demetriou Adds Board Chairman Role at Jacobs; Linda Fayne Levinson Named Lead Director

    Jacobs Engineering Group has appointed Steven Demetriou, company president and CEO, to take the additional role of chairman of the board and named Linda Fayne Levinson, a director at Jacobs and VendareNetblue chairman, as lead director. “The board concluded it is in the best interest of the company and its shareholders to combine the roles of chairman and CEO,” Noel […] More

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    Salient CRGT Promotes John Edgar as SVP; Kevin Bahumian & Anuj Mathur to VP

    Salient CRGT has elevated John Edgar, former company vice president and chief strategist for information technology transformation, as a senior VP while Kevin Bahumian and Anuj Mathur have been promoted to the roles of vice president from their former directorial positions. The software development and technology services company said Thursday Edgar will continue to manage Salient’s innovation centers and provide leadership […] More

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    Elizabeth Buske to Lead SPARC as Marc Murphy Steps Down

    SPARC is an Agile Systems Delivery Hub of Booz Allen Hamilton, located in Charleston, SC. Elizabeth Buske, a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton has been selected to succeed Marc Murphy at the Charleston, South Carolina-based software development firm, The Post and Courier reported Wedneday. Thad Moore writes Murphy, who also serves as vice president at […] More

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    Army, Navy Commend Top FY 2013-2015 Defense Suppliers in Incentive Program; Katrina McFarland, Sean Stackley Comment

    The U.S. Army and Navy have released their respective lists of vendors the services commend for the companies’ performance as defense suppliers across the fiscal years 2013 through 2015. The fiscal year 2016 Superior Supplier Incentive Program list identifies the top-performing business units within defense corporations and provides opportunities for those businesses to discuss prospects with […] More

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    NCR Receives Second USPS Supplier Performance Award; Stan Ratcliffe Comments

    NCR has received a second Supplier Performance Award from the U.S. Postal Service which recognizes the company’s supply chain management and customer service support for post offices across the U.S. The Duluth, Georgia-based company said Wednesday it accepted the distinction June 29 during the 2015 Supplier Performance Awards ceremony and reception at the USPS Headquarters Building in Washington. “NCR takes great pride in its long-standing […] More

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    Air Force Association Partner with AT&T to Hold First AFA CyberCamps

    The Air Force Association has partnered with AT&T to hold the first edition of AFA Cybercamps, a series of week-long seminars that seek to introduce cyber ethics and network security topics to school-age students. AFA said Monday its CyberPatriot program will host 83 CyberCamps across the nation, two of which, the California and Texas camps, were hosted by AT&T […] More

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    Compuware, ViaSat Join CompTIA Public Sector Councils

    ViaSat, a global broadband services and technology company, and mainframe-dedicated software provider Compuware  have joined CompTIA‘s Space Enterprise Council and State and Local Government and Education Council respectively. CompTIA said Monday that the two companies are the newest members of its Public Sector Councils. Peter Kaminskas, CompTIA member relations vice president, said Compuware’s experience working with local […] More

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    ULA-Ball Aerospace-Space Foundation Team Launches Student, Intern-Built Rockets & Payloads

    United Launch Alliance, Ball Aerospace and the Space Foundation have sponsored the launch of two rockets built by ULA interns with payloads that Ball interns and Colorado K-12 students created. ULA — a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin — said Sunday the event included efforts to launch the 50-foot-tall Future Heavy and 10-foot-tall Genesis rockets to simulate real-life missions and encourage students to pursue careers […] More

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    AFCEA DC Elects Executive Board Members for 2016-2017; Dean Economou Comments

    The Washington-based chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association has elected new members to its executive board for 2016 to 2017 and named Dean Economou, sales director for the Defense Department program at CenturyLink, as president. Nathan Jones, vice president of federal sales at Red Hat, will serve as executive VP of AFCEA […] More