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 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will offer Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) cloud security suite on the Azure Government marketplace in an effort to provide public customers with cloud workload protection and security services, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Booz Allens’ Virtual Cloud Defense suite will he...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 8, 2016 ” CSRA will advise the Customs and Border Protection on equipment options and deployment methods to help prevent illegal trade and trade activities under a three-year, $45 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. CSRA said Monday it will work with the agency’s systems en...
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. ...
Private equity firms Medina Capital and BC Partners have agreed to buy Addison, Texas-based machine learning and analytics firm Brainspace for an undisclosed sum in an effort to establish a global cybersecurity joint venture. BC Partners and Medina Capital expect to complete the transaction in the first quarter of 2017, subject to closing condi...
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...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index gave back most of its morning gains Friday to close in narrow range on mixed large-cap stock performances and register its sixth straight weekly decline. Friday afternoon trading activity saw the GCI reset itself with the larger U.S. financial market as investors watched for new election-related developments and...
