EMC has unveiled a new enterprise-grade big data offering equipped with Pivotal HD that seeks to combine analytics capabilities and a highly scalable infrastructure. The new Data Lake Hadoop storage arrays include EMC Isilon X410 nodes that have been preconfigured for quick deployment as well as the SQL-compliant Pivotal HAWQ …

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has joined Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board in an effort to help application developers and businesses adopt cloud foundry. The company intends to expand its cloud services and help customers develop business software and applications through Pivotal’s cloud foundry, Verizon said Tuesday. John Harrobin, chief marketing officer of …

NCI Information Systems has been awarded a three-year, $28 million follow-on contract to upgrade Wired and Wireless Local Area Networks (LAN/WLAN) for the Defense Health Agency (DHA). “This win is a pivotal piece of NCI’s business strategy," said Paul Dillahay, president and CEO of NCI and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient.

ExecutiveBiz is pleased to recognize the most significant executive recruiters of consequence influencing the government contracting (GovCon) industry with its seventh annual list of the Top Ten Executive Recruiters for 2020. Executive recruiters play a pivotal part in maintaining the success of the sector’s most important companies to lead the continued growth of the GovCon industry as a whole. 

Ball Corporation has appointed Daniel Fisher, senior vice president, as the company's president and member of its board of directors, effective 2021. Lisa Pauley, SVP of HR and administration, and Scott Morrison, SVP and chief financial officer, were also promoted to Ball's executive vice presidents and will retain their current responsibilities.

PredaSAR Corporation has appointed David Mann, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, as vice president of strategy, Army systems and defense programs tasked to support Army, Department of Defense and other government customers. “We are excited to welcome Lt. Gen. Mann, another trusted and highly respected senior leader to join our growing company,” said PredaSAR Executive Chairman Marc Bell. 

Octo Consulting and Indica Labs have partnered to launch the online COVID Digital Pathology Repository, a virtual collection of high resolution microscopic COVID-related human tissue images hosted at the National Institutes of Health, Octo announced on Thursday.

With less than a month left to vote before the June 1st deadline, your time is running out to recognize your favorite executives in the industry. Click here to vote for your favorite executives from the GovCon sector.

Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Christopher Kubasik, president and chief operating officer of L3Harris Technologies, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for his leadership during the merger of L3 Technologies and the Harris Corporation in 2019 as well as his efforts to advance military capabilities for the U.S. 

Shawn Purvis, corporate vice president and president of enterprise services at Northrop Grumman, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the specific challenges that are facing the aerospace and defense industries and how enterprise services will enable Northrop to overcome them.

Phoenix Oversight Group, a consulting firm specializing in mortgage technology, has received Accenture’s recognition as small business of the year for 2019.

CNSI announced on Wednesday it named David Adams, former chief financial officer of Endeavor Robotics, as executive vice president and CFO.

Mercury Systems announced on Wednesday that William Conley will join the company as chief technology officer, effective Sept. 30. Conley will direct and accelerate Mercury’s vision and leadership in innovative technology for the aerospace and defense industries.

Raytheon has formed partnerships with defense firms to develop new offerings focused on next-generation ground vehicles, munition systems and avionics platforms.

Raytheon’s air soldier team is working with Pivotal Software and using DevOps and Agile processes to speed up the development of military software at the company’s Indianapolis-based facility.