M.C. Dean, Inc., one of the nation’s premier design/builders and system integrators, announced its third consecutive ranking in the top 10 of Engineering News Record’s annual Top 50 Electrical Contractors list. Several high-profile projects awarded to M.C. Dean, Inc. in 2007 contributed to its strong financial performance and #8 ranking in the 2008 list of [...]
With a new year and new administration, what new course will U.S. defense and security markets have to chart? Members of the Potomac Officers Club had the chance to hear answers to these and other questions first-hand when former Secretary of Defense William Cohen spoke at a recent POC event. Ad-libbing a line from Mark [...]
The Faces of a “New” Washington-Power Chart Change came to the nation’s capital this week, as President Obama was sworn in as our 44th President. Navigating through the myriad of names and faces of the new administration can be a daunting task. That’s why The Financial Times (FT) created an interactive “Power Chart” detailing a [...]
It’s been 10-plus years since its creation and IPv6 is finally gaining adoption momentum. AT&T is building a production-quality IPv6 data network for the U.S. Army in Germany. Meanwhile, Google just announced the option for accessing Google services over IPv6. But how will the technology play out in the federal marketplace? In our CEO Spotlight, [...]
In her role at Intelsat, Kay Sears is president of a wholly-owned subsidiary called Intelsat General. Intelsat General was formed after the Gulf War when the commercial satellite community rallied to support the military in a substantial way. “There was a realization that the government sector was a very important customer for satellite communications,” says [...]
Berney McVey has been appointed vice president and chief information officer for Information Systems at Northrop Grumman. Previously he served as vice president and CFO for the company’s former Information Technology sector. That IT sector recently merged with the Mission Systems sector and is now Information Systems, headed by Linda Mills. In 2008 ExecutiveBiz had [...]
It is hard to know what is keeping Melissa Hathaway up at night these days – the cyber security threat facing U.S. citizens, corporations and government entities or the cold and upper respiratory illness she has been battling this week. Hathaway is Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Cyber Coordination Executive, [...]
