Last week, RSA held its annual conference out in San Francisco, CA. The conference brought together cyber experts from around the world, along with notable speakers like DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Howard Schmidt, the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator. The topics discussed range from cloud computing to botnets to the need […] More

When Northrop Grumman pulled out of the $40 billion competition to build aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force, leaving Boeing as the likely winner, some analysts questioned whether White House acquisition reform efforts are pushing contractors too hard. Loren Thompson, a defense industry expert at the Lexington Institute, told the Washington Post “it shows […] More

Present: Chief Medical Officer, North American Public Sector, CSC; also serves on the American Medical Association“™s Board of Trustees Career highlights: Wah began his career as a reproductive endocrinologist with a Harvard Medical School fellowship. He went on to serve as vice chairman of OB-GYN department at San Diego Naval Hospital. In 2001, began working […] More

Current: HP Federal Healthcare Leader Career history: Don Picard has been with HP Enterprise Services, formerly EDS, for 27 years. For more than 10 of those years, he“™s led the company“™s federal healthcare business, largely at CMS, then known as HCFA. Over the past several years, Picard has assumed responsibility for the company“™s full federal […] More

Present: Dell Perot Systems Vice President, Strategic Initiatives Career highlights: Came to Perot Systems five years ago as chief medical officer and consulting group lead. Previously, served as National Director and Partner for Clinical Transformation at Computer Sciences Corporation“™s Global Health Solutions Group, and as Chief Medical Officer at several healthcare organizations, including Aurora Healthcare […] More

Present: Vice President and Director, Health Programs, SRA Past: Nedzbala began his healthcare career with United Information Systems (UIS), where he served as vice president of IT services as the company expanded its Department of Defense (DoD) footprint into health. UIS was purchased by Constella Group in 2001, and, in 2007, Constella Group was acquired […] More

Present: Vice President, National Health Industry, CGI Past: Before coming to CGI, Campbell served as vice president in SAIC“™s civilian health practice. Campbell“™s first assignment in that role was supporting an interoperability project on behalf of the Department of Defense“™s Military Health System; she helped guide the switch from a legacy system to a new […] More

Present: Chief Medical Officer, Deloitte, Federal Health Practice Career highlights: Before joining the private sector in 2004 (first, at Oracle, BearingPoint, and finally, Deloitte in May 2009), Cowan had a 33-year career in the U.S. Navy. During Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, he served as the Joint Task Force (JTF) Surgeon. “I will forever be […] More

At this years RSA Conference held last week in San Francisco, Cloud Computing was the main topic of conversation. In issues ranging from the role of government in securing the Internet to  the concern of cyber warfare, the cloud was in the middle. Advocates of cloud computing talk about the lower costs and ability to make […] More

Within the European Union and NATO, security professionals have been circulating dire warnings to colleagues regarding the growing cyber espionage threat from China. In recent months, the Chinese have appeared to more aggressively target NATO, EU and U.S. networks in an effort to steal intelligence secrets. Within the EU, cybersecurity is left up to individual […] More

Wallace Davis is partner of higher education and nonprofits and a founding member of Attain. He has served the higher education, nonprofit, and academic medical center communities for more than 15 years. He has advised nearly 50 universities, academic medical centers, and nonprofit research institutes. Davis’s areas of expertise include facilities and administrative cost recovery; […] More

The lagging deal values brought on by the banking crisis of 2008 continued into 2009, according to “Mission Control,” PricewaterhouseCoopers annual review of merger and acquisition activity in the global A&D industry. The report finds that while deal values have turned up of late, it’s been smaller deals that make up the biggest portion of […] More