Ralph R. Tuccillo has been named the next corporate vice president of capture management for ManTech International Corporation. Tuccillo brings both private industry and military technology experience to the role. Previously, Tuccillo brought in new government deals as senior vice president of business development for McNeil Technologies and senior vice president for capture management at [...]
Dell has announced that Richard Pinada, former general manager of the company’s Department of Defense Division, has been appointed as Chief Operations Leader (COL) of the company’s Dell Services Federal Government Division and will assume the position immediately. Pineda joined Dell Services, formerly Perot Systems, in March 1997. Since that time, he has played a [...]
Following the first installment in the Washington Post’s investigative series, “Top Secret America”, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement yesterday clarifying the relationship between the intelligence community and contractors. ODNI dispelled several common “myths” surrounding IC’s relationship with contractors in the document. Of the misconceptions, contract budgets, federal oversight of [...]
Recently, the Department of Defense’s Brigadier General Michael Brogan weighed in on a heated topic: poaching of federal contractors. For other takes on the issue, here are some additional perspectives: Renny DiPentima, former CEO, SRA “Poaching” was a constant issue when I was CEO, including “poaching” by the government. While poaching by other government contractors [...]
Defense Secretary Gates spoke today on the future direction of the Pentagon’s weapons programs and specifically how this change of direction will impact military personnel, existing weapons programs and long term planning. He touched on a large number of specific programs such as the Joint Strike Fighter. Large government contracting firms Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC), SAIC [...]
In his classic work describing the state of the Chief Technology Officer discipline ”The Role of the CTO”, Tom Berray of Cabot Consultants articulates four models of CTOs: The Infrastructure Manager The Big Thinker The Technology Visionary and Operations Manager The External-facing Technologist These well defined models were based on discussions with hundreds of technologists [...]
In the context of enterprise IT, a “mega trend” is a long term movement in time that drives large masses of people and is a forcing function for strategic directions. One of the mega trends sweeping over us all right now is Web2.0. This trend will continue to impact government in 2008. Here are a [...]
