Marion Ticknor, a government services industry veteran with more than two decades of human resources experience, has been appointed chief people officer of Bethesda, Maryland-based digital technology services provider DMI. Her appointment takes effect Jan. 3 and she will be responsible for ensuring DMI’s organizational culture can adapt to evo...
The government contracting industry offers one of the best growth opportunities, whether you run a small business or a large enterprise. Each year, the federal government mobilizes its GovCon community to assist it in bolstering the U.S.’ different key sectors. Over $600 billion worth of federal government contracts were awarded to support the...
Margaret Amori, Inception lead for public sector at NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), said the company works to help the federal government adopt artificial intelligence in five areas and one of those is through graphic processing units and other platforms that NVIDIA offers for AI development and deployment. Amori wrote that one of those platforms is the ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 13, 2021 — Stephen Kovac, chief compliance officer and head of global government affairs at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), discussed during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee roundtable how government agencies were able to move to cloud amid the COVID-19 pandemic with the help from the Federal Risk and Aut...
Bill Becker, vice president of product management at Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, said agencies seeking to protect data should recognize the importance of user authentication. Becker wrote that agencies should consider raising the required authentication level as users seek to gain access to higher-level data and applications. “The key is to...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has urged Congress to fully fund the government for fiscal year 2022 because he believes a long-term continuing resolution will have a significant impact on key programs at the Department of Defense. Austin, a 2021 Wash100 awardee, made the statement Monday after President Biden approved stopgap measure to maintain age...
Jay Jones, a retired U.S. Army colonel who supported the service’s Information Systems Software Center, has joined HighPoint as chief growth officer, responsible for spearheading efforts to expand the presence of the company’s digital services in the federal market. Jones’ military career includes work for the Office of the Directorate...
Nick Warner, chief operating officer at SentinelOne (NYSE: S), said federal agencies should look at the potential of artificial intelligence, machine learning and other autonomous capabilities in protecting critical assets and sensitive data of citizens from cyberthreats and accelerating the detection of cyber vulnerabilities. “These automations a...
Managed Care Advisors President & CEO Lisa Firestone was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Monday. She talked about MCA’s future following its acquisition by Sedgwick and becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary as well as emerging technology’s continued impact on the company workforce and growt...
Christopher Radich, regional vice president of public sector digital strategy at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), said government agencies seeking to reduce their dependence on custom code and improve customer service should develop and implement a multicloud strategy that includes a combination of software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and...
