Tag Archives: Booz Allen Hamilton

February 13 Weekly Defense Industry Roundup

Feb
13 Posted by Fred Wellman

Exclusive: Pentagon Budget Eyes $178.8 Billion for R&D, Procurement

Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters. Copies of the 2013 defense budget started getting to the press over the weekend and the early reports have a 7.5% drop in the procurement budget and an overall 12.2% drop from last year’s budget with the drop in war funding. Generally aircraft and ship programs fared well while cuts in the medium family of vehicles for the Army went down substantially, and the Humvee upgrade program was killed in favor of the JLTV.

San Antonio Firm Barred from Fed Contracts

Sig Christenson and Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express. The Booz Allen Hamilton office in San Antonio, Texas has…

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January 23 Weekly Defense Industry Roundup

Jan
23 Posted by Fred Wellman

Marines, Lockheed Handed Big Victory as Panetta Ends F-35 Probation

John Bennett, U.S. News and World Report DOTMIL. Secretary Panetta took a trip out to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland to meet the folks working on testing the F-35 Lightning series of aircraft and announced he plans to lift the “probation” on the F-35B set by his predecessor. Sighting great progress in the last year bringing the Vertical Takeoff version of the aircraft in line with its sister models, Panetta gave a major boost to the embattled program and the Marine Corps’ hopes for a replacement for its aging jet fleet. 

Pentagon Said to Propose Ending $6.8 Billion Missile,…

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December 19 Weekly Defense Industry Roundup

Dec
19 Posted by Fred Wellman

McChrystal to Chair Board of New Siemens Federal Business

Marjorie Censer, Capital Business, Washington Post. Former Afghanistan commander retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal has been tapped as chairman of the board of directors for the new Siemens federal business entity, Siemens Government Technology. This is another move in the German company’s move into the U.S. market with a move of its U.S. operations to Washington D.C. McChrystal has had a very lucrative post-retirement career unaffected by the controversy surrounding his firing after negative comments from his staff about the administration. He now runs his own leadership consulting firm, is one of three senior advisers to the administration’s ‘Joining Forces’ campaign, and serves…

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Social Media Is Not A Silver Bullet

May
24 Posted by Kathleen Smith
Should we do social recruiting in the cleared community

The presentation above, which was shared at meeting our last week with key members of Booz Allen & Hamilton, inspired the following blog post:
Anywhere you look these days, your inbox, newsletters websites companies are touting “increase your ____________” by using social media tools. This can be sales, contacts, connections, candidates or job opportunities.  I find it interesting that every time a new type of technology comes to the forefront it becomes the next big thing that

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Look who’s hiring: General Dynamics, SAIC, CACI and Raytheon

Dec
21 Posted by Kathleen Smith

The reCareered blog’s weekly research report: Who’s Hiring – Top employers week of 12-21-09, showcases various defense contrators such as General Dynamics, SAIC, CACI, Raytheon and others as companies who continue heavy hiring activity.

So what positions are these companies hiring for, you ask? Why not check out our online job board at www.ClearedJobs.Net for some of the latest positions available for security cleared professionals.

Additionally, our upcoming Cleared Job Fair — a great place to get in front of these and many other employers — is coming up fast on January 21, 2010. Have you registered to attend yet?? :)

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