Julio Villafane has been announced as the new managing director of the Caribbean/Latin America region for Harris RF Communications. Villafane will direct and manage all staff in the region, overseeing the regional headquarters in Miami as well as sales offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil,  Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City. He reports to Andy Start, who […] More

Oceus Networks announced this week several new additions to its Public Sector division. Alan Stewart joins the group as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to joining Oceus, Stewart served as CFO and senior vice president of ICF International, Inc., and CFO for DataZen, Blackboard and Deltek Systems, Inc. In his new position, […] More

GeoEye, Inc. has appointed Tony Frazier as senior vice president of marketing. Before GeoEye, Fraizer worked as senior director of product management and marketing at Cisco Systems, where he marketed emerging technologies core to Cisco’s video and collaboration strategy. “As we bring on new staff to accelerate our growth, we are pleased to welcome Tony […] More

A host of prominent government contractors have signed on to support the inaugural European Smart Grid Cyber Security Forum, taking place on the 14-15 March 2011 in London. As governments and utilities around the world continue to work on the deployment of the Smart Grid initiative, cybersecurity issues surrounding the business model are now top […] More

The European Smart Grid Cyber Security Forum will be held March 14““15 in London, organizer Smi Group announced today. The conference will focus on cybersecurity and national security issues surrounding deployment of smart grids, and will feature panels with industry experts and in-depth analysis. The event is being sponsored by Siemens, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin […] More

Top experts in cybersecurity, homeland security and national defense are scheduled to appear at this year“™s National Symposium on Homeland Security and Defense, held Oct. 27-29 in Colorado Springs, Colo. Among others, experts include Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; U.S. Northern Command Commander Adm. James Winnefeld, Jr.; Black Hat Director Jeff Moss; and […] More

Introduction Good morning, I want to thank Aviation Week for organizing this event.  The theme of this Forum is “Protect Your Enterprise with Secure and Resilient Information Flow.“  This is certainly a timely and important subject.  I know a number of the outstanding people on the program today, and I am sure that this will […] More

Australia’s Mater Health Services, Queensland’s largest not-for-profit hospital group, is making significant strides in achieving its Smart Hospital strategy with a roll-out of an expanded suite of business applications on its Cisco® Medical-Grade Network across its seven ultra-modern hospitals, Cisco Systems announced today. In the third year of its Smart Hospital information and communications technology […] More

We reported in June that new administration“™s defense budget includes major cuts to big spending programs.  But overall, will the DoD“™s bottom line really shrink?  Counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen, senior advisor to Afghanistan theatre commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, sees “about two more years of heavy fighting“ ahead of us in Afghanistan, and the Washington Post […] More

What do pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, IT player Cisco Systems and credit powerhouse American Express have in common?  They’ve ditched the traditional hourly model for legal fees to cut costs. Pfizer, which spends over $500 million annually on legal fees, says it will cut legal costs by up to 20%, mostly through flat-fee arrangements, according to […] More