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ExecutiveBiz: What is your cyber security background and what are you doing now? Greg Garcia: I was the first presidentially appointed Assistant Secretary of Cyber Security and Communications from 2006 to 2008. Prior to that I was the Vice President at the Information Technology Association of America for their cyber security program, …

For military retirees, it’s a common scenario: Within five years a retired officer may switch jobs roughly three times. Bud Langston wasn’t one of them. After retiring from the U.S. Navy in 1999, Langston made the switch to Oracle, where he now serves as vice president for Public Sector business …

It has been a few weeks since the 60-day White House Cyberspace Policy Review came out, now hear what think-tank leaders, policymakers and experts are saying. A Recap of the 60-day Review. 1.  Leslie Harris, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology: “welcomes the administration’s efforts to turn …

Aneesh Chopra, America’s first Federal CTO, spoke at the Digital Downtown event in New York City this week on two different but interconnected topics: the role of government in technology and the role of technology in government. Mr. Chopra gave an enthusiastic crowd of consumer electronics journalists and analysts his thoughts …

Heavy environmental  spending by the Obama administration will boost sales at AEA Technology as it mulls its recent acquisition of PPC, a US-based environmental data group. Mike Nigro, former chief executive of PPC and now chief operating officer at AEA remarked, “The stimulus package that [President] Obama has put forth includes $40 …

Northrop Grumman promoted Dr. George Peach Taylor Jr., former vice president of Healthcare IT, as the first Chief Medical Officer at Northrop Grumman. Dr. Taylor will also assume the position of vice president of the Los Angeles-based systems integrator. Dr. Taylor will be in charge of  Northrop Grumman’s health, homeland security, …

DoD is expected to announce the long-expected plan to establish a Cyber Command on Monday, according to federalnewsradio.com. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn will speak at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on June 15, and, according to Jim Lewis, the director of the center’s Technology and Public …

Twelve Maryland tech firms have won $50,000 each in new funding through the Ft. Detrick Technology Transfer Initiative, aimed at bringing medical technologies to the market. The four-year-old program is run by the Maryland Technology Development Corporation, with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the Frederick County …

Harrowing economic times would usually be even scarier for a start-up firm like Hyper9 Inc., and Chief Technology Officer Dave McCrory. Yet McCrory says he isn’t worried. Why? Because business is better than expected for the two-year-old Austin, Texas-based firm and its Hyper9 platform virtualization management software, and phones are …

The E-Verify program will be extended for two years and cybersecurity budget will be increased if the 2010 Homeland Security Department spending bill approved by a House subcommittee makes it through the rest of the process. The House Appropriations Committee’s Homeland Security Subcommittee allocated $42.6 billion in discretionary funds for …

INDUS Corp. announced that VP Mike Mullen has been elected Vice Chair At-large of the Industry Advisory Council’s (IAC) Executive Committee. IAC works to bring together industry and government executives in order to exchange information, support professional development, improve communications, and build partnership and trust. INDUS CEO Shiv Krishnan said, …

State and federal officials aren’t the only ones watching out for the beginning of hurricane season. Government contractors, providing infrastructure, disaster relief and database back-up solutions have also joined in the conversation, and one with a proven hurricane track record is Affiliated Computer Services (ACS). ACS works with state and …

SRA International Inc. and CSC will partner to pursue the Federal Aviation Administration’s National Airspace System Integration Support Contract III.  SRA intends to bid as a prime on NISC III, which will be awarded in early 2010, according to an announcement earlier today. SRA President and Chief Executive Officer Stan …

Most of us look forward to a steaming hot cup of coffee or tea to start the day. Some of us look forward to a mid-day tea or an espresso after dinner. So there is no question that these two hot beverages turn up at some point during most American’s …

Hello from EHS Corporate Care. Most of you have followed the reporting of the so-called Swine Flu outbreak with both interest and angst. Initial reports made this new strain of a mixed Influenza virus seem highly contagious and very deadly. Luckily, as the initial reports were evaluated and closer international …