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November 19, 2009
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Helping the Mid-Size
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| We've just announced our next Fed IT Breakfast & Schmooze: "Outlook on Energy." Tues, Dec 15, at the Sheraton Premiere. Featuring DoE CFO Steve Isakowitz, a former exec at Lockheed and Booz Allen, now guiding the energy purse. Sign up now! |
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| There might be no tougher road than as a mid-sized contractor (too big for set asides, not big enough to compete with the gorillas), but the upcoming Air Force NETCENTS II IDIQ could spell relief. |
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That's the word yesterday from AF BG Wendy Masiello at AFCEA Bethesda’s breakfast; she says if companies perform well as a set aside, and meet requirements for the full and open competition, they could get a two year rollover. “We want to encourage companies to grow, instead of slowing down to remain a set aside.” With Wendy is GSA’s deputy director for GWACs, Jim Ghiloni.
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The other half of the panel: FAA CAO James Washington, NASA deputy SEWP PM Darlene Coen, and NITAAC deputy director Robert Coen. Robert says NIH’s last NITAAC GWAC has been a great small business helper: 86 of its past 122 contracts went to set-asides, and 39 of those firms have graduated out of the program. Oh, and if you sensed the love between Darlene and Robert (our picture really shows it) you’re not making it up: They’re married.
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NAMING AFTER DR. NGUYEN
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Laura Sikes Photography
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Last week George Mason honored Pragmatics CEO Long Nguyen and wife Kimmy by naming the school’s engineering building after him, following a $5 million donation to the school. That’s Dr. Nguyen and Kimmy, left, with GMU Volgenau School of IT and Engineering Dean Lloyd Griffiths, former BDM CEO Earle Williams, and GMU president Alan Merten.
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SWEETS AND TWEETS
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Twitter and cupcakes? You had us at hello. Earlier this week, we swung by Baked & Wired for Sweets & Tweets, for a talk on Gov 2.0. Here's author Debbie Weil with social networking guru Mark Drapeau and Neighborhood America CIO Jim Haughwout. Mark is perhaps the foremost proponent of Web 2.0 for government, saying that it brings people closer than simple collaboration. For more check out the event’s Twitter feed.
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| HELPING THE TURTLE |
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Last spring GlobalNet Services CEO Ori Reiss, front and center, was at UMD when he picked up the student paper and saw a story about students unhappy with the school’s website search feature; so, he offered the company’s Google Search Appliance (it lets students search the school’s site in the traditional Google view) to the school pro bono. He was on campus a few days ago helping students and faculty learn how to use it. (Since Google searches haven't gotten inexplicably harder since the last one we've tried, we think he might have shown up in person for frisbee on the quad, too.)
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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December 07 - Bisnow Breakfast & Schmooze - "2010" - With Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein, forecaster Steve Fuller, and others. Reagan Building. Info
December 15 - Mountaintop Marketing Peak Series CIO Breakfast - Charles Wisecarver, Deputy CIO, Department of State. Early Bird Rate: $88. Info
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