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Excerpt: For the second year in a row, DynCorp International has earned a 2013 Champions of Veteran Enterprise Award from the National Veteran Small Business Coalition (NVSBC). Federal agencies and prime contractors that meet or exceed the three percent goal of providing opportunities to veteran-owned (VOSB) and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) are being recognized for this honor. DynCorp International far exceeded stated targets, with 21.1 percent VOSB and 6.1 percent SDVOSB suppliers. Additionally, organizations that have gone above and beyond to make their acquisition process veteran-friendly or took significant actions to increase contracting or subcontracting opportunities will also be recognized. “Veteran-owned and…

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Excerpt: CareerBliss has recognized DynCorp International on their list of top companies where employees love their coworkers, ranked 11. Companies named to the list were chosen by the “BlissScore for Coworkers” compiled through user reviews of employer companies. BlissScore for Coworkers reflects how employees of a particular company ranked their level of satisfaction with their coworkers. To be considered, each company had to have had at least 25 reviews submitted to CareerBliss in 2012. Overall BlissScore incorporates several other factors such as compensation, growth opportunity and culture to measure overall employee happiness at a company. In 2012, DI was ranked seven in CareerBliss’s Top…

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Excerpt: DynCorp International is a four-star sponsor at Marketview 2013, The Professional Services Council’s (PSC) annual spring conference, being held April 7-9, in Tampa, Fla. PSC is the national trade association of the government professional and technical services industry. The Marketview 2013 conference focuses on the broad technical services market, including trends and business opportunities in logistics, installations and range support. Featured speakers include top Department of Defense, military department and civilian agency officials. Sponsorships directly benefit PSC’s programs that help “preserve, improve and expand the federal market.” Marketview 2013 Program The Marketview 2013 program aims to focus on legislative and regulatory challenges that impact…

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Excerpt: Casals & Associates, a DynCorp International company, works as an implementing partner in USAID’s Transparency and Governance Project in El Salvador. On March 12, 2013, the Casals El Salvador team supported the launch of the Salvadoran Industrial Association (ASI)’s Ethical Standards guide, a milestone event in the promotion of integrity standards. Casals team members, USAID personnel and State Department officials attended the event, highlighted by ASI’s 23 industrial sectors officially endorsing the ethical standards, committing their sectors’ compliance with the guide. Hiram Morales, Casals’ anti-corruption specialist, delivered the event’s keynote address and discussed the importance of establishing ethical standards to the audience,…

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Excerpt: DynCorp International (DI) hired nearly 4,100 veterans last year, more than 50 percent of all new hires for 2012. DI is committed to veterans, repeatedly being recognized as an organization that values the experience and dedication veterans bring to its business as employees, business partners and suppliers. “The experience veterans bring to DynCorp International is highly valued,” said Bob Lehman, senior vice president of Human Resources at DynCorp International. “Not only do they bring unique strengths to our business because they know and understand our customers, but they also share the core values DI embraces on and off the job.” Veterans play…

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Excerpt: DynCorp International hosted its first-ever Executive Supplier Summit November 15-16, 2012. More than 45 representatives from DI supplier companies attended the event, themed, “Elevating Performance to New Heights.” The event agenda focused on ensuring comprehensive understanding of DI program objectives, goals and keys to working successfully with DI’s Supply Chain Center of Excellence (COE). Attendees also participated in breakout sessions where they discussed specific opportunities with DI programs and produced actionable results and set the stage for future engagements to enable improved performance execution and increased customer satisfaction. “We hope this event made significant steps towards framing performance expectations and strengthening DI supplier…

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Excerpt: Casals & Associates, a DynCorp International company, as an implementing partner in the Foti Timor-Leste Project, continues to sharpen skills of non-state actors in Timor-Leste in their fight against corruption. The Foti Timor-Leste Project is a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Anticorruption Project, funded and administered by USAID in partnership with the Government of Timor-Leste. The non-state actors’ component of the program, among other activities, includes training Timorese journalists to strengthen their investigative reporting skills through a specialized training course. The overall objective of the seven-month course is to mainstream corruption-related news coverage to encourage mass participation in Timor-Leste’s anticorruption program…

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Excerpt: The Salvadoran undersecretary of transparency and anticorruption collaborated with the presidential innovation technology unit in El Salvador to launch the first Virtual Government Training Program (VGTP) on August 17, 2012. The event, held at the training facilities located at the Salvadoran presidential building, was held to kick off a country-wide initiative to provide training for more than 250,000 Salvadoran government officials. The initiative is sponsored by USAID’s Democracy Strengthening Program (DSP) and implemented by DynCorp International in El Salvador. DI team members provided the necessary technical assistance to develop the training program software and the large-capacity host server. Virtual Government Training Program VGTP…

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Excerpt: DynCorp International was ranked seven in CareerBliss’s Top 10 Bliss Leap Award Winners list. Fifty companies in total were awarded “for making the greatest strides to create happier work environments.” CareerBliss determines award winners based on company reviews placed on CareerBliss.com by employees over the course of the past year. Those “with the most significant growth in overall workplace happiness” are chosen. According to CareerBliss, all companies within the top 10 had an increase in employee happiness by more than 12 percent from the previous year. DI had an average “Bliss Rating” of 4.258 on a scale from 1-5, with a…