Earlier this month, Aneesh Chopra and Vivek Kundra announced the launch of the Open Government Directive. In case you missed it, Jon Stewart recently criticized the launch of Open Government on The Daily Show, which you can view here. In response to the criticism, Aneesh Chopra responded in an exclusive interview with ExecutiveBiz. View Chopra [...]
The past year has been a busy one for government contractors. The headlines have been filled with issues ranging from in-sourcing and de-conflicting to the surge of contractors that will be needed to support the effort in Afghanistan. This year has seen multiple multi-billion dollar deals that are changing the way companies within GovCon are [...]
Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) will address the Potomac Officers Club at a breakfast event on February 4th, beginning at 8:15 AM. Senator Webb served with distinction as a combat Marine platoon commander in Vietnam, earning the silver star, the Navy Cross, two bronze stars and two purple hearts at the infamous An Hoa Basin west [...]
It’s been a busy last few weeks for Aneesh Chopra. On Dec. 4, Chopra announced the Obama administration’s Open Government Directive. The news was enough to land Chopra a mention on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show . On the heels of all the buzz, ExecutiveBiz recently caught up with Chopra. We brought our list of questions [...]
Over the past five years, USIS President and CEO Bill Mixon has led the Falls Church, Va.-based company into some pretty ambitious areas of service: investigations, security solutions, training, law enforcement support, and information management. It’s a challenge he’s taken head-on. Backed by 20 years of experience in leading large professional services operations, Mixon has [...]
For Marc Perlman, it doesn’t get more exciting than this. “We are at an amazing point in our country,” says Perlman. “This is a unique time to make a difference and change the trajectory of the U.S. healthcare system,” he says. As global vice president of Oracle’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Business Unit, Perlman [...]
We sat down with Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO, just a few days after the launch of the Open Government Directive on December 8th, 2009. He was recently named the Chief of the Year by InformationWeek and has been an instrumental role in the U.S government’s IT operations in the past 9 months that he has [...]
