Laura Schweitzer, a 24-year veteran of PwC, has been appointed director of the data and analytics practice at Herndon, Va.-based health information technology contractor B3 Group.

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston has selected a Guidehouse-PwC partnership to support a new program that will offer loans to small and medium-sized businesses. Guidehouse said Monday it will help manage asset purchase intake, due diligence and credit processes for the Main Street Lending Program.

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Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Scott McIntyre, CEO of Guidehouse, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 “” Executive Mosaic's annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena “” for his leadership in PwC's rebranding into Guidehouse and his role in expanding cybersecurity in the company. This marks the third consecutive Wash100 award for McIntyre.

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Dave Burg, former global cybersecurity leader at PwC, has been appointed to succeed the retiring Bob Sydow as cybersecurity leader for the Americas region at EY‘s advisory services business effective Oct. 1. EY said Monday Burg will help develop the firm’s EY cybersecurity consulting programs and offerings intended to help clients manage cyber threats. At PwC, Burg worked […] More

The PwC Public Sector business acquired by investment firm Veritas Capital in May now operates under the name Guidehouse, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Guidehouse’s website says the company will offer technology, management and strategy consulting services to multiple sectors that include the defense, national security and state and local government markets. The consulting firm is led […] More

PwC has established a facility in Israel that will support the protection of critical infrastructures, industrial control systems and operations technologies of worldwide governments and multi-national companies in the industrial sector. The Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is intended to provide a comprehensive cybersecurity framework that will cover approaches for the digital protection of national critical infrastructures, […] More

PwC has expanded its partnership with Microsoft in a push to help customers secure business systems and data with a suite of cybersecurity services and tools. The alliance’s new offerings will cover enterprise security architecture, identity and access management, threat and vulnerability management, information protection and cloud information security, PwC said Monday. Both companies also seek to […] More

Jean Hobby, a 33-year PwC veteran and former global strategy partner of the professional services firm, has been elected to serve on CA Technologies‘ board of directors. She will also serve on CA Technologies’ audit committee and her appointment will bring the number of board members to 11, the company said Thursday. Hobby served as PwC global strategy […] More

A study by PwC's consulting arm shows that U.S. aerospace and defense companies' spending on research and development efforts has climbed by nearly $12 billion so far this year, Defense News reported Wednesday. The Global Innovation 1000 study conducted by Strategy& has found that top U.S.-based A&D firms recorded $11.79 billion in R&D spending, a figure that is […] More

“[PwC] is a firm whose mission and purpose is to provide high-quality consulting that helps the government solve complex problems that impact our society today and into the future.” EM: Could you tell us about what you do with strategic sales and pipeline development at PriceWaterhouseCoopers? Chris Stansbury: At PwC Public Sector, LLC (PS), our […] More

PwC‘s strategy and consulting team has suggested various strategies the group believes can help defense companies win contracts in emerging countries such as Saudi Arabia, India, South Korea and Japan. PwC advisers Randy Starr and Anurag Garg wrote in a 2017 trend report they forecast that defense contractors will increasingly seek business with individual nations as military budgets in traditional defense […] More

A new report from PwC details five global trends the consulting firm forecasts as set to disrupt defense and security environments across the world. PwC said Thursday the “Five Megatrends and their implications for Global Defense and Security” report analyzes the potential impacts from shifts in global economic power; demographic shifts; urbanization; the rise of technology; and climate change […] More