Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) has won a potential 10-year $600 million contract to build a private cloud infrastructure for the CIA, according to Federal Computer Week. Frank Konkel reports the agency is acquiring the cloud infrastructure for big data in ways itInformation Technology could not under previous cloud contracts. Jeanne Tisinger, the... 

Bill Varner Brian McHugh, a 28-year intelligence community veteran and former FBI and CIA official, has joined ManTech International (NASDAQ: MANT) as vice president of program development and risk management. He will be responsible for developing and implementing national security programs and supporting homeland security programs, ManTech said Wednesday. McHugh... 

Federal information technology and consulting provider Catapult Technology has appointed 17-year CIA and 11-year contracting veteran Bruno Mahlmann senior vice president for national security information technology solutions. Mahlmann will lead a newly-formed division the company formed with the intent of winning business with federal intelligence agencies,... 

Mark Chadason MacAulay-Brown has appointed Mark Chadason senior vice president for the newly-formed national security group, reporting directly to President and CEO Sid Fuchs. The company said Chadason, a three-decade veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and CIA, will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with customers in the U.S. defense,... 

Tim Reardon, Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has promoted 14-year company veteran Tim Reardon to lead the information systems and global solutions-national business area, effective July 2. The company said he will succeed Rick Ambrose, who will take on a newly-created position within the space systems business. Click over to GovCon Executive... 

BAE Systems has tasked Brian Sheridan, vice president and deputy general for the company’s intelligence and security sector, to lead the Reston, Va.-based SpecTal business, according to an announcement today. SpecTal, previously a part of L-1 Intelligence Services Group, provides government customers with security and intelligence consulting. Sheridan... 

TASC Inc. has appointed John T. Brennan, a retired Air Force two-star general, to lead the company’s business unit supporting the Air Force. This unit specializes in delivering systems engineering, integration and acquisition support services to the Air Force. Brennan joins TASC from SAIC, where was responsible for an operation serving the CIA and... 

TASC Inc. has named Bob Pattishall as a vice president in its strategic capabilities and technology group. Pattishall served the CIA for 25 years before joining Veridian Corp. and then Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) aerospace systems sector, where he most recently lead the development and deployment of a major program as vice president and program... 

  Dale Luddeke, TASC, Inc. TASC Inc. has named former CIA senior intelligence officer Bob Silsby as vice president of its business and technology office. Silsby held that position with the National Reconnaissance Office, where he most recently served as chief executive and technical director of NRO’s ground enterprise directorate. In that... 

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has appointed former CIA Director of Security Charles S. Phalen, Jr. as vice president of industrial security for corporate and enterprise shared services, effective immediately. Phalen now leads the company’s security organization and oversees security policies, procedures and processes that protect Northrop employees,...