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On Monday, Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf spoke at the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).  The conference’s theme was “The New Normal? Policy Choices After the Great Recession,” so Director Elmendor had some remarks about policy based on the CBO’s January report on the budget and economic outlook …

As healthcare reform continues to dominate the headlines, government contractors will be called upon to implement whatever government initiatives come to pass — that much is clear. The question for contractors now is: What does it take to succeed in this space? We brought that question to 11 industry leaders …

Until recent years, cybersecurity has been approached largely as a technical problem with technical solutions. However, in recent years, the focus has broadened to include the human factor of cybersecurity. A significant percentage of successful cyber attacks exploit users who click links to infected sites or open infected attachments. Commonly …

As a reaction to increasing phishing attacks against Twitter users, Twitter is tightening security. Released, all direct messages submitted to Twitter will be viewed through a new URL, twt.tl. This new coding will not effect the user interface, but provide a more secure platform for direct messages. This site will …

At last week’s RSA Conference, security researchers with TippingPoint’s Digital Vaccine Group presented their research into mobile botnets. To date, the largest mobile botnet was centered predominately in Europe on “jailbroken” iPhones. Researchers Derek Brown and Daniel Tijerina were able to fool around 8,000 iPhone and Android users into “joining” …

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced that a cyber scams targeting U.S. small business have netted over $120 million and has cost U.S. companies approximately $25 million in the third quarter alone. The data, announced by David Nelson, a FDIC examination specialist, at the RSA Conference last week, highlights …

When hackers look assemble their tools to carry out attacks, they often look to exploit commonly used platforms in an effort to increase the number of potential targets. This is why more hackers write viruses for PCs instead of Macs, since the majority of the world’s computer users utilize PCs. …

Job Description Req Number: 22492BR Title: Cyber Threat Analyst Specific Responsibilities: Candidate will be part of a cyber threat analysis team, specifically the Surface Analysis Group. Responsible for an advanced level of all-source analysis of cyber threats to US Federal Government networks. This position is unique to the cyber security …

Michael Cowan is chief medical officer at the federal health sector of Deloitte Consulting LLP. He joined Deloitte in June 2009 upon its acquisition of BearingPoint’s Federal Practice. He is responsible for clinical leadership in healthcare, social services and Federal health consulting. He leads the development of new service offerings …

Dave Melcher is senior vice president of ITT Defense & Information Solutions. He joined ITT in 2008 as vice president of strategy and business development for defense. He was named president of ITT’s defense business and elected a corporate vice president later that year. Before joining ITT, Melcher held a …

Tony Spehar serves as vice president and program manager for the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Prime Integration Contract at Northrop Grumman Corporation. Most recently, Spehar was the chief engineer and director of the company’s Missile Systems Center of Excellence. Prior to that, he was vice president and general manager of the …

Cyril Garcia is strategy director at Capgemini and serves on the Group Executive Committee. He is  a 1989 graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, a major French business and politics school. He began his career in 1991 as an adviser to the then-Minister of Industry Dominique Strauss-Kahn. In …

In a recent blog post titled “On A Smarter Planet…Some Organizations Will Be Smarter-er Than Others,” Jeff Jonas described what will happen to firms who handle prediction-enabling information better than others. “The winners will be those organizations that make better decisions, faster,” writes Jonas.  “How fast?  Fast enough to do something …

Good news for Northrop Grumman this week: the firm landed a $100 million BPA to go along with a $775 million CANES award from the Navy. SAIC turned heads with a $625 million software deal from the Navy and added a BPA through subsidiary R.W. Beck for good measure. Paul …

If there ever was an international classic in business and management books, “The One Minute Manager” (William Morrow) by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson would be it. Published in 1982 and hailed as a No. 1 bestselling phenomenon, the book has taught millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and …