Tag Archives: agile

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 9, 2018 — Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) intelligence, information and services business, has said a budget and acquisition framework focused on the use of commercial software development methods is needed to accelerate the delivery of defense capabilities, …

Weekly Roundup July 16 – July 20, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes Executive Mosaic’s Weekly GovCon Round-Up: L3 Technologies’ M&A Activity & Top 10 Stories Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO       L3 Technologies Enjoys Strong M&A Activity in July This week, I’d like to highlight L3 Technologies which has engaged in …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 30, 2018 — David Egts, chief technologist for Red Hat’s (NYSE: RHT) North American public sector business, has said containers work well when combined with agile development and DevOps processes and could help information technology departments enhance efficiency, ExecutiveBiz reported May 23. Egts said agencies, by …

Kevin Davis, vice president for public sector at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), has said government agencies should implement an adaptive response strategy to immediately address evolving cyber threats, automate their security processes and equip multi-layered security platforms with a defensive strategy. Davis wrote that the key to the implementation of such a strategy is data …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 13, 2018 — PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ (NYSE: UIS) federal business, has said there is an increased interest in the as-a-service business model as well as a “results-oriented statement of objective approach” for government procurement, ExecutiveBiz reported. He told Federal News Radio in an interview that …

Aileen Black, executive director, industry lead and group leader for the U.S. government at Google’s cloud business, has said government agencies should consider three factors when migrating to the cloud and one of those is to understand the cloud’s capability to address the gap between the mission or user and …

Cameron Chehreh, chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said government agencies seeking to gain insights from collected data to facilitate the decision-making process and build up citizen services should first focus on the mission outcome. Chehreh wrote that agencies should frequently reconsider their mission statements amid …

Tom Ruff, vice president of public sector at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), has said government agencies should establish a comprehensive “defense-in-depth strategy” to protect networks from distributed denial-of-service attacks, cross-site scripting and other cyber threats. Ruff wrote such a strategy seeks …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 3, 2017 — John Borghard, senior vice president for public sector sales at CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA), has said the company’s projects with government in 2017 will focus on the areas of cybersecurity, agile and DevOps. He told ExecutiveBiz in an interview published Tuesday that CA will work to leverage …

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has concluded its acquisition of Aquilent, also known as eGov Holdings, as part of efforts to grow digital service offerings for the federal sector. Both companies first announced the $250 million deal in November and Booz Allen said Tuesday it estimates that Laurel, Maryland-based Aquilent will contribute nearly $20 million to fiscal …