Sentences with phrase «u.s. government awarded»

The U.S. government awarded 22.25 percent of its contracts to small businesses in the 2012 fiscal year, which ended in September, according to a scorecard released by the U.S. Small Business Administration today.

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A spat among airlines over which deserved the contract to fly U.S. government workers on certain routes intensified on Tuesday, with the chief executive of JetBlue Airways calling rivals hypocritical for protesting its award.

The $ 89.9 billion awarded to small - business contractors in 2012 is 22.25 percent of more than $ 400 billion spent by the U.S. government that year.

The announcement is part of the Smart City Challenge, a government - sponsored competition that will award $ 50 million to one U.S. city.

In order to conduct business with the U.S. Government, your company must register at both the System for Award Management and the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) websites.

That includes funding awards to boost entrepreneurship in communities, the Business Smart Toolkit from the U.S. Small Business Administration and the National Association for Government Guaranteed Lenders — which will assist new entrepreneurs in building a credit - ready business — and the expansion of the The Innovation Corps program, which provides entrepreneurship training for scientists and engineers.

The Freedom Award is the highest recognition given by the U.S. government to employers for their support of their employees who serve in the Guard and Reserve.

Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch yesterday notified U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan that New York intends to reenter the competition for Race to the Top funding in the government's second round of awards.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who has tackled corruption in state government, is investigating the awarding of contracts under the Buffalo Billion program, The New York Post reports.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. government announced Tuesday that it will award $ 18.5 billion worth of disaster recovery grants to Puerto Rico to help repair homes, businesses and its crumbling power grid as the U.S. territory struggles to recover from Hurricane Maria.

When Ahna Skop (pictured left) met the president of the United States in early November at a ceremony honoring the winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed on young scientists by the U.S. government — she was the only one the president spoke to.

Large Newspaper — Circulation of 150,000 or more Gold Award: Ryan McNeill, Deborah J. Nelson, Yasmeen Abutaleb and the Reuters team Reuters «The Uncounted» series Sept. 7, Nov. 18, Dec. 15 and Dec. 22, 2016 Fifteen years after the U.S. government declared antibiotic - resistant infections to be a grave threat to public health, a Reuters investigation, «The Uncounted,» found that infection - related deaths are going uncounted because federal and state agencies are doing a poor job of tracking them.

The Humane Society also has evidence, provided to ScienceInsider, that the U.S. National Institutes of Health violated its own moratorium on breeding chimpanzees for biomedical research, awarding New Iberia a contract to provide infant chimps to government investigators.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Looked on favorably by the government the institute began to receive generous donations from organizations such as the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the MacArthur Foundation in the U.S. Bolstered by such support, INBio grew and matured, collecting various awards including the Prince of Asturias Award for Technological and Scientific Research in 1995.

Among her numerous honors and awards, Dr. Akassoglou won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding early - career scientists and engineers.

Ma has authored or co-authored more than 130 peer - reviewed journal publications and has been recognized with the Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Research by the American Physical Society and the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

Announced today by the White House, the PECASE award is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to scientists and engineers who are in the early stage of their research careers.

However, following the awards of work to Boeing for the CST - 100 and to SpaceX for the Dragon V2, Sierra Nevada — which proposed the Dream Chaser lifting body — filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Sept 26, citing «inconsistencies in the source selection process.»

She is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the U.S. government to outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent research careers.

In 2008, she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the U.S. government to scholars in the early stages of their careers.

Given the results of these three studies, one which was overseen by the U.S. Department of Education and two which were recognized with the Department's highest award for rigor, we might expect President Obama to receive a swift response regarding his call for the federal government to search for programs that boost educational outcomes for African American men.

The recognition award is part of a larger U.S. Department of Education (USED) effort to identify and disseminate knowledge about practices that are proven to result in improved student engagement, higher academic achievement and graduation rates, and workforce preparedness, as well as a government wide goal of increasing energy independence and economic security.

In 2016, Lemons received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers, from President Obama.

Mr. Horn received the Secretary's Gold Medal Award for his work on the Aviation Congestion Team, the Secretary's Partnering for Excellence Award as part of the Department's International Aviation and Safety Team, the Cape Ray Mission Team, and the Washington Airports Task Force's Williams Trophy as part of U.S. International Aviation Negotiating Team for exceptional work in expanding access to international aviation, the Government Technology Leadership Award, the Secretary's Bronze Medal for leadership on the U.S. Delegation to the Montreal Convention, and the FAA Administrator's Award for his support of enactment of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act.

Mr. Horn received the Secretary's Gold Medal Award for his work on the Aviation Congestion Team; the Secretary's Partnering for Excellence Award as part of the Department's International Aviation and Safety Team, and as part of the Cape Ray Mission Team (Syria's chemical weapons disposal); the Washington Airports Task Force's Williams Trophy as part of U.S. International Aviation Negotiating Team for exceptional work in expanding access to international aviation; the Government Technology Leadership Award; the Secretary's Bronze Medal for leadership on the U.S. Delegation to the Montreal Convention, and the FAA Administrator's Award for his support of enactment of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act.

