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  • Steve Robinson: IBM, CSC Extend Collaboration to Help Accelerate Cloud Tech Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Robinson: IBM, CSC Extend Collaboration to Help Accelerate Cloud Tech Adoption

    Computer Sciences Corp. has expanded its partnership with IBM to help enterprise clients accelerate development of cloud business applications with IBM’s Bluemix platform-as-a-service offering. The agreement allows CSC to offer the IBM technology to developers and customers who aim to build computing tools for on-premises, private, public or hybrid cloud environments, IBM said Monday. Steve […] More

  • TechNavio: Global Cybersecurity Market in Finance to Hit 13% CAGR through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechNavio: Global Cybersecurity Market in Finance to Hit 13% CAGR through 2019

    A new TechNavio report has forecast a 13.14 percent year over year growth for the cybersecurity market in the banking, financial services and insurance sector through 2019. The report notes a rise in the BFSI sector’s adoption of cybersecurity services and presents global growth prospects for the 2014-2019 forecast period, ReportsnReports said Saturday. According to the analysis, an increase in […] More

  • Research Firm ExecRank Puts GovCon Leaders on 'Top CIO for 2014’ List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research Firm ExecRank Puts GovCon Leaders on ‘Top CIO for 2014’ List

    Research and advisory firm ExecRank has unveiled its annual list of 250 of the “Top CIOs for 2014,” a ranking of chief information officers across all industries that evaluates these leaders across 24 different categories. For this exercise, ExecRank says it developed a series of algorithms over three years to measure executive performance and predict future executive […] More

  • Research and Markets: Banking, Financial Services Security Market Worth $37B by 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Banking, Financial Services Security Market Worth $37B by 2019

    Research and Markets forecasts that the banking, financial services and institutions (BFSI) security market currently valued at $21.53 billion will reach a market value of $37.35 billion by 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 11.6 percent. The firm said Monday that the BFSI security market is segmented into two widely adopted submarkets, the physical security systems […] More

  • IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov't Cloud Adoption Continues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC Evaluates 12 IaaS Vendors as Gov’t Cloud Adoption Continues

    IDC‘s Government Insights segment has released a new report on its evaluation of 12 cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors in the federal marketplace against set of weighted parameters for both short-term and long-term deployments. The research firm said Friday that the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment” report used pricing, scalability, compute services, value-added services and a single […] More

  • Executive Profile: Robert Carey, CSC Public Sector Cyber VP and GM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Robert Carey, CSC Public Sector Cyber VP and GM

    Robert Carey serves as vice president and general manager for the public sector cybersecurity business at Computer Sciences Corp. He joined the company in April after a 32-year government career that concluded with three-and-a-half years of work as principal chief information officer at the U.S. Defense Department. Carey also led eBusiness and smart card programs […] More

  • Executive Profile: Luis Ambroggio, VP of Contracts, Compliance at International SOS Government Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Luis Ambroggio, VP of Contracts, Compliance at International SOS Government Services

    Luis Ambroggio serves as vice president of contracts and compliance at International SOS Government Services, where he oversees the compliance of the company’s subcontractors and performance on government service contracts. Ambroggio also is responsible for functions related to contract administration, internal audit and internal policy for government projects such as the TRICARE overseas program. He previously served as director of subcontracts compliance for Computer […] More

  • INSA Appoints 4 Execs to Board of Directors, 3 to Board of Advisers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Appoints 4 Execs to Board of Directors, 3 to Board of Advisers

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has appointed executives from TASC, Noblis, CSC and PwC to its board of directors and executives from Boeing, The Carib Group and Northrop Grumman to its board of advisers. INSA said Friday it named TASC CEO John Hynes and PwC Partner Peter Seegers directors after their terms as advisers have expired, while the three new […] More

  • Executive Profile: Kurt Tripp, Defense-Security Sector VP and Manager at Parsons - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Kurt Tripp, Defense-Security Sector VP and Manager at Parsons

    Kurt Tripp serves as vice president and manager of Parsons‘ defense and security sector within the government services segment and holds responsibility over the sector’s growth strategies. Tripp previously served as program executive for the air and missile defense programs within Parsons‘ defense and security sector and, prior to that, as program executive for Parsons’ security and mission-support training business. He joined Parsons in […] More

  • Executive Profile: Eric Wieman, STG Civil Sector SVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Eric Wieman, STG Civil Sector SVP

    Eric Wieman serves as senior vice president of STG‘s civil sector, which comprises the software and systems development group, financial services group and the consulting and technical services group. Wieman joined the company in May as general manager of the systems design and development segment and now leads a business organization that offers software and systems design, development […] More

  • Deltek's Alex Rossino: Army ITES-3S Vehicle to Be 'More Heavily Utilized' Than Predecessor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: Army ITES-3S Vehicle to Be ‘More Heavily Utilized’ Than Predecessor

    Deltek‘s Alex Rossino has outlined his analysis of the U.S. Army‘s spending on the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 2 – Services vehicle in an effort to help vendors prepare for the upcoming ITES-3S iteration in fiscal year 2015. “ITES-3S is expected to be even more heavily utilized than its predecessor due to the Army’s desire to push more of its IT acquisition […] More

  • CSC, HP Forge Testing-as-a-Service Platform Partnership; Raffi Magaliot Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC, HP Forge Testing-as-a-Service Platform Partnership; Raffi Magaliot Comments

    CSC has partnered with HP to provide clients with a testing-as-a-service platform that offers HP’s quality management and application testing tools to clients on a pay-as-you-go basis. CSC said Thursday it wants platform to help clients that want to make their development projects more agile and bolster time-to-market by supporting the testing and delivery of their applications and software. “It’s not enough for agile application teams to […] More