This year marks the first increase in overall federal contract spending since 2010, Deltek‘s Kevin Plexico wrote in a Washington Post piece published Sunday. Plexico, vice president of information solutions at Deltek, estimates the departments of State and Commerce, Small Business Administration and Securities and Exchange Commission increased their spend on contracts by more than 20 percent […] More

Bill Sullivan leads Informatica‘s public sector business in North America as vice president and general manager. Sullivan’s more than two-decade career includes stops at Lockheed Martin, where he led that company’s Savi Technology business, and a VP and GM role for North American state and local markets at PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle. In this conversation with […] More

Kevin Phillips serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer at ManTech International. Prior to his CFO appointment, he participated in business issues and the integration of acquisitions as a corporate VP and chief of staff. He joined ManTech in December 2002 upon that company’s acquisition of information technology and software contractor CTX Corp., where he served as that company’s […] More

Federal agencies that want to acquire cloud computing technologies and services should realize that public cloud platforms are not the only way forward for them as they push to adopt cloud tools, Steve Picot of Vion Corp. has told ExecutiveBiz. Picot, vice president of federal sales for the federal technology services contractor, also told ExecutiveBiz that agencies […] More

The Intelligence Community LLC has sought the help of the crowd through the firm’s new marketplace for freelancers to promote their ideas in the national security and intelligence arenas. Between October 27th and December 5th, interested individuals and companies will have the opportunity to back these ideas through the open-funding platform IndieGoGo. In this two-part conversation with ExecutiveBiz, CEO Graham Plaster discusses […] More

The Human Resources Association of the National Capital Region has released new data that indicates demand for employees with security clearances dropped in 2014, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Aaron Gregg writes the HRA-NCA report also suggests the number of contractors offering pay differentials for security-cleared personnel could decline to 37 percent in 2014 from the 72 percent recorded in 2010. […] More

Curt Nothstine oversees all finance-related activities for Boeing‘s network and space systems business as the unit’s chief operating officer and vice president. He elevated to his current role in 2012 after two years of service as director of accounting in the aerospace company’s defense, space and security segment and is a former board member of Alsalam Airlines. […] More

Jim Reagan, chief financial officer at Vencore, brings nearly two decades of financial leadership to his role at the technology services contractor and oversees the company’s fiscal support functions. Vencore, formerly known as The SI Organization, closed its potential $165 million purchase of QinetiQ’s U.S. services and solutions group in May and announced the new name of “Vencore” […] More

Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, says the health information technology and cybersecurity areas present the company with opportunities for growth in the federal market, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Amrita Jayakumar writes that Asbury told the Post in a phone interview the company also wants to acquire businesses that specialize in health IT, […] More

John Slye, an advisory research analyst at Deltek, projects USAID and the State Department to respectively spend 38 percent and 35 percent of their IT contracting budgets in September as the fiscal year closes. Slye writes Thursday that the above two agencies lead the 25 federal organizations that are likely to spend a total of $17.3 billion on IT […] More

John Pranzatelli is the president of MBDA Inc., where he is responsible for working with U.S. military customers and partners to develop new products and grow MBDA Group’s presence in the U.S. market. Prior to this role, he was MBDA’s vice president for strategy and business operations. Before joining MBDA, Pranzatelli served at Northrop Grumman as vice […] More

Several U.S. national security, intelligence and information technology experts will present at the annual SAP NS2 Solutions Summit in Falls Church, Virginia on Oct. 30. The event, themed “Decoding the New Era of U.S. National Security,” will include forums on cyber and insider threats, big data and sequestration, SAP NS2 said Tuesday. SAP NS2 Chairman […] More