The National Institute of Standards and Technology has formed a new advisory committee to review the agency’s cryptographic guidance, Fedscoop reported Wednesday. Billy Mitchell writes the committee includes Vint Cerf of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Steve Lipner of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Ellen Richey of Visa (NASDAQ: V) and Ron Rivest of the Massachusetts …

Langley Proctor, formerly director of business development and sales at Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), has joined Savage IO as sales director for the data center technology provider. The two-decade industry veteran aims to help the company grow its converged enterprise storage portfolio and partnerships with software application vendors, Savage IO …

Andrew Sullivan and Marty Fischer have joined Intelligent Decisions in director roles as the company aims to bring new technologies to the government market. Sullivan will lead sales to the Defense Department and Fischer will serve as director of federal enterprise solutions, ID said Tuesday. Rhett Butler, vice president of sales, said Sullivan …

Larry Silver, formerly director of U.S. government sales at BlackBerry, has joined DMI as vice president of business development for federal mobility. Silver will work to oversee DMI’s mobile enterprise services for public sector clients, develop integration strategies and advise government partners on managing mobility infrastructures, the company said Thursday. Jay …

Ben Fathi, formerly senior vice president for research and development at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has been appointed to the role of chief technology officer. Fathi will report directly to CEO Pat Gelsinger and be responsible for the company’s product development and programs, academic partnerships and R&D community, VMware said Wednesday. Gelsinger …

Rakesh Narasimhan has been appointed as the group vice president and general manager of Citrix‘s desktop virtualization business. The 25-year industry veteran Narasimhan will be responsible for helping the business strategize its approach and oversee products such as Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp, the company announced Monday. Narasimhan joins Citrix from …

Amit Mital, formerly corporate vice president for Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) startup business group, has joined Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) as chief technology officer. Mital will report directly to CEO Steve Bennett with responsibility in Symantec’s technology strategy focusing on research and product development, Symantec said Wednesday. He will succeed Steve …

DLT Solutions has won a blanket purchase agreement contract to help the Defense Department and the U.S. Army implement Google‘s (NASDAQ: GOOG) cloud-based communication and collaboration applications under a program intended to expand mobile access in both organizations. This BPA with the Army Contracting Command comprises of a base year and …

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) will install Polycom technology into a video collaboration environment intended to help NATO members centralize communications. The Polycom RealPresence platform will be installed in NATO locations across Europe and North America and will be built to hold resources for operations such as classified communications and resource …

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will lead a team of six companies to develop a network infrastructure for NATO’s future headquarters complex in Brussels, Belgium under a potential $100 million contract. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO),  Dell (NASDAQ: DELL),  Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT),  Prodata Systems and SELEX Elsag will work with Lockheed to build the network for facilitating communication among NATO …