In 2006 Anteon, one of the area’s largest government contractors, was sold to General Dynamics for $2.1 billion. The transaction marked the successful culmination of a stratospheric growth story for the Anteon management team, which had guided the contractor from a $100 million company to the $2 billion mark in a decade’s time.
While Anteon began […]

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I’d like to consider myself fairly web-savvy. I subscribe to RSS feeds, use social bookmark sites, leverage Facebook and LinkedIn for professional purposes. And yet, attempting to send out a conference call meeting request from my Apple Mail program to clients with Microsoft Outlook proved maddening.
After banging my head against a wall for nearly an […]

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When Teresa Carlson, General Manager of Microsoft Federal Civilian Government and International Global Organizations, was asked to Chair the Fire and Ice Ball she jumped at the opportunity. Teresa was first introduced to the American Red Cross of the National Capital Area when she attended the 2007 Fire and Ice Ball as a guest […]

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Long before he ever became CTO of Nortel Government Solutions, Alan Harbitter started his own company, PEC Solutions, with two other partners. When it went public in 2000, Harbitter wound up running a publicly traded company for the next five years. Then, in 2005, another milestone occurred: The company reached 1,700 employees and a $250M […]

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“If you had 15 minutes alone with President Bush, what is the one critical issue you would bring to his attention?” Now, that might have been a dicey proposition for the POTUS if asked at a different D.C. venue today, but in the context of the ExecutiveBiz CIO Series Event held this morning at the […]

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Those who keep watch for examples of Federal largess often cast an eye towards government contractors. It is easy to get lost in eye-popping contract awards that can involve billions of dollars, but of course the devil is in the details: the actual amount awarded often ends up far less than contract ceilings, and there […]

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The political theater that is the presidential election season has us well accustomed to the daily barrage of polls and surveys each campaign is trumping. But it is a very different type of survey playing a key role in a massive Government IT contract awarded last year.
This past July, 29 firms were selected from a […]

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On Wednesday, I pulled the tech equivalent of a double header - attending ExecutiveBiz’s “the New New Internet” panel Q&A in the morning and the 2008 Southeast Venture Conference later in the day.
While no one seems to be able to agree on precisely what Web 2.0 means, the three panelists for the ExecutiveBiz morning event […]

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Some people – like me – open their front door, look across the street and see an elderly Asian couple who doesn’t speak a lick of English and believes my five year-old son to be the devil reincarnate. Others – like VisualCV Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder Clint Heiden – open their front door to […]

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When interviewed by ExecutiveBiz in May of last year, Jim Duffey, EDS Vice President and General Manager of U.S. Public Sector business, shared that a big challenge his company faced was to defend its market share. This is a challenge that will surely travel with him as Duffey transitions from EDS to Dell, where he […]

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