L-3 Communications‘ army fleet support unit has won an award for contribution by a major contractor from the Army Aviation Association of America, L-3 announced Wednesday. The unit won the AAAA’s 2011 Army Aviation Materiel Readiness Award for supporting aircraft maintenance and logistics support at the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, Ala. […] More

Chris Formant is senior vice president and president for Avaya Government Solutions, where he oversees the government solutions provision of secure communications solutions to government customers. Formant previously led Avaya’s global services business, where the company credits him for driving growth in many of the business’ programs. Under Formant’s leadership, the global services unit received […] More

John Steckel is vice president of business development for Raytheon‘s subsidiary, Raytheon Technical Services Co. Steckel implements long-term strategic plans and creates, identifies and develops new business opportunities. He is also responsible for the company’s strategic partnerships. Before joining Raytheon, Steckel was a longtime employee of BAE Systems. His most recent position at BAE was vice […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. today announced it has appointed a 33 year veteran in life cycle support of weapons systems and technology development to its leadership team. Richard DeFatta joins the company as the vice president of engineering support services for the madison research business unit of the weapon systems solutions division, and will […] More

R.J. Kolton has been a member of Ideal Innovations‘ executive team since November 2010 and currently serves as senior vice president of the company’s strategy and corporate development. In his position, Kolton both plans and implements corporate growth strategies. He provides support to managers of the company’s business units, assisting in expanding business services and identifying […] More

SAP announced today that Eric Verniaut has joined the company to lead its generation service organization. The new organization is responsible for dealing with increased customer demand for business analytics, mobility and on-demand projects. Verniaut's team will also focus on lowering project costs, and improving customer satisfaction. Veriaut has worked with companies such as IBM, […] More

  Harris Corporation’s Karen Sledge, vice president, controller, Broadcast Communications Systems, has been featured in Profiles in Diversity Journal’s 10th annual list of Women Worth Watching. She is one of the total 131 business representatives recognized based on employer nominations. The September/October 2011 issue of the magazine featured an essay from Sledge as well as other recognized […] More

Peter Santighian is the vice president of consulting services at CGI Federal and originally joined CGI in August of 2010 when the company acquired Stanley Inc. Santighian leads CGI’s strategic development team focused on organic growth across all five CGI Federal Business units. Santighian worked at Stanley for 13 years serving in various positions, one of […] More

L-3 Communications and Virginia Tech have announced a partnership in cybersecurity and research development with Virginia Tech’s Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology, a program for developing future government industry leaders. L-3 announced that it will be constructing a Cyber Security Solution Center parallel to Virginia Tech’s Cybersecurity Innovations Lab in […] More

Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell helped kick of Dell World 2011 in Dell’s inaugural customer conference. Dell World brings industry leaders together to discuss the changing technology landscape. “Earlier this year we announced a $1 billion investment in technology solutions, extending the company's global reach into data center, mobile and cloud environments,“ Dell said. […] More

CIBER will be working with prime contractor Wexler Technical Solutions, Inc. under the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Blank Purchase Agreement. The five-year BPA provides software and maintenance support to the DHS ICE Systems Development Division, which acts as the investigative arm of the DHS. The BPA has a $50 million […] More

The U.S. Energy Department has selected NetApp to provide the storage foundation for its Sequoia supercomputer, which the company expects to be twice as fast as today’s most powerful system. Sequoia will be housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a DOE and National Nuclear Security Administration establishment whose primary mission is to ensure the safety, […] More