In case you missed him, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra was on Capitol Hill yesterday reiterating the administration’s intent to move more government data online. “We’re ensuring that we create a much more transparent and open government so the American people know what’s going,” said Kundra, speaking before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. [...]
For many mid-sized companies it’s a common challenge: They’re too big to be small and too small to be big. But where some see challenge, Scott Goss sees opportunity. As president and CEO of Preferred Systems Solutions (PSS), an information technology, engineering services, and program management company based in McLean, Va., Goss has guided PSS [...]
Well before “cybersecurity” became the topic of the day on a national scale, Jim Lewis was tracking it. Since coming on board the Center for Strategic and International Studies in 2001, Lewis has made cybersecurity his main focus. So, with all the talk — and unanswered questions — about the 60-day cybersecurity review upon us, [...]
With the results of Melissa Hathaway’s 60-day cybersecurity review set for release any moment now, questions are swirling as to its specific findings — and recommendations. Hathaway provided a few clues — or what she called “the 60-day movie trailer” — the other day at the RSA Conference, an annual gathering of internet security experts [...]
From cybersecurity to tightening budgets, federal agencies are facing the task of doing more with less. Helping federal customers come up with a game plan to tackle these and other issues — everything from green IT to data center transformation — is Tom Hempfield, head of HP’s federal business organization. On the heels of HP’s [...]
It’s been less than a year since John Edwards was appointed president of Agilex Technologies‘ intelligence, security and defense sectors. In that time, Edwards has helped steer the Herndon, Va.-based IT solutions provider toward greater focus in those areas. Here Edwards discusses which IT services are resonating the most with his federal customers — information [...]
From the web-enabled transformation of government to the promotion of greater collaboration between the public and private sectors, Aneesh Chopra has his work cut out for him as the country’s first-ever federal chief technology officer. To get a sense of how Chopra might fare in his new role, we asked some of the area’s CTOs [...]
