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    KPMG Launches Leadership Initiative for Women; Names Condoleezza Rice as Ambassador

    KPMG has inaugurated a new college scholarship, mentoring and leadership development program for female high school seniors in the U.S. and appointed former state secretary Condoleezza Rice as the ambassador. The professional service firm said Wednesday 16 scholars have been chosen for the first batch of its KPMG Future Leaders Program. KPMG added the recipients will receive $10,000 for each year […] More

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    Leidos Eyes Analytic Software Devt Task Orders Under Army IDIQ Contract; John Fratamico Comments

    Leidos will compete for task orders to develop analytic software and related platforms for the Army Research Laboratory’s sensors electron devices directorate under a potential five-year, $250 million contract the U.S. Army awarded in May. The company will design software platforms that work to facilitate integration of large data sets and sensor redeployment in order […] More

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    Iron Mountain Appoints Rachel Wilson as Finance Senior Vice President

    Iron Mountain has named Rachel Wilson, former Jarden Corporation vice president, as the company’s senior vice president for finance. She will assume the responsibilities held by Jeff Lawrence, the previous senior vice president and treasurer who will retire after 28 years of working with the company, Iron Mountain said Monday. Wilson will oversee Iron Mountain’s treasury, enterprise financial […] More

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    Oceaneering CEO Kevin McEvoy Joins Emcor’s Board of Directors; Stephen Bershad Comments

    Kevin McEvoy, CEO of deep water energy and engineering services provider Oceaneering International, has joined the board of directors of Emcor Group. McEvoy was elected to the board at Emcors’ annual meeting of stockholders, the company said Thursday. He is also the chairman of the National Ocean Industry Association, director of the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers’ Association and a member of […] More

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    Fulcrum Receives Employee Talent Development Helios HR Apollo Award; Jeff Handy Comments

    Helios HR has presented Fulcrum with a 2016 Helios HR Apollo Award under the employee assimilation & onboarding category during the Apollo Awards ceremony held Wednesday at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia. Fulcrum was one of 33 finalists for the award and was also a nominee for the employment brand, employee mentorship/coaching and employee recognition distinctions, the company […] More

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    Lockheed EVP Rick Ambrose to Speak at Atlantic Council’s ‘Captains of Industry Series’

    The Atlantic Council‘s Captains of Industry Series will feature Rick Ambrose, a Lockheed Martin executive vice president, in its next event on June 8, 2016. The Council said that Ambrose will hold a discussion on Lockheed’s opinion in the evolving space sector. The Captains of Industry Series showcases aerospace and defense industry senior executives and their opinions on matters that affect the industry to help constituents […] More

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    Mitre Unveils 8 Finalists for $100K Unauthorized Drone Detection System Contest

    Mitre has announced the eight finalists that will compete at the live flight test as part of the final round of the Countering Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems Challenge. The finalists were selected out of 42 submissions for the C-UAS competition that seeks new systems designed to detect and interdict unauthorized, small drones that pose security […] More

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    Ankura Appoints New Senior Executives to its SEC Enforcement and Forensic Accounting Practice

    Ankura Consulting Group said Monday that they have appointed Martin Wilczynski, Jason Flemmons and Amy Gonce to senior managing director positions in its U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement and forensic accounting practice under its corporate investigations and financial forensic group. Wilczynki has worked with worked as a SEC staff for six years with a focus on Department of Justice […] More

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    Phacil Appears in Virginia Fantastic 50 Fastest Growing Companies List for Fourth Consecutive Year

    Federal technology services provider Phacil has been featured in the Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s Fantastic 50 Fastest Growing Companies list for the fourth consecutive year. Phacil and other Fantastic 50 companies were recognized in a banquet held on April 29 at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia with more than 400 in attendees, Phacil said May 2. “It is an […] More

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    VA, Nonprofit LeanIn.Org Forge Women Veterans Support Alliance; Ashley Finch Comments

    The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Center for Women Veterans and nonprofit organization LeanIn.Org have formed a partnership in an effort to provide support to women veterans. The LeanIn.Org Women Veterans’ chapter initiative consists of pilot programs, where women veterans will participate in peer-to-peer meetings and share leadership skills with fellow women veterans and non-military members, VA […] More

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    Parsons Names Jon Moretta Regional Business Development SVP for Industrial Unit

    Parsons has named Jon Moretta as the industrial business unit’s North America West division senior vice president of business development. The company said Wednesday Moretta will work to drive support to refining and chemical industry clients through the advancement of Parsons’ industrial growth strategies. “Jon has considerable experience in strategic development in upstream, midstream and downstream petroleum, chemicals and […] More

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    Parsons to Provide R&D, Engineering Support Under Naval Research Lab IDIQ Contract; Mary Ann Hopkins Comments

    Parsons will provide engineering services as well as research and development support to the Naval Research Laboratory’s information technology division under a potential five-year, $245 million contract awarded by the U.S. Navy in May. The company said Tuesday it will work to support NRL-ITD across seven research areas that include artificial intelligence, data storage and computing, communications, security, […] More