The Department of Navy is aiming to save 25 percent of its information technology budget within five years through enterprise deals with information technology manufacturers. Terry Halvorsen, DoN chief information officer, told Federal News Radio the Navy wants to reach agreements with any of the 15 IT manufacturers it is currently negotiating with. Halvorsen estimated [...]
Executive Mosaic, publisher of a suite of GovCon media properties, has closed it’s second year of print publishing with its release of the Winter 2011 issue of GovConExec magazine, the eighth and most in depth issue yet. The issue focus is C4ISR: GovCon Leaders Enable a New Era and is a one-stop shop for the driving executive insight and GovCon [...]
Robert Fecteau is the chief information officer for BAE Systems’ customer solutions operating group, reporting directly to the group president. Fecteau focuses on maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the company’s enterprise IT operations for both internal and customer business processes. One of his sets of responsibilities is to ensure that the company’s customer solutions infrastructure meets the standards of [...]
For the sixth consecutive year, Keane Inc.’s QATalyst solution has recently been recognized on InformationWeek 500, a listing of the top technology innovators in the U.S. The listing also tracks the technology, strategies, investments, and administrative practices of America’s best known companies. “The goal of the award winning QATalyst solution is to help CIOs accelerate [...]
Honeywell today announced Mike Lang as the company’s new vice president and chief information officer. Prior to this position, Lang served as vice president and chief information officer for Honeywell’s Automation and Control Solutions business. “Mike’s 20 years of experience in IT leadership and extensive knowledge of systems integration following 20 acquisitions over the past [...]
They’re coming. A new generation of workers. And SRA International’s Brian Michl is gearing up to create the kind of environment that meets their needs. It’s an enterprise in which mobile devices that support texting and video will supersede standard infrastructure computers, networks, and phones. “When you think about the millennium generation, coming forward, they’re going [...]
Here’s something every CIO should ban from their business-speak: “Internal customers.” Yes, no matter how many times you’ve heard it, or said it, it’s time to let that phrase go. Permanently. That’s how Federico Genoese-Zerbi sees it, as vice president of IT Business Partners for Boeing (reporting to Boeing CIO John Hinshaw.) Genoese-Zerbi’s take isn’t [...]
