Shawn Rodriguez, former vice president of state and local government and education at ForeScout Technologies (Nasdaq: FSCT), has been appointed to the same position at World Wide Technology. He brings more than two decades of management experience in the SLED market to his new position, WWT said Wednesday.

World Wide Technology‘s annual information and education technology event Geek Day will be in Washington for the first time. Geek Day will take place from April 10 to 11 at the Washington Convention Center. The event will feature hands on demonstrations and information sessions from wireless, security, data center, and virtualization …

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector business at Amazon Web Services, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for driving cloud innovation, expanding AWS' influence and advocating for cloud computing education within Virginia schools.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Al Whitmore, president of the intelligence and security sector at BAE Systems' U.S. subsidiary, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for pushing for innovation and leading organizational efforts to support customers' national security missions.

Maximus announced on Tuesday that the company has joined a selected group of vendors on a statewide contract with Minnesota’s Department of Human Resources (DHS) to help homeless citizens in the state with long-term disabilities apply for Social Security disability benefits.

Bruce Greenstein, chief technology officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, will leave HHS to serve as chief innovation and technology officer at Lafayette, La.-based in-home health care services provider LHC Group (Nasdaq: LHCG) starting June. Greenstein “will lead our enhanced emphasis on innovation and technology to improve the …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 28, 2017 — CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) has received recognition as one of the top 100 defense firms in the world in a list released by Defense News based on defense-related annual revenue, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The company said Tuesday it climbed in the annual ranking from No. …

Over 200,000 devices in at least 150 countries had been infected with WannaCry by Sunday, a piece of ransomware that holds your computer hostage until you pay hackers $300 in bitcoin. WannaCry is the largest cyberextortion scheme ever, reports CNet, and experts are warning that many governments are susceptible due to outdated technology. …

Mark Anderson, formerly executive vice president of worldwide field operations at Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), has been promoted to president at the Santa Clara, California-based firewall provider. Palo Alto Networks said Monday he will report directly to Chairman and CEO Mark McLaughlin and be responsible for helping drive the company’s sales, go-to-market, customer support and business development strategies. …

The Gas Technology Institute has bought the energy assets of Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) with the intent to accelerate the development of energy efficiency products for government and commercial sectors. Eileen Drake, Aerojet Rocketdyne president and CEO, said Monday the company decided to divest its energy business to focus on the …