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		<title>Antonina &#8220;Nina&#8221; Shtilkind Named to OrangeSlices&#8217; 2027 Engage Fed Health 150 for the Third Consecutive Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reston, VA &#124; September 9, 2026 &#8211;Antonina (Nina) Shtilkind, Vice President of Digital Business Services at Brillient Corporation, has been named to OrangeSlices&#8217; 2027 Engage Fed Health 150, marking her third consecutive year of recognition. The peer-nominated list honors executives across VA, HHS, CMS, Defense Health, and the broader Federal Health community for how they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brillient Attends An Evening for Hope 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reston, VA &#124; May 4, 2026 &#8211; On Saturday, May 2, Brillient was proud to join more than 500 guests at &#8220;An Evening for Hope,&#8221; the annual gala benefiting The Children&#8217;s Inn at NIH. This year&#8217;s event moved to the grand setting of the JW Marriott Washington DC, where senior government leaders and executives from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>250+ Meals and a Brillient Way to Give Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reston, VA &#124; March 26, 2026 &#8211; On March 25, a group of Brillient employees swapped their desks for aprons to volunteer with SevaTruck Foundation, preparing and delivering more than 250 nutritious meals to students at Braddock Elementary School in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The experience was a vivid reminder of what community responsibility [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brillient Awarded Seat on MDA&#8217;s $151B MA/IDIQ SHIELD Contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reston, VA &#124; January 9, 2026 &#8211; Brillient is pleased to announce it was awarded a contract with a ceiling of $151B for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD). This multiple award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract encompasses a broad range of work areas that allows for the rapid delivery of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brillient Celebrates Teamwork and Cheer at Holiday Luncheon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reston, VA &#124; December 19, 2025 &#8211; December 17, Brillient employees gathered at Reston Headquarters for an afternoon of food, games, and festivities at the annual Holiday Luncheon. Attendees were treated to a catered lunch featuring Mediterranean-inspired cuisine from Cava. Everyone built their own bowl from a selection of fresh grilled proteins, greens and grains, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brillient Executive Evaluates AI Literacy Students&#8217; Final Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reston, VA &#124; December 11, 2025 &#8211; Brillient Vice President of Customer Success, Paul Weiss, participated as an industry expert in a final exam for George Mason University AI Students who took UNIV 182 – AI4All: Understanding &#38; Building Artificial Intelligence (GMU’s first campus-wide AI literacy course) this semester. Amarda Shehu, VP and Chief AI [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>2025 Happy Holidays from Brillient Corporation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Brillient Employees Unite for Community Food Drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reston, VA &#124; November 21, 2025 &#8211; This Thanksgiving season, Brillient hosted a food drive to help those in need within our community. From November 3 through November 21, Brillient employees brought nonperishable food donations to our Reston, Virginia Headquarters. We delivered seven boxes full of donations (138 pounds of food) to Cornerstones “FREE from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Brillient Celebrates at Elev8 and Engage GovCon: Never Settle Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reston, VA &#124; November 20, 2025 &#8211; November 19, Jessica Fonoroff and Jenni Ferguson represented Brillient Corporation at the third annual Elev8 GovCon and Engage FedGov social event, held this year at the Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Halethorpe, Maryland. The Orange Slices AI event brought together an incredible gathering of innovators, leaders, and partners [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Richard Jacik Nominated for AFFIRM Leadership Emerging Tech Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reston, VA &#124; October 1, 2025 &#8211; Richard Jacik, Brillient Chief Digital Officer &#38; Senior Vice President, has been nominated for the Emerging Tech award category at the AFFIRM Leadership Awards. &#8220;AFFIRM is an organization focused on all the right things — partnership, innovation, and education,” said Jacik. “I am honored to be recognized, among [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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