Kevin Shelly oversees the global public sector business of San Carlos, California-based enterprise software developer MarkLogic as a group vice president and leads the company’s work in government, healthcare and life science markets. Shelly joined MarkLogic in 2012 after service at Angel as sales VP for government and private sector markets and he is also a former sales SVP for […] More

A report by TechNavio predicts that global biometric spending in the government sector will climb in value from 2015 to 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of more than 14 percent. The company said Friday the availability of user-friendly and cost-effective biometric systems and past violent incidents that have created the need for 3-D facial recognition technology […] More

A new ABI Research report has projected the biometric security and surveillance industry to reach $26.8 billion in revenues by 2020. The report notes that biometric technologies have begun to attract consumer and banking markets in addition to strong market adoption in law enforcement and government applications, ABI Research said Thursday. ABI Research also reports […] More

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been selected to maintain and operate forensic and biometric software used by the U.K.’s Home Office under a two-year, $45.1 million re-compete contract award. The Forensic and Biometric Interim Capability software is part of the U.K.’s national infrastructure for policing, Northrop said Tuesday. Andrew Tyler, Northrop’s chief executive for Europe, said the […] More

Susan Keys started the current chapter of her GovCon and information technology career last year when she took a vice president role at Avaya‘s federal business organization — Avaya Government Solutions. Her career includes stops at commercial and GovCon firms such as Cisco, Lockheed Martin, Oracle and more recently Riverbed Technology. Keys recently caught up with […] More

Dave McClure made the jump from the public sector to business earlier this year when he joined cybersecurity firm Veris Group as chief strategist. McClure brings more than two decades of federal service to his role and retired from government in the spring as head of the General Services Administration‘s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies. […] More