On February 28, please join the American Heart Associate at the 11th Annual Heart Ball. This black-tie celebration will support the goals of the AHA and host more than 600 doctors, executives, and community leaders to support programs and research for the American Heart Association. Event Details: Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Ritz-Carlton, Tyson’s Corner 1700 [...]
Citibank has garnered quite a bit of attention from TARP watchers over its plans to purchase a foreign-built $50MM Dassault luxury 12 Passenger corporate jet. This comes on the heels of news that the former CEO of Merrill Lynch (Bank of America) spent $1.2 million refitting his office early last year.On November 18th, 2008, Congressional [...]
Northrop Grumman recently announced it would streamline its sector units from seven to five in order to improve the company’s program performance and enhance its cost competitiveness. The five new sectors will be aerospace systems, electronic systems, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services — and Linda Mills will be a key part of that change. [...]
Back in August David Kriegman was named President of TechTeam Government Solutions, an IT-services based provider in Chantilly, Va. In this week’s Executive Spotlight, Kriegman talks about TechTeam’s business development goals for the coming year, the trends he’s tracking, the latest in cyber security issues, and how he unwinds away from the office. What leadership [...]
Web 2.0 activity has exploded across the government, and few have a better understanding of what that change will mean than Dan Mintz, former chief information officer with the U.S. Department of Transportation. Mintz’s recent responsibilities included serving as the senior agency official for privacy and the Secretary’s lead for the Department’s Identity Theft Task [...]
The winds of change are blowing in the government marketplace, and nowhere is that change more felt than in the realm of web-based communications. For the latest in Government 2.0 trends, we recently sat down with Andrea Baker, director of technology and self-described “social web evangelist,” who works with Navstar, a Falls, Church, Va.-based provider [...]
Ask Elizabeth Smith what her greatest leadership challenge is, and she’ll be the first to tell you: the one she’s facing now as the new executive vice president at Perot Systems. It’s also a challenge that Smith’s background has more than equipped her to handle. “It’s requiring me to take all the best practices I’ve [...]
