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BUSINESS NEWS VENCORE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR NAMED INAUGURAL NEIL ARMSTRONG AWARD OF EXCELLENCE HONOREE Vencore, Inc. announced that Patrick T. Biltgen, Ph.D., technical director of analytics, has been named the inaugural winner of the Neil Armstrong Award of Excellence. Biltgen will receive the award at the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s Innovators Gala on September 16, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The award is presented to a former ASF scholar whose research and work has made a positive impact on industry and who exemplifies a passion to expand the boundaries of exploration through science and technology. Biltgen is a two-time ASF scholar having received the award in both 2001 and 2002. “At Vencore we are tasked with solving our customers’ most difficult problems,” said Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Vencore, Inc. “And we couldn’t do that if it weren’t for the ground-breaking innovators we employ. We congratulate Pat on this well-deserved award, and are proud that he is part of the Vencore family.” Over the last several years, Biltgen has used innovative methods for data integration and analysis to further the advancement of activity- based intelligence. Additionally, Biltgen is the co-author of the textbook Activity-Based Intelligence: Principles and Applications . Advancements in ABI have benefitted the United States military and intelligence community by locating and identifying explosive caches used to manufacture improvised explosive devices, saving dozens of soldiers’ lives. In addition to his contributions to the U.S. military and intelligence community, Biltgen’s work has also had a positive

impact on humanitarian efforts through the documentation of treaty violations and monitoring relief efforts in the Middle East. Vencore is a proven provider of information solutions, engineering, and analytics for the U.S. government. With more than 40 years of experience working in the defense, civilian ,and intelligence communities, Vencore and its transformational applied research organization, Vencore Labs, design, develop, and deliver high impact, mission-critical services and solutions to overcome its customers most complex problems. SGT AWARDED PRIME CONTRACT WITH US ARMY Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. , a leading provider of engineering and professional services and solutions to U.S. federal government agencies, announced the award of a prime contract by the U.S. Army for the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services Program. The RS3 multiple award contract will provide professional engineering support services for programs with command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance requirements, on a task order basis. The RS3 contract vehicle was procured through a full and open competition, with awards to large businesses and small businesses. The ordering period consists of a five-year base and one five-year option period, with task order performance potentially extending five years beyond the ordering period. The RS3 ceiling value is $37.4 billion. Areas of support include engineering, research, development, test and evaluation, logistics, acquisition and strategic planning, and education and training. RS3 will replace

five existing or expired Army contract vehicles. The Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground is the RS3 Program Office. Customers may include ACC-APG C4ISR customers, other Army Program Executive Offices, other Department of Defense agencies, and other federal agencies with C4ISR-related missions. Individual task orders may be performed at government and/or contractor sites including overseas locations. Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Greenbelt, Maryland, delivers end-to-end engineering, integration, test, and research capability necessary to develop high quality mission solutions for the DoD, intelligence community, NASA, and other U.S. government customers. BURNS GROWS CENTRAL FLORIDA PRESENCE, OPENS NEW ORLANDO OFFICE Burns Group has expanded its presence in Central Florida. The firm is excited to announce its new office location in downtown Orlando to support its growth in the region. The new space ensures that Burns will continue to deliver extraordinary value to its growing list of Florida and Southeastern U.S. clients, and enables the firm to attract the very best talent in the region. Bryan Mehaffey, PMP, RCDD, Director of Operations – Southeast Region and Orlando office manager, leads Burns’ expert team in Orlando, and will help continue to grow and strengthen the firm’s Florida operations. The address of the new location is 300 South Orange Avenue, Suite 150 Orlando, FL 32801

the bad taste in my mouth. I would be highly unlikely to give this professional my money for anything, and I am turned off from the internet clothing line (which has a horrible name by the way, similar to: Simply and Truly Us Clothing). For all you leaders of AEC firms, this isn’t just about online marketing and social media. It’s about every employee, how proposals are presented, and who you send to visit a client. Being real and authentic is hard to put a numeric rating on, but it’s just as important as cheerful, friendly, and persuasive. CHRISTINA ZWEIG NIEHUES is Zweig Group’s director of marketing. Contact her at christinaz@zweiggroup.com. “Curating a perfect persona, both for yourself and your business, creates a lot of pressure, and efforts can quickly backfire!”

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a perfect persona, both for yourself and your business, creates a lot of pressure, and efforts can quickly backfire! Back in “real life,” a professional I know recently had his first child. Since her birth, he has consistently used his personal social media channel to promote the commercial sponsorship of his daughter in a variety of ways, such as regularly mentioning a children’s clothing line – I’m assuming he has partnered with a sponsor – and requesting votes to make her the next “Gerber baby.” I’m not sure he’s posted a single picture of her without some associated product link. I don’t think I’m alone with “With Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Glassdoor, and many more, people are constantly being rated, thumbs-upped, sad-faced, and critiqued by the public.”

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