Several leaders from the government and GovCon community will participate in a Sept. 21 virtual event hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire) to discuss the role of threat intelligence in rooting out national security issues. GCW’s Cybersecurity in National Security Summit will feature two separate...
Cyber experts Stacy Dawn, Christine Horwege and Victor Foulk have joined CGI Federal’s growing cyber practice, the company announced Tuesday. “We look forward to expanding our cyber knowledge and depth of expertise as the growing demand for cybersecurity in the federal space increases,” said Jason Porter, vice president of CGI Federal’s emer...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the 2021 GAUGE Report and GovCon Expert, has published her latest article on Thursday as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program. Koster provides insight into the Gauge Report’s findings that explore the best practices and benchmarks of the government contr...
Thomas Holzthum, a member of the board of directors at PCX Aerosystems, has been named CEO of the Newington, Connecticut-based aircraft components supplier. He succeeds Jeff Frisby, who has led PCX since April 2017 and will transition to a new role as executive chairman, the company said Wednesday. Holzthum has served as the company’s chief...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is integrating its U.S. federal team into the Azure engineering organization led by Azure Executive Vice President Jason Zander as part of a reorganization to improve collaboration and better integrate platforms built for federal users into its cloud portfolio, ZDNET reported Wednesday. Rick Wagner, a 2021 Wash100 Award winn...
The Office of Management and Budget has issued a draft federal strategy to help U.S. government agencies implement zero trust principles in their enterprise security architecture in accordance with President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order. OMB said Tuesday the draft Federal Zero Trust Strategy establishes baseline technical and policy r...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its IT Modernization and Transformation Forum on Wednesday featuring Ann Dunkin, chief information officer of the Department of Energy (DOE), as the keynote speaker to discuss her goals, strategies and priorities for the DOE. “We want to advance, as always, the use of technology. One of the things we do in...
Joe Mazur, a three-decade contracting veteran, has joined CACI International (NYSE: CACI) as vice president of business development responsible for driving contracting opportunities for the company in the defense, intelligence, security and federal and civilian markets, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Wednesday. The former executive director and account m...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its IT Modernization and Transformation Forum on Wednesday to bring together a handful of the most significant members of the federal landscape as well as those who want to learn more about the current set of challenges surrounding our cybersecurity systems, data modernization goals and IT transformation strategies. As the ...
Chris Soong, formerly the chief information officer of Alion Science and Technology, has been appointed to the same position at Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) technical solutions division. HII added Soong to its executive team upon completion of the company’s $1.65 billion cash acquisition of Alion, the Virginia-based militar...
