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  • Part 2 of Q&A With LGS CEO Kevin Kelly - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Part 2 of Q&A With LGS CEO Kevin Kelly

    This is part two of our chat with Kevin Kelly, LGS Innovations‘ CEO. Click here for part one. ExecutiveBiz: How would you describe the current state of the GovCon M&A market? What do LGS and other companies look for in potential targets? Kevin Kelly: It is very active. In the course of the last twelve months, LGS has looked […] More

  • Leon Panetta Joins Oracle Board; Michael Boskin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leon Panetta Joins Oracle Board; Michael Boskin Comments

    Leon Panetta, former Pentagon and CIA chief, has been elected to the board of directors at Oracle. The yearlong appointment, which brings the number of Oracle’s board members to 12, was made via unanimous decision at the company’s annual shareholders meeting, Oracle said Monday. “Panetta is a dynamic leader with a distinguished record of public service at the […] More

  • Executive Profile: Tim Reardon, Lockheed VP & GM of Defense-Intelligence Solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Tim Reardon, Lockheed VP & GM of Defense-Intelligence Solutions

    Tim Reardon serves as vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin‘s defense and intelligence solutions business, an organization with nearly 15,000 employees in the Washington metropolitan region, six other states and overseas in the U.K., Australia and the Middle East. The 14-year company veteran leads a business that works with defense and intelligence agencies in the U.S. and […] More

  • Maryann Hirsch: Agencies' Cyber Budget Requests to Continue Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maryann Hirsch: Agencies’ Cyber Budget Requests to Continue Growth

    Government agencies will continue to see an increase in their budget requests for cyber operations even as overall budgets remain flat, according to KCG President Maryann Hirsch. In a piece for Security Magazine published Friday, Hirsch wrote that U.S. Cyber Command more than doubled its funding to $447 million in 2013 and the Department of Homeland Security‘s cybersecurity operations funding grew $792 million […] More

  • Former CIA Tech Chief Gus Hunt Joins Stateless Networks' Board of Advisers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former CIA Tech Chief Gus Hunt Joins Stateless Networks’ Board of Advisers

    Gus Hunt, formerly chief technology officer at the CIA until his retirement in 2013, has joined the board of advisers at San Francisco-based cyber intelligence and analytics software firm Stateless Networks. “Gus played a key role in bringing the most innovative technologies, including Amazon’s public cloud deployment, to the CIA,” Stateless Networks CEO Kelly Wanser said Friday. […] More