After just seven more missions to the International Space Station (ISS), the Space Shuttle will retire without a replacement. Ex-Lockheed Martin CEO Norm Augustine, chair of the United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee review, has published his committee’s findings, and NASA’s budgetary future looks bleak. Augustine told PBS “the human space flight program really isn’t executable with [...]
Here’s a re-cap of a few executive transitions since early June: Larry Prior moved to ManTech, Walt Havenstein moved to SAIC, and Tony Zinni moved to BAE. In his first interview since taking office, Larry Prior talked about his top priorities and how he’s furthering ManTech’s position as an ‘essential partner’ in cyber and national security. [...]
Deloitte cyber expert and former White House director of Cybersecurity and Communications, Billy O’Brien sat down with ExecutiveBiz to discuss the aftermath of the 60-day Cyberspace Review and what every CEO should be asking themselves about the security of their company. O’Brien appreciates that the 60-Day review included vowing to protect our nations national infrastructures, [...]
Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) spoke to us recently about Capitol Hill’s view of government contractors, what jobs he feels are best left inside the government, compensation for procurement personnel, CIO Kundra’s federal dashboard, and more. Moran told us what the new Armed Services bill means for IT RFPs, and weighed in on who the new Cyber [...]
Wartime contracting has faced more than its share of criticism lately. Just last month, the Commission on Wartime Contracting released its interim report, which offered this bleak assessment: Since 2001, America’s reliance on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan has reached “unprecedented proportions.” But where some defense contractors might want to switch the subject, Suzan Zimmerman [...]
$20 Billion in UK healthcare IT spending for Google or Microsoft? In the UK, Conservative Party leader David Cameron has made it clear that he wants to scrap the Labour Party government’s “centrally determined and unresponsive” plan for a $20 billion national health data network, in favor of Google Health or Microsoft HealthVault, according to [...]
Larry Allen isn’t one to mince words. “Contractors right now have a target painted on their back,” says Allen, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement. That prognosis comes on the heels of President Obama’s recent contracting memo and a subsequent timetable by OMB that’s focused on five main areas: 1.) Contract review and monitoring, [...]
