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October 20, 2009
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Heavy Duty
Agency Acquisitions
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| FedFocus 2010 is coming November 5. Top industry and gov't officials will explain how INPUT members secure more than $200 billion in federal spending each year. This year includes a focus on Health IT and Cybersecurity. More info. |
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| It’s not like JetBlue flies to Kabul, so when senior staff from the Export-Import Bank had a meeting in Afghanistan, Chief Acquisition Officer Mark Pitra had to rent a military plane to get everyone there: “We do the mundane purchasing like everyone else but also have some real unique challenges. |
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How many other Contracting Officers get to contract for repossessing large commercial aircraft like Boeing 747s? Mark is also supporting the agency on “Exports Live,” an eight-city tour informing small businesses about the bottom line benefits of exporting goods to other countries. They’ve stopped in NYC and Boston and are headed to Miami and Houston next.
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Mark was born in East LA and grew up on a cattle ranch in Oregon, before enlisting in the Navy—“forced into procurement,” he jokes. After doing procurement for the Army at Fort Lewis, Wash. and Space and Missile Defense Command in Colorado Springs, he came to Ex-Im Bank In January '99. Outside of work, Mark likes to ride motorcycles with his wife and fish (he caught some four-foot Rock Fish monster in the Chesapeake).
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| Great Cause |
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This weekend, we joined more than 600 local luminaries, including a bunch of techies, at the Red Cross Fire and Ice Ball at the Mellon Auditorium. Pictured here: (Back) Tiffany Circle’s Neena Shenoy, Chairman of the Board Suresh Shenoy, Red Cross Prez Linda Mathes, Sudhaker Kesavan, IBM VP Chris Carlson, Gala Co-Chair Teresa Carlson, speaker CBS’s Kimberly Dozier. Front: Beth Chiarelli, General Peter Chiarelli, Tiffany Circle’s Dale Shaeffer, and Gala Co-Chair Jim Sheaffer. Big congrats to Teresa and Jim for working so hard and raising so much money and awareness. (Find more great pics in today's issue of the Scene.)
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| The Other World Cup |
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The FIFA World Cup is just around the corner, but our friends at GlobalNet just completed the GIFA World Cup (that would be GlobalNet Internationale de Foosball). The tournament featured more than half of the 70-person company’s staff and it appears company rank doesn’t matter. Just ask CEO Ori Reiss, above at the table, who was bounced in the first round.
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Here the staff reacts as defending champion Ravi Gadiraju and teammate David Logsdon, heavily favored to win (Vegas had them going off at 2-1), are eliminated in the semi-finals.
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And your champs: DBA Vijay Pasupuleti and Help Desk Technician Bret Anderson (with juggling skills, no less) show off their trophies.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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October 27 - Bisnow Breakfast & Schmooze - Hot Topics in Federal IT. Gary Winkler, Army PEO for Enterprise Information Systems, and Stan Soloway, CEO of the Professional Services Council. Fairview Park Marriott. Info.
October 28 - Bisnow Breakfast & Schmooze - "Is K Street the New Wall Street?" Federal Stimulus Tsar Earl Devaney; former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; Carlyle co-founder and tech guru Ed Mathias; Trump Organization EVP Eric Trump; economist, former NAM president Jerry Jasinowski; and Lazard defense and aerospace banker William Farmer. Reagan Building. Info.
October 29 - Take Advantage of Cloud Computing Webinar - Digital Government Institute - "Can Government and Education Cloud Computing Deliver Value?" 2pm. Info
November 06 - The Women's Center - 35th Anniversary Gala - Join many of the federal IT community's most powerful members. 6:30pm. Gannett Corporate HQ in McLean. Info
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