
Derek Johnson serves as vice president of business development for Day & Zimmermann’s government services group. Johnson is a Marine Corps and National Security Agency veteran now responsible for growing the family-owned business’ support services to its government clients. Johnson recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about the perks of working for a privately held company, its [...]
March 14th, 2012 | Filed under Executive Spotlight | Read More »

Photo: Sheldon Fox, Harris Corporation Harris Corporation’s small lightweight and embeddable radio has received Type 1 certification from the National Security Agency. The Harris Small Secure Data Link provides embedded encryption capabilities in a single-channel, multiband, multimission radio. “We are honored to be able to bring this new capability to the warfighter, and excited that [...]
July 20th, 2011 | Filed under General | Read More »
ExecutiveBiz members have had the pleasure of interacting with a long line of IT thought leaders. One of note is Chris Rasmussen, a great advocate for information sharing and collaboration within the federal space and a master of the use of new tools to get groups working together on hard problems (read more about Chris [...]
March 25th, 2008 | Filed under Uncategorized | Read More »
IT leaders in government are wrestling with several competing forces in the Web2.0 world. The greatest force is a push for change towards more user-focused computing. But a resisting counter force threatens to delay this change. The counter force here is institutional inertia. Big organizations are just slow to change, and the larger, more complex [...]
December 5th, 2007 | Filed under Uncategorized | Read More »
My husband and I often chew the fat about what a pain it is to go back and forth between classified computer systems and non-classified systems—even rooms where the systems are housed. He works on government contracts in technology and intelligence, and he constantly accesses data throughout the day. So my ears perked up recently [...]
August 28th, 2007 | Filed under Uncategorized | Read More »