Anil Cheriyan, formerly director of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services, will join Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) on Aug. 3 to serve as executive vice president of strategy and technology, The Economic Times reported Monday.

Catriona Fallon, former vice president of finance and chief of staff to the chief financial officer at Cognizant Technology Solutions, has been appointed to serve as CFO of Hitachi Vantara. Hitachi Vantara said Friday Fallon will report directly to CEO Brian Householder and oversee financial reporting, controllership, treasury, internal audit and real …

Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), accepted her fourth consecutive Wash100 Award from Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic on Monday. Caret received her fourth Wash100 Award for her continued leadership in the development of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, winning major defense contracts for the company and accelerating influential aerospace technology. 

Jay Sultan, former vice president of health care innovation and strategy at Cognizant, has joined LexisNexis Risk Solutions' health care business as VP of strategy. The two-decade industry veteran will be responsible for developing the unit's overall strategy, innovation, partnerships and market planning functions, LexisNexis Risk Solutions said Monday.

If agencies and companies implement measures that do not align with new federal guidance defining essential workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they will end up hurting the very professionals and businesses that help protect national security, writes EverWatch CEO John Hillen.

Bob Stevens, vice president of federal systems at San Francisco-based mobile security firm Lookout, has said an April 2017 study released by the Department of Homeland Security indicates that threats posed by federal agencies’ use of smartphones and other mobile devices to government data are present across all areas of …

Tata Consultancy Services, an India-based information technology consulting firm, has resumed negotiations over its plans to acquire IT services provider Perot Systems from Dell, The Economic Times reported Monday. Anirban Sen and Jochelle Mendonca write Dell plans to sell Perot Systems for approximately $5 billion and has secured offers from …

Health Net (NYSE: HNT) — one of 30 companies listed on Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index — has reported third quarter earnings of 96 cents per share to meet the consensus forecast of Wall Street analysts and exceed prior year figures by 24 cents. Third quarter profit 3.22 percent year-over-year to $60.25 million and revenue …

Sanjiv Gossain, formerly a senior vice president at Cognizant Technology Solutions, has joined Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) as a vice president and managing director. The 25-year information technology industry veteran will CSC’s operations in the U.K., Ireland and the Netherlands,  the company announced Monday. He will report to John Maguire, …

The U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command has awarded Arlington based CACI, provider of IT solutions and professional services, a contract worth $70 million to provide them with development support services for engineering systems and integrated logistics. The MSC works to deliver supplies and provides transportation services for all U.S. Military …