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  • Executive Spotlight: Interview with Melvin Greer, Intel's Chief Data Scientist - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview with Melvin Greer, Intel’s Chief Data Scientist

    Melvin Greer is Chief Data Scientist, Public Sector Americas, at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for building Intel’s data science platform through artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive computing. His systems and software engineering experience has resulted in patented inventions in cloud computing, synthetic biology, and IoT bio-sensors for edge analytics. He has received the […] More

  • Kate Schuelke Joins Seagate as SVP, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kate Schuelke Joins Seagate as SVP, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary

    Kate Schuelke — formerly senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Intel‘s Altera Corp. subsidiary — has been appointed SVP, chief legal officer and corporate secretary at data storage company Seagate Technology. She will report to Seagate CEO and Chairman Steve Luczo and lead global security and government relations teams under her new roles, the […] More

  • DARPA Taps 5 Institutions to Develop ‘Graph Analytics Processors’ for Big Data Workloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps 5 Institutions to Develop ‘Graph Analytics Processors’ for Big Data Workloads

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has picked five organizations to create computing platforms designed to analyze and extract insights from large volumes of data. Intel, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm Intelligent Solutions, Georgia Tech and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will develop “graph analytics processors” under the Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit program, DARPA said Friday. The HIVE program […] More

  • Carahsoft to Resell Dell EMC's Converged Infrastructure Offering to Govt Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Resell Dell EMC’s Converged Infrastructure Offering to Govt Sector

    Carahsoft Technology has agreed to resell a Dell EMC-built converged infrastructure system to public sector organizations through the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 governmentwide acquisition contract vehicle. Dell EMC’s VxBlock System will work to help customer agencies modernize data centers and simplify information technology functions, Carahsoft said Tuesday. VxBlock is powered by Intel‘s Xeon processor and employs computation, network, storage and virtualization tools from […] More

  • Intel’s Melvin Greer to Receive BDPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel’s Melvin Greer to Receive BDPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award

    Melvin Greer, director of data science and analytics at Intel, will receive the Lifetime Achievement from Black Data Processing Associates in recognition of his contribution to the information technology sector. BDPA will present the award to Greer during the 39th Annual National Technology Conference and Career Fair that is set to kick off on July 26 in Cincinnati, […] More

  • Eric Barton Named CTO for DataDirect Networks' Software-Defined Storage Portfolio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Barton Named CTO for DataDirect Networks’ Software-Defined Storage Portfolio

    Eric Barton, former lead architect of Intel‘s high performance data division, has joined DataDirect Networks as chief technology officer of its software-defined storage portfolio. DDN said Wednesday his new role entails oversight of strategic roadmap, technology architecture and product design for the company’s newly formed Infinite Memory Engine business unit. “Barton is a visionary with a proven track record and deep understanding […] More

  • Cameron Chehreh: Converged Tech to Drive Dell EMC's Investment Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cameron Chehreh: Converged Tech to Drive Dell EMC’s Investment Strategy

    Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell EMC‘s federal business, has said converged and hyper-converged technologies will become “great focal areas” for Dell EMC, FedScoop reported Wednesday. Chehreh told the publication that software-defined networking is another information technology development that will drive Dell EMC’s investment strategy. “The last piece for us is all about the software, […] More

  • Intel, Carnegie Mellon Team Up on Cloud-Based Video Analytics Research Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel, Carnegie Mellon Team Up on Cloud-Based Video Analytics Research Program

    Intel has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to work on a three-year, $4.1 million program to research and develop analytics tools for public officials, businesses and consumers to obtain insights from large volumes of online video content. The company and CMU will conduct the research program at the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Cloud […] More

  • Executive Profile: Diana Burley, Executive Director & Chair of I3P - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Diana Burley, Executive Director & Chair of I3P

    Diana Burley has served as executive director and chair at the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection since October 2015. She is also full professor of human and organizational learning at the George Washington University. Burley previously worked as an associate professor, director of executive leadership doctoral program and chair of the human and organizational learning department at GW. The cybersecurity workforce […] More

  • Rivada Offers Alternative Public Safety Broadband Network for State Gov't Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rivada Offers Alternative Public Safety Broadband Network for State Gov’t Customers

    Rivada Networks plans to work with states and territories that want to opt out of the First Responder Network Authority’s wireless public safety broadband network. Herndon, Virginia-based Rivada said Friday it has begun to work with New Hampshire on a potential alternative broadband network strategy in case the state decides to develop a public safety network separate […] More

  • Industry Officials Talk Govt’s Reluctance to Share Cyber Threat Data at House Panel Hearing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Officials Talk Govt’s Reluctance to Share Cyber Threat Data at House Panel Hearing

    Industry officials told lawmakers at a House Homeland Security Committee’s cybersecurity panel hearing Thursday that that U.S. government is hesitant to facilitate cyber threat data sharing with stakeholders in the private sector, Nextgov reported Thursday. Scott Montgomery, a vice president at Intel Security, told House committee members that U.S. government investigators’ reluctance to share threat data […] More

  • Former Cisco, Intel Exec Andy Elder Named Riverbed Sales SVP for EMEA Region - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Cisco, Intel Exec Andy Elder Named Riverbed Sales SVP for EMEA Region

    Andy Elder, formerly president of Intel‘s security business operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has joined Riverbed Technology as SVP of sales in the same regions. Riverbed said Thursday the 25-year industry veteran will oversee sales and go-to-market strategies as well as help drive the company’s growth and transformation efforts across EMEA in his new position. “Andy’s proven inspirational leadership […] More