What a year. From market meltdowns to a change in administration, 2008 will go down as a year of unprecedented change. Local businesses and leaders were no strangers to change, either, and ExecutiveBiz was there every step of the way, chronicling the key players in commercial and government markets. In case you missed any of [...]
Computer Sciences Corporation has acquired Log.Sec, a privately owned IT and logistics engineering company based in Manassas, Va that provides full test support services to government clients. The acquisition comes as part of the company’s strategic ‘Project Accelerate’ growth strategy in the public sector to invest in selected higher growth areas. CSC has been successfully [...]
The fourth annual CES Government Conference is set to take place January 8-10, 2009 at the Ritz-Carlton in Lake Las Vegas, Nevada. The focus of this year’s premiere government technology showcase is on cybersecurity and the event will be held in conjunction with International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow. Among the impressive list [...]
Carleton Jones, recently profiled in Top 20 People to Watch, became President of INDUS Corp mid-November. He will continue to serve as Vice Chairman, a position he has held since May of this year. He was formerly the CEO of Multimax, bought last year by Harris Corp for $400 million, as well as former President [...]
Ask anyone in the VAR market to name their top business concerns, and you’ll probably hear things like: staying up to date with technology, winning new business, recruiting and retention, and keeping an eye out for managed services opportunities. For Ed Jones, senior vice president of DLT Solutions, a value-added reseller of IT products and [...]
We hear a lot about Web 2.0 technology and applications on the consumer side — think MySpace, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Less so on the government side. But that’s slowly changing. Recently, TIME Magazine listed A-Space among the top 50 best inventions of 2008. Launched in September by the Federal Government, A-Space is a “highly restricted [...]
Many security experts are predicting that we may have already reached the dangerous “tipping point” in the Cyber-War. Couple this critical danger with an anticipated surge in appropriated funds, and you have cyber security at the forefront of most government contracting agendas in 2009. In a recent interview, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff spoke of what he [...]
