We brought our camera to the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons on Thursday for the Ernst & Young Executive of the Year awards. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra and CTO Aneesh Chopra took a break from their marathon push to meet the administration’s ambitious IT goals to congratulate industry leaders and take in some top-notch surf-and-turf (or, in [...]
Cyber Community in 5 easy steps? OK, maybe the steps aren’t that easy, but they can simplify and improve your focus on building a more cooperative and efficient cybersecurity model across industry and government. Mark Gerencser is the author of the well known book Megacommunities and the following is taken from his recent ExecutiveBiz interview: Click here for [...]
Responding to recent budget changes from the new administration, government contractors like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin are increasingly diversifying their national defense strategy to include civillian and business assets. The new administration’s defense budget includes major cuts to Missile Defense, Future Combat Systems and Navy shipbuilding operations, as well as killing controversial programs to build a new presidential [...]
Secretary Chertoff will address the Potomac Officers Club on July 16th, so mark those calendars. Members and invited guests can click here to register. It’s been a busy couple of months for former Homeland Security Secretary. He’s started his own security consulting firm, the Chertoff Group and joined the law firm Covington & Burling as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
EDS, an HP company, has been awarded a $111 million contract by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide security readiness reviews for the Department of Defense (DoD). These readiness reviews will support DISA’s mission to provide integrated, agency-wide protection and operational restoration capability to counter security threats. Under the contract, EDS will [...]
