TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 8, 2016 ” Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence business segment, has said that the cyber workforce is as important as new technology in protecting the country from potential cyber threats and in event of a cyberwar, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. œAs cyber becomes even more tight...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 8, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has stated that the adoption of Ka-band satellite communications services could help address the communication requirements of unified combatant commanders and other government officials, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The company’s Global Xpress c...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 8, 2016 ” Davis Johnson, U.S. public sector vice president at Riverbed Technology, has stated that software-defined wide-area networking could support the federal government’s digital transformation efforts in spite of the challenges posed by legacy information platforms, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The SD-WAN wi...
Charles Mathis, executive vice president and chief financial officer of technology products distributor ScanSource, will join Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) to serve in the same dual roles starting Nov. 14. SAIC said Monday Mathis will succeed interim CFO Maria Bishop, who will return to her full-time post a...
CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) has named Kieran McGrath, previously interim chief financial officer, to executive vice president and CFO in a move that takes effect immediately. McGrath will report directly to CEO Mike Gregoire and manage the company’s global corporate and business unit financial functions, encompassing controller role, treasury...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index recorded its best one-day gain in seven weeks Monday with a 2-percent gain that mirrored across-the-board rallies by U.S. stocks as investors welcomed the FBI‘s weekend letter to reiterate the agency’s stance that Hillary Clinton’s email usage was not a crime. The U.S. ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 7, 2016 ” The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued a Security Technical Implementation Guide for VMware‘s (NYSE: VMW) AirWatch 9.X enterprise mobility management platform, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The STIG aims to define AirWatch 9.X’s information technology cy...
AECOM (NYSE: ACM) and Teresa Carlson of Amazon Web Services have received the œContractor and Executive of the Year honors at the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards in recognition of companies and leaders of firms with more than $300 million in annual revenue. AECOM and Carlson, vice president of the global public sector at AWS...
Bill Sullivan, vice president for public sector at Cloudera, has said government agencies should implement an open-source technology platform to process and analyze large data sets in order to facilitate operations and delivery of services to citizens. Sullivan wrote that agencies can implement security measures when it comes to the adopt...
Nick Noviello, formerly chief financial officer at Blue Coat, has been appointed executive vice president and CFO at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC). Noviello will succeed the departing CFO Thomas Seifert on Dec. 1 and will continue to report to CEO Greg Clark, Symantec said Thursday. Seifert, who has been CFO since March 2014 at Symantec, will...