Award - winning environmental reporter Kane tells the amazing story of a group of Amazonian Indians, the Huaorani, who confronted oil conglomerates and the Ecuadorian and U.S. governments in a courageous effort to preserve their way of life and the rain forest they call home.

Interestingly, the RIM PlayBook has been awarded the prestigious FIPS 140 - 2 certification by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, which means the tablet is safe for use by U.S. federal government agencies — the only tablet in the world to be so awarded.

McDermott had to spinoff Babcock & Wilcox in 2010, because McDermott was an inverted company — incorporated in Panama — and the U.S. changed a law to ban the awarding of government contracts to inverted companies.

U.S. Government student grants are awarded based on financial need.

Those events are the settlement of VXGN's obligations under its lease of facilities in South San Francisco and the awarding of a procurement contract by the U.S. government to Emergent BioSolutions for which VXGN is eligible to receive certain milestone and royalty payments.

These events relate primarily to settlement of VaxGen's obligations under its lease of facilities in South San Francisco, and to the potential award of a procurement contract to Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE: EBS) by the U.S. Government for which VaxGen is eligible to receive milestone and royalty payments in connection with Emergent BioSolutions» May 2008 acquisition of VaxGen's recombinant protective antigen (rPA) anthrax vaccine product candidate and related technology.

Passenger is responsible for all taxes, fees, baggage fees and surcharges applicable to award travel, including, with respect to government imposed taxes and fees, September 11th Security Fee of $ 5.60 per one - way trip that does not include a government defined stopover, US Customs, Immigration and APHIS User Fees of $ 17.50 for each international arrival in the U.S.; and non-U.S. government ticket taxes, fees and airport charges may add up to $ 275 per ticket as of January 1, 2018.

TUE APR 17 7PM HAMMER SCREENINGS SCREAMERS The documentary Screamers chronicles Grammy Award - winning rock band System of a Down's efforts to persuade both the British and U.S. governments to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Sam Green began his career making traditional feature - length documentaries steeped in the political; his Academy Award - nominated The Weather Underground tells the story of a group of radical young women and men who tried to violently overthrow the U.S. government during the late 1960s and «70s.

In 1994 Thiebaud received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to an artist by the U.S. government.

She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and fellowship in the United States, including the Jacob K. Javits and EPA» STAR» fellowships, and two postdoctoral Fellowships, in the Advanced Study Program at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and in the J.F. Kennedy school of Government, respectively.

Among awards and recognition, he has been a Visiting Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, a Health Policy Investigator at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a Google Science Communication Fellow, and a member of the U.S. National Academies consensus study committee on «The Science of Science Communication: A Research Agenda.»

By Peter Whoriskey The U.S. government last year announced a $ 10 million award, dubbed the «L Prize,» for any manufacturer that could create a «green» but affordable light bulb.

They were given an award from the U.S. Department of Energy in the sum of $ 770, 000 dollars as part of the federal government's program to create inexpensive solar energy storage.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth awarded damages to about 80 plaintiffs in the suit against the Iranian government, Law360 reports.

Last year, he was lead counsel for a team of lawyers who won the largest award ever against the U.S. government in a wrongful imprisonment case — $ 101.7 million.

He has earned several awards including New York State Bar Association 2011 President's Pro Bono Service Award for a project assisting refugees from Iraq, selection by Crain's New York Business in 2009 as one of 40 Under 40 rising stars of the profession awarded for combined achievements in business and law, a 2009 National Law Journal Pro-Bono Award for his Iraq refugee work, and an Attorney General Special Commendation Award for his service in Iraq on behalf of the U.S. government.

ACEDS awards the Certified eDiscovery Specialist (CEDS) credential, which is held by practitioners at Am Law 200 firms, government agencies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Justice Department, and some of the largest corporations in the world.

If you know of Pharmaceutical Fraud that is being perpetrated against the U.S. Government, you may be entitled to a percentage of the financial recovery as a Whistleblower Award.

According to Law 360, «[t] he federal government on Wednesday [December 10, 2014] joined state bar associations from California, Florida, New York, Texas and others urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Fifth Circuit decision that overturned fees associated with Baker Botts LLP's $ 117 million fee award for defending Asarco LLC in the mining company's bankruptcy.»

WASHINGTON — The Washington Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs honored Covington partner and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder with the 2017 Wiley A. Branton Award for his «unremitting commitment to civil rights and leadership on critical equal justice issues inside government and in the private bar.»

Such potential would be indicated by, among other things, the receipt of significant capital investment from U.S. investors with established records of successful investments, or obtaining significant awards or grants from certain Federal, State or local government entities.

The U.S. government has awarded a $ 100,000 grant to a group of researchers looking to apply blockchain to public library systems.

* Career marked by award - winning leadership roles at Michigan Caterpillar, Ford Motor Company, GM dealerships, and U.S. government contractors including QUEST...