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  • Agilex's Roger Baker: Incremental, Agile Methods Key to Gov't IT Systems Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Agilex’s Roger Baker: Incremental, Agile Methods Key to Gov’t IT Systems Development

    Roger Baker, chief strategy officer at Agilex, wrote in a blog post published Monday that he learned during his service in federal government that an incremental and agile development methodology could improve the success rate for information technology programs. Baker said the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act offers an opportunity for federal chief information officers […] More

  • A Cyber Conversation With Microsoft's Scott Price and Pat Arnold - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A Cyber Conversation With Microsoft’s Scott Price and Pat Arnold

    With the Sony breach still in the forefront of many minds, the threat of cyber attacks and the methods agencies have to thwart them are high on the agendas of leaders in the GovCon arena. ExecutiveBiz spoke with Microsoft executives Scott Price, general manager of the national security group and Pat Arnold, managing architect for cyber, to discuss cybersecurity in federal […] More

  • Harris Powers Maine's New Statewide Emergency Radio System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Powers Maine’s New Statewide Emergency Radio System

    Harris and the state of Maine’s information technology office have worked to deploy a new radio system intended to facilitate communications among public safety agencies throughout the state. The Maine State Communications Network is powered by the company’s integrated voice, interoperability, data and access technology, and designed to connect with 40 transmitter and receiver sites, […] More

  • TechServe Alliance's Report Shows IT, Engineering Jobs Growth in 2014; Mark Roberts Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechServe Alliance’s Report Shows IT, Engineering Jobs Growth in 2014; Mark Roberts Comments

    TechServe Alliance has estimated U.S. companies created 210,200 new information technology jobs and 36,300 new engineering positions over the past 12 months. On a month-over-month basis, the IT workforce across the U.S. grew by 0.4 percent to roughly 4,856,400 in February 2015, TechServe Alliance said Wednesday. The number of engineering workers last month was up […] More

  • Executive Profile: Mike Walsh, EMC Director of DoD Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Mike Walsh, EMC Director of DoD Operations

    Mike Walsh is the director for Defense Department operations at EMC Corp.‘s federal division and oversees a range of EMC products designed to help U.S. defense agencies manage information technology systems. He leads a team of professionals who work with DoD to address the agency’s IT infrastructure, application and security management challenges through the use […] More

  • Leidos to Manage Trinity Health’s IT Security Systems; Brad Wilber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Manage Trinity Health’s IT Security Systems; Brad Wilber Comments

    Trinity Health has selected Leidos to manage the healthcare provider’s cybersecurity systems in an effort to protect patient health data. Leidos will work to detect vulnerabilities and monitor critical assets within the Minot, North Dakota-based hospital’s infrastructure, Leidos said Thursday. “Leidos Health is pleased to provide managed security services for Trinity Health to help keep their […] More

  • Linda Gooden Joins General Motors Board of Directors; Tim Solso Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Linda Gooden Joins General Motors Board of Directors; Tim Solso Comments

    Linda Gooden, formerly an executive vice president at Lockheed Martin, has joined General Motors’ board of directors. Gooden served as president of Lockheed’s information technology division and oversaw integrated IT and cyber services for civil, defense, intelligence and other government clients, GM said Thursday. Tim Solso, GM chairman, said Gooden’s “background in the aerospace and defense industry provides […] More

  • Executive Profile: Kamal Narang, SRA Health Group VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Kamal Narang, SRA Health Group VP

    Kamal Narang serves as vice president for SRA International‘s health business unit and is responsible for overseeing the subsidiary’s work to deliver professional services and information technology products in the federal healthcare sector. Prior to his current role, Narang managed an SRA team of IT and bioinformatics professionals that provide program support at the U.S. […] More

  • Executive Profile: John Foley, DSA CFO and Treasurer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: John Foley, DSA CFO and Treasurer

    John Foley is the chief financial officer and corporate treasurer at DSA, an employee-owned company that offers information technology and consulting services to federal civilian and defense agencies. Prior to joining DSA in October 2009, he worked as a controller in Cigna‘s shared services organization and held various positions at Lockheed Martin for 13 years. […] More

  • VMware Platform Added to UK Govt Cloud Marketplace; Andy Tait Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware Platform Added to UK Govt Cloud Marketplace; Andy Tait Comments

    VMware will offer a hybrid cloud platform through a U.K. government procurement vehicle meant to help the country’s public sector organizations to acquire cloud computing services. The company holds a position on the G-Cloud 6 framework contract to supply its VCloud Air products to British customer agencies, VMware said Tuesday. VCloud Air is designed to […] More

  • Executive Profile: Stuart Ainsworth, BMC Software Federal CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Stuart Ainsworth, BMC Software Federal CTO

    Stuart Ainsworth serves as chief technology officer at BMC Software‘s federal business unit, where he is responsible for developing and implementing public sector technology strategies. Ainsworth joined the company in 1999 and holds more than two decades of information technology management, application development and consulting experience. He has led multiple service management support work for […] More

  • Booz Allen Rolls Out New Digital Workplace; Kevin Winter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Rolls Out New Digital Workplace; Kevin Winter Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton is deploying a new social intranet and digital workplace in an effort to meet future technology demand by staffer, Computerworld reported Monday. Tracy Mayor writes Kevin Winter, vice president and chief information officer at Booz Allen, has commissioned a three-tiered approach comprising an IT operations group, a strategic innovation group and a team […] More