John Lind serves as vice president of federal sales at QTS and is responsible in leading the company’s efforts to grow its federal systems group, which works with customers across the public sector. He has more than 20 years of information technology and telecommunications operations and sales leadership experience and most recently served as director of federal markets at […] More

Jim Reinhart, chief operating officer for operations and development at QTS Realty Trust, has been elected to chair the Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s economic development plan council. Reinhart will help the Blueprint Virginia’s Industry Council provide direction on business leadership direction and economic development for Virginia, QTS Realty announced Friday. Blueprint Virginia is a year-long statewide initiative […] More

QTS has rolled out an infrastructure-as-a-service offering intended to help U.S. government customers manage virtual data center workloads in the cloud. The QTS Federal Cloud suite is comprised of storage, networking and security services and designed to be compatible with Cisco, EMC and VMware computing environments, QTS said Wednesday. “QTS understands the IT needs and requirements […] More

The federal government purchases almost everything, from minor components to massive equipment, even research and technical assistance. However, the federal government does not buy anything without reliable regulations and preferential consideration. That is why the federal procurement data system was created!   The United States government procurement and contract opportunities are given to large and […] More

Seminars, workshops, conferences, and other large events or gatherings have been prohibited in the past few months due to the danger brought by the Covid19 pandemic. It indeed affects many people, especially those that are into organizing events. Although the event planning industry has been in a rough situation, event organizers are able to adapt […] More

Department 13 International and XiDrone Systems have teamed up to pursue intellectual property development related to counter-unmanned aerial systems, wireless communications and autonomous platforms. The partnership will provide patents rights to D13 to integrate its MESMER counter-UAS system with radar, electro-optical/infrared, radio frequency, acoustics and other sensors to build a platform designed to mitigate commercial […] More

Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch and Tim Conway, president of NTT Data’s public sector business, have been appointed to the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board of directors for fiscal year 2018-2019. Desch is one of the eight executives appointed by Rich Montoni, NVTC board chairman and vice chairman at Maximus, to the trade association’s board, […] More

Sehlke Consulting has been included in the Inc. magazine’s list of the 50 “fastest-growing” U.S. veteran-owned companies. The Arlington, Va.-based consulting firm said it landed the 18th spot on the Vet50 list that is based on last year’s Inc. 5000/500 ranking of the country’s fastest-growing private businesses. CEO Chad Sehlke said the company’s recognition can be […] More

Melvin Greer, chief data scientist for Intel’s public sector, has said developers of artificial intelligence platforms should follow an ethical standard when it comes to programming behavior in order to prevent AI technologies from being weaponized, Bisnow reported Wednesday. “The brake has to be applied by humans,” Greer said Tuesday during a panel discussion at […] More

A QinetiQ subsidiary has helped the Canadian navy conduct a live demonstration to simulate potential threats multi-rotor drones could pose to naval vessels. QinetiQ Target Systems demonstrated a rotary-wing target onboard a Halifax-class frigate for the military branch in November as part of a $6.6 million Unmanned Targets Repair, Overhaul and Engineering contract awarded in […] More

Carpathia, a QTS-owned subsidiary, has been certified by the International Organization for Standardization for colocation services the company offers through its data center in Northern Virginia. Carpathia said Wednesday the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification specifies security requirements for information technology systems that organizations need to adopt in order to achieve compliance with the standard. Peter Weber, chief […] More

Dara Dirth, director of marketing and communications at NJVC, has been elected to the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce board of directors for 2015 to 2016. The company said Wednesday Dirth will also co-chair DRCC’s GovConnections committee, which will work with small and midsize businesses on current issues in the government contracting space. “NJVC is proud to […] More