For the past 19 years, The Federal 100 has recognized individuals who’ve led the way in vision and leadership within the federal IT community. This year, three individuals near and dear to the ExecutiveBiz community have joined the list: Melissa Hathaway, Bill Hoover, and Vivek Kundra. Nominated by Federal Computer Week readers and selected by [...]
Monday February 23, 2009. On Capitol Hill: The Honorable David Walker, President & CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and the former Comptroller General of the United States, had the opportunity to raise questions and voice his concerns over the fiscal state of the union directly to President Obama. Walker joined a select group of [...]
This past week, President Obama signed into law a government stimulus package. Energy is a major piece of the package, with roughly $50 billion earmarked for energy programs. So, how can 8(a) companies tap into the opportunity? For answers, ExecutiveBiz turned to Bobby Christian, president of Tangible, a solutions company focused on energy, security, and [...]
What makes a good CTO? With all the buzz about a first-ever federal CTO, more attention is being paid to that question. Whether on a national scale or at a company with ties to federal customers, the need for CTOs to bring the best in IT solutions and cybersecurity to the table is essential. Few [...]
Remember the days when the closest thing to a CIO was a “director of data processing”? How times have changed. In an age when IT has a huge impact on a company’s bottom-line, a CIO has to stay at the forefront of technology like never before. So, when Martin Wright was tapped as CIO of [...]
A little over a year ago, cloud computing was barely on anyone’s radar. Now you can’t go a day without hearing about it. Companies are investing billions of dollars in servers for cloud infrastructures. Microsoft is adding some 200,000 servers a year, Google as many as 500,000. By 2011, an estimated 15.8 million servers will [...]
On January 30th, 2009, President Obama signed into law Executive Order 13495, ensuring the non-displacement of qualified workers under service contracts. What does this mean for the local government contracting industry? According to the White House press release on the subject, Executive Order 13495 signifies that the government believes its procurement interests are better served [...]
