Zain Ahmed, formerly a senior director of CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the company’s federal civilian and law enforcement practice. CenturyLink said Monday the 15-year telecommunications industry veteran will oversee the delivery of network, cybersecurity, cloud computing and informat...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from the two-day Reagan National Defense Forum that kicked off Friday in California. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) CEO Marillyn Hewson; Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) CEO Thomas Kennedy; Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing™s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security busine...
On Thursday, Nov. 29th, GovCon leaders from the public and private sector gathered for the Potomac Officers Club™s Are We There Yet? Your Journey to the Cloud and the Pit Stops Along the Way Agenda event, featuring a keynote address from Dr. John Zangardi, chief information officer for the Department of Homeland Security. Before his...
Rick Howard, chief security officer at Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), said agencies can avoid complexity by leveraging the same security platform that they already have deployed to protect their perimeter, their mobile devices, and their data centers in the cloud-based services they are moving to. He refers to these environments as data ...
Michael Huerta, formerly administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, has been named a senior consultant for Serco Group‘s aviation business in the U.S. He will provide strategic guidance and play a role in the development of Serco Inc.‘s global aviation strategy in his new position, the company said Friday. The Reston, Va....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 30, 2018 ” Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) has received certification for the inclusion of additional Fortinet Security Fabric offerings in the Defense Department‘s list of products cleared for deployment in DoD networks, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 9. The company said Nov. 8 at least 50 more Security Fabric p...
Several top government contractors and industry experts attended Baird™s 2018 Government Services and Defense Conference. œ2018 has been a transformational year of M&A at scale in the government services and defense market, Jean Stack, managing director for global investment banking at Baird, told GovConWire. Stack added that she ...
Natasha McLean, a 17-year veteran of Serco Inc., has been appointed managing director of the professional and technology services contractor™s Canadian business. McLean will report to David Cummins, a senior vice president at Serco Inc., and oversee business development strategies and all operations across defense, citizen services and transpor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 29, 2018 ” Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has said the company is working with Silicon Valley partners to identify commercial technologies that could potentially be applied for military use, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 2. Aviation Today reported Nov. 1 t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 29, 2018 ” AECOM (NYSE: ACM) has received a potential $23.5M contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development‘s South America regional office in Peru to drive measures that counter harmful infrastructure and extractive activities in the Amazon, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 2. The company said...
