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  • Roger Waesche, COPT President and CEO, Discusses 2014 Growth Opportunities
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    Roger Waesche, COPT President and CEO, Discusses 2014 Growth Opportunities

    Corporate Office Properties Trust has provided guidance for its diluted FFO per share, COPT said Jan. 7. “In 2013, we completed our strategic repositioning initiatives, which greatly improved the quality of our portfolio and the strength of our balance sheet,” said Roger Waesche, Jr., COPT president and CEO. The FFO for 2014 is in the […] More

  • Executive Mosaic Announces 2013 Wash100 Inductees, Shines Light on Leaders Driving Public Value Amid Historic Market Change
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    Executive Mosaic Announces 2013 Wash100 Inductees, Shines Light on Leaders Driving Public Value Amid Historic Market Change

    Click here to view the full list of GovCon and Government Leaders inducted into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 in 2013. The 2013 GovCon market saw a historic period of turmoil, uncertainty and change that will impact GovCon firms, the federal government and U.S. citizens for years. As the Asia pivot took hold, next-gen technologies grew up […] More

  • Lou Von Thaer of Leidos on Cyber Trends, ISR Collaborations and His Bell Labs Origins
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    Lou Von Thaer of Leidos on Cyber Trends, ISR Collaborations and His Bell Labs Origins

    Lou Von Thaer started a new chapter of his three-decade GovCon career in June 2013 as president of a business once part of Science Applications International Corp. that eventually became Leidos‘ national security sector. Von Thaer now leads a team of 13,000 professionals in the sector after previously leading 7,000 employees at General Dynamics Advanced […] More

  • Deb Alderson: Sotera Extends FBI Work with Sentinel Maintenance Task Order
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    Deb Alderson: Sotera Extends FBI Work with Sentinel Maintenance Task Order

    Sotera Defense Solutions has been awarded a $60 million task order to help the FBI maintain its Sentinel information and case management program. The five-year order falls under the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 Unrestricted Government-Wide Acquisition Contract, Sotera announced Tuesday. “Sotera is honored to be awarded this contract with Sentinel, which is used by the dedicated men […] More

  • Telos to Help Air Force Squadron Operate Global Info Grid Portion
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    Telos to Help Air Force Squadron Operate Global Info Grid Portion

    Telos Corp. has been awarded a task order U.S. Air Force network operations squadron to help configure and maintain an enterprise network that is part of the Defense Department‘s Global Information Grid. The 561 Network Operations Squadron helps Air Force and joint commands operate their core networks, Telos announced Tuesday. Charisse Stokes, Telos vice president of cybersecurity and network […] More

  • Suncor Energy Picks Jacobs Engineering for Oil Sands, Plant Services Contract
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    Suncor Energy Picks Jacobs Engineering for Oil Sands, Plant Services Contract

    Jacobs Engineering has been awarded a two-year oil sands and plant services contract by Suncor Energy Services to work at the Fort McMurray Base Plan in Edmonton, Alberta. Jacobs will provide management services and plant maintenance support for mechanical, rotating and operating equipment, Jacobs announced Tuesday. “We have provided services to Suncor at their facilities across […] More

  • Verizon to Add Capacity in Santa Clara Data Center
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    Verizon to Add Capacity in Santa Clara Data Center

    Verizon Terremark is adding 4 megawatts of power capacity in its Santa Clara, Calif. data center by installing Active Power electrical infrastructure containers in the roof, Data Center Dynamics reported Friday. Yevgeniy Sverdlik writes that the PowerHouse containers are intended to grow capacity without expanding the building and are built with uninterruptible power supply systems, switchgear and monitoring […] More

  • Northrop Helps Cal Poly Open New Cyber Lab; Wes Bush Comments
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    Northrop Helps Cal Poly Open New Cyber Lab; Wes Bush Comments

    Northrop Grumman has donated approximately $150,000 to California Polytechnic for electronic infrastructure at the school’s new cybersecurity, Mustang News reported Friday. Samantha Sullivan writes that Northrop CEO Wes Bush attended the launch of the new lab along with Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong and other executives from McAfee and Raytheon. The Cal Poly-Northrop Grumman Cyber Lab was built […] More

  • DynCorp Receives Engineering Task Order for UAE-Stationed Air Force Squadron
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    DynCorp Receives Engineering Task Order for UAE-Stationed Air Force Squadron

    DynCorp International will provide engineering design and support services to a U.S. Air Force squadron currently stationed in the United Arab Emirates. The company will perform the work under a potential three-year task order worth up to $4.4 million over one base year and two option years, DynCorp announced Friday. This order falls under the Air Force Contract Augmentation […] More

  • Northrop, NASA Move Webb Telescope Spacecraft Through Design Review
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    Northrop, NASA Move Webb Telescope Spacecraft Through Design Review

    An independent panel of experts has completed the critical design review on the spacecraft for the James Webb Space Telescope, which Northrop Grumman is building for NASA. The review finished five months ahead of schedule and took place after 76 preceding reviews of the telescope’s spacecraft, Northrop announced Friday. Northrop is building the spacecraft to point the […] More

  • NNSA Receives Final Turbine Blades for Siemens-Built Wind Farm; Judy Marks on Gov’t Energy Goals
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    NNSA Receives Final Turbine Blades for Siemens-Built Wind Farm; Judy Marks on Gov’t Energy Goals

    The National Nuclear Security Administration has received the final wind turbines for a wind farm in Amarillo, Texas that is being built by Siemens Government Technologies, the German conglomerate’s U.S. federal business organization. Siemens has set the operational date for the Pantex Renewable Energy Project as July 31, 2014 — nearly a year after NNSA and […] More

  • Carlos Fernandes Named Director of the Cybersecurity Center at Salient Federal; Bill Parker Comments
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    Carlos Fernandes Named Director of the Cybersecurity Center at Salient Federal; Bill Parker Comments

    Carlos Fernandes has been named director of Salient Federal Solutions’ cybersecurity center of excellence where he will be responsible for the company’s cybersecurity strategy and growing the innovations offered by the CSCoE, Salient said Thursday. Fernandes served as founder, managing principal and CEO of cybersecurity consulting services company Agile Cyber Security Solutions prior to the Salient […] More