Though the U.S. enjoys the lowest unemployment rate in eighteen years at 3.9 percent, this only highlights the challenges of finding qualified talent. Nowhere is this more evident than in the government contracting marketplace, where both federal agencies and private sector companies are finding it difficult to find qualified employees. …

Lisa Pratt, recently appointed planetary protection officer at NASA, has said her near-term priorities include the Mars 2020 rover mission and InSight Mars lander mission that is set to take off May 5, SpaceNews reported Monday. Pratt, an astrobiologist and former professor at Indiana University’s department of Earth and atmospheric …

President Donald Trump has appointed Charles Verdon, a principal associate director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as deputy administrator for defense programs at the Energy Department‘s National Nuclear Security Administration. At LLNL, Verdon leads the federal research facility’s weapons and complex integration directorate that focuses on nuclear weapons programs, the White House …

The Defense Information Systems Agency has wrapped up modernization work on the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network as part of the SIPRNet Access Migration Project designed to facilitate network connectivity for mission partners DISA said Thursday it transitioned SIPRNet into a virtual network, reduced the network’s size and raised the bandwidth …

Raj Shah, head of the Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, resigned from his post Thursday after a nearly two-year stint with the organization, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Navy Capt. Sean Heritage will step into the acting leadership role at DIUx. Shah, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, took the helm in May …

“When a parent’s deployment or battle injury brings stress to a child, it’s amazing what simple activities–like ballet or baseball-can do. Help us engage them, encourage them…empower them.” OCT. 4, 2017 —Our Military Kids, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, supports children of deployed National Guard and Reserve and Wounded Warriors …

ExecutiveBiz announced its recent selection of the 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiters. ExecutiveBiz spoke to senior leaders at some of the GovCon sector’s most notable firms to find out whom they turn to when they need to fill an executive position. In our conversations, those GovCon leaders offered us the names of 10 …

CSRA President and CEO Larry Prior has joined the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council. He will be part of a team of 150 CEOs from the world’s top companies, from corporate to collaborators. “I am excited to join the world’s leading business executives to represent CSRA on the Wall Street …

Seventeen years ago, Evan Scott decided to focus on what he really loves, recruiting, and create ESGI, a firm that specializes in the federal contracting business. Although he had spent the previous 21 years building an executive search firm primarily in the commercial sector, Scott thought that the post 9/11 …

In July 2015, Sutherland Global Services created the Sutherland Government Solutions, Inc. (SGSI) to better serve the specific needs of its government clients.   Sutherland Global Services has been around since 1986 and is a world leader in technology-enabled business process services. They are a process transformation company for major …

Yale University and global consulting firm McKinsey & Co. aim to facilitate a conversation on how legal, business and policy leaders can work together on cybersecurity issues at the “Bridging the Divide” conference March 30-April 1 in New Haven, Conn. This first-ever Yale Cyber Leadership Forum aims to offer attendees …

Sponsored Content Providing communications services to the government is a big challenge. It takes research, planning, RFPs, analysis, integration and execution. The true litmus test, of course, is how effectively the deployment works in the end. Will it deliver the access and speeds required, and seamlessly integrate with disparate systems? Does …

(Jack London serves as executive chairman of CACI International) A key component of being a strong leader is exhibiting and empowering accountability. Organizations deal with a variety of challenges stemming from change, risk-taking and uncertainty. Here’s one disconcerting reality: People are afraid of acknowledging mistakes, let alone reporting and fixing …

(Dan Roche is the Director, General Management for Sapient Government Services) We, as people, take things for granted. It’s in our nature. It might be our families, our homes, our communities, our paychecks, but it’s always something. This very human trait doesn’t go away when we go to work. As …

(Keith Salisbury, vice president for U.S. federal sales at Pivotal, shares his insights about the changing nature of software and how industry works with public sector agencies to build modern software similar to Silicon Valley’s most-admired Internet companies with the goal of transformation in government.) The dominant cloud trend we are seeing now …