John Ustica’s career with Siemens spans over two decades — a tenure whose length he sees as a strategic benefit in the government contracting landscape today. His previous posts at the technology and manufacturing company cover a wide range of roles from financial leadership to manufacturing plant management as he has moved up the ranks. ...
Todd Helfrich, vice president of federal sales at SentinelOne (NYSE: S), said government agencies should advance cyber resiliency, adopt industry best practices and reduce the identity attack surface to protect endpoints and networks from cyber adversaries. Helfrich wrote that cyber resiliency has been highlighted by the release of guidance by the N...
The U.S. government has arrived at a seemingly widespread acceptance of the importance of maintaining and evolving its cybersecurity protections, particularly within the Intelligence Community. Without these measures, classified information could be at risk from both state-based and independent bad actors from across the globe looking to exploit vul...
Sid Agarwal, an REI Systems veteran, was elevated to the position of vice president of health systems at the Sterling, Virginia-headquartered information technology company, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday. The executive has oversight of the REI business arm focused on delivering services to health-related agencies including the U.S. Agency for Interna...
Client Solution Architects, a digital transformation and IT services consulting firm, is positioned at a critical point in the GovCon market. After successfully graduating from the Small Business Administration program, CSA has transitioned from a small-sized business to a mid-tier organization that competes with some of GovCon’s big players. GovC...
Global supply chain issues have significantly impacted the government contracting ecosystem in recent years, calling attention to the need for speed in federal acquisition, procurement and manufacturing processes. Kicking off GovCon Wire’s 3rd Annual Defense Digital Acquisition and Innovation Forum, Lt. Gen. David Bassett illustrated the...
Over the last couple of years, workforce shifts due in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic have hastened the transition from hardware and software-based procurement processes to cloud-stored models. Since many government workers started to work from home in (relatively) recent times, agencies began to look toward doing business through cloud-based, ...
Across the globe, organizational leaders are facing a “deluge of data.” In the U.S. intelligence community, in particular, the ability to collect, analyze, understand and leverage this massive influx of data is the key to achieving information dominance and staying ahead of our close competitors — and our adversaries. La’Naia Jones, the Cent...
Sean Frazier, federal chief security officer at Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), said government agencies should consider identity as critical infrastructure and modernize their identity and access management to provide better user experiences. “Agencies can assess the state of their identity infrastructure by continually asking whether they are delivering th...
Rich Wilkinson, senior director of industry marketing at Unanet, has published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program exploring the results from the 2022 GAUGE Report and how they’re directly impacting the state of how government contractors are driving their businesses in comparison to their comp...
