Tag Archives: TechAmerica

David Logsdon, CompTIA‘s Space Enterprise Council senior director, has joined the Commerce Department‘s International Trade Advisory Committee on Aerospace Equipment and will serve through the committee’s four-year charter term. The ITAC on Aerospace Equipment works to provide advisory support to the secretary of commerce and the U.S. trade representative on market access, …

Information technology trade group CompTIA has recorded a 25 percent increase in membership across its public sector councils between the first quarters of 2015 and 2016. The rise in membership at CompTIA's Space Enterprise Council, State and Local Government and Education Council and Human Services Information Technology Advisory Group comes …

Peter Smith has held the position of president and CEO of American Systems since 2014 and serves on the company's board of directors. He joined American Systems in 1980 as a Systems EngineerProgram Manager and since then has held several key leadership roles such as chief operating officer, executive vice …

State and local governments are increasingly adopting cloud and implementing an IT shared services model due to its financial, technical and operational promises, says Kevin Irland, a corporate communications manager at Verizon Enterprise Solutions. Irland writes in a Tuesday blog post that a survey by Grant Thornton, TechAmerica and the National Association of State Chief Information …

Michael Spierto, a former staffer at a House Homeland Security subcommittee, will officially join TechAmerica as director of cybersecurity policy on April 14, Government Technology reported Friday. Brian Heaton writes that some of Spierto’s work on Capitol Hill has included policy discussions with stakeholders about the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure …

Peter Smith, chief operating officer at AMERICAN SYSTEMS, has been elected to join the public sector board of directors at TechAmerica. The more than three-decade industry veteran will provide counsel on technology strategies for the government IT contracting sector as a TechAmerica public sector board member, AMERICAN SYSTEMS said Monday. Members …

Sonya Cork, Verizon Enterprise Solutions vice president of public sector markets, has been appointed to the TechAmerica public sector board of directors, TechAmerica said Wednesday. The public sector board focuses on issues that are of the most importance to federal and state government contractors, according to TechAmerica. “Sonya brings an extensive background …

Stephanie C. Hill, vice president and general manager of the civil business within Lockheed Martin‘s Information Systems and Global Solutions line, has been selected to receive the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year award from the Career Communications Group. The group recognized Hill for her 27-year career in engineering and …

STG Inc. has joined TechAmerica, the Washington-based trade association that represents service providers in the fields of business intelligence and information technology. Private and public organizations, including nearly 50 federal agencies work with STG, a ISO 9001:2008-certified company that also holds an SEI CMMI Maturity Level 3 rating, TechAmerica said August …

TASC has joined U.S. technology trade association TechAmerica to participate in discussions and learning forums. The company’s nearly 5,000 professionals both hold advanced degrees and work in domains such as aviation systems, cloud architecture and engineering, modeling and simulation and space systems, TechAmerica said Thursday. “With fast-paced technological advances and …

Trade association TechAmerica has named Dennis Stolkey, senior vice president and general manager of the Americas for HP Enterprise Services, chairman of the association’s board of directors. TechAmerica said in a release he succeeds Peter Boni, CEO Emeritus of Safeguard Scientifics, who will remain on the board. “Dennis has been a …

A report from the TechAmerica Foundation's Federal Big Data Commission says big data can be defined through identifying four major characteristics, ZDNet reports. Leaders and commissioners came from companies including IBM, SAP, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, EMC, NetApp, Grant Thornton and Computer Sciences Corp., according to Andrew Brust’s …

GCE announced Monday it was named a finalist a finalist in the cloud computing/software as a service category for the 2012 TechAmerica Foundation American Technology Awards. The award was created in honor of Fred Termans, the father of the Silicon Valley. Ray Muslimani, founder and Chief Executive Officer of GCE …

CGI Group offered up recommendations and best practices for cloud computing at a TechAmerica Foundation event Thursday in Silicon Valley. CGI said that Aldona Valicenti, CGI vice president and SLG-CC commissioner, participated in a panel discussion at the event. TechAmerica also issued a guide to cloud computing at the event. …

VCE Chairman Michael Capellas spoke to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation earlier today outlining cloud computing opportunities and challenges within U.S. federal government, domestic public and commercial sectors, and international markets.  Capellas’ speech explored key barriers to cloud adoption and incorporated findings of the TechAmerica Commission on …