Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal sales at network visibility platforms provider Gigamon (NYSE: GIMO), has said government agencies should adopt cybersecurity platforms that work to provide œpervasive visibility into data across all networks in order to prevent data breaches. Reilly wrote that advanced persistent threat actors use a six-...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index dropped Friday but registered a weekly gain as U.S. stocks took a break from their two-day surge after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday. The post-Fed decision rally helped the GCI add 2.57 percent over five days with its S&P 500-listed c...
A business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has been awarded a potential five-year, $430 million contract to help the U.S. Census Bureau build, test and operate a multichannel contact center to support the 2020 Census Questionnaire Assistance program. General Dynamics Information Technology will also provide its Customer ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 22, 2016 ” Capgemini‘s U.S. government solutions subsidiary is set to move its operations in Washington and Reston, Virginia, to a new 15, 301-square-foot consolidated headquarters in Tysons Corner, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Real estate advisory firm Serten Advisors said Tuesday the subsidiary wil...
Jim Chilton, vice president of strategic missiles and defense systems at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has been promoted to president of the aerospace and defense contractor’s network and space systems business in a move that takes effect Oct. 21. Boeing said Thursday the 32-year company veteran will succeed Craig Cooning, who ha...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 22, 2016 ” John Lee, vice president for cloud services at Carahsoft Technology, has outlined the impact of the General Services Administration‘s initiative to accelerate the authorization process for cloud service providers under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, ExecutiveBiz re...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 22, 2016 ” Chris Pehrson, senior director of strategic development at General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business, has said unmanned aerial vehicles should have added functionalities to support mission reassignment, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Pehrson was one of the participants in a discussion of the...
The State Department has given Japan the go-ahead to purchase the Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft and related support from the U.S. government under a potential $1.9 billion foreign military sales agreement. Japan asked to procure four KC-46A aerial refueling planes equipped with Raytheon-made (NYSE: RTN) A...
Mark Benjamin, a 24-year veteran of human resources management firm Automatic Data Processing (Nasdaq: ADP), has been named president and chief operating officer of Georgia-based consumer transaction technology provider NCR (NYSE: NCR). He will report directly to NCR Chairman and CEO Bill Nuti and be responsible for the company’...
Sujey Edward, formerly vice president of Salient CRGT™s Agile Innovation Center and Agile Center of Excellence, has joined Octo Consulting Group as chief technology officer. He will report directly to Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani and be responsible for the Tysons Corner, Virginia-based contractor’s information technology ...
