CATEGORY ARCHIVES: NEWS

Government Leaders: Ashton Carter and Gen. Michael Moeller Headline GovCon News

ExecutiveGov covered a number of important news stories in the past week concerning the federal government. This release will look at two of the most important articles that were published, specifically the government executives that were focused on in the pieces. The first piece focused on plans by new Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter for...

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Tech News: Harris Corp. Provides Cancer Center with Health IT Offerings

This week, ExecutiveBiz published a story about Harris Corp. providing the Cancer center City of Hope with healthcare business intelligence dashboards. The dashboards are meant to enhance the hospital’s strategic plan and improve performance by allowing physicians, hospital management and coding professionals to identify room for improvement. Vishal Agrawal, Harris Healthcare Solutions...

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GovCon Wire Breaks News Of 25-Year Vet Kay Kapoor Joining AT&T

GovCon Wire, Executive Mosaic's website for real-time news on the government contracting sector, broke the news of 25-year industry veteran Kay Kapoor joining AT&T's government solutions unit as president on Thursday. Kapoor joins the telecommunications giant after previously serving as CEO of Accenture Federal Services, that company's federal business subsidiary, holding responsibility for...

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Business News: Northrop, SAIC, Rockwell Collins and AT&T Government Make Headlines

Executive Mosaic’s weekly round-up of news is a can’t-miss, digestible snapshot of the GovCon industry covering the biggest executive moves, mergers & acquisitions and contracts straight from the pen of one of GovCon’s most respected facilitators and sources of breaking news, Jim Garrettson. This week, the newsletter contained major executive moves at AT&T Government Solutions, Northrop...

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News of the Week: SAIC Keeping Name For Planned IT, Services Company; Stu Shea Comments

On Monday, SAIC announced that the enterprise information technology and technical services business will retain the SAIC name when the company splits. https://www.govconwire.com/2013/02/saic-keeping-name-for-planned-it-services-company-stu-shea-tony-moraco-comment/ The national security, health and engineering business will be named "Leidos" and will be led by John Jumper and Stu Shea. “It’s a...

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Spotlights: ExecutiveBiz Unveils Executive Q&A with Clay Hale, Siemens Government Technologies CFO

Executive spotlights are in-depth Q&A’s which ExecutiveBiz conducts with numerous chief and top-level executives in GovCon. https://executivebiz.com/ The intimate access afforded by these interviews provides insight as to how companies are acquiring new business, what the future holds and the personal side of corporate leaders. This past week, ExecutiveBiz published a spotlight with Clay...

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Government Leaders: Profile of Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Jon Davis

ExecutiveGov covered federal government focused news stories and published profiles of government executives this past week. One government official that was profiled on the website was Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, who currently serves as deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command. Prior to his current role, the 33-year military veteran served as commander of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing between...

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Tech Headlines: Mandiant Identifies Shanghai Tower as Chinese Cyber Attack Center

This week, The New New Internet published a story concerning the cyber threat coming from China. Mandiant, a U.S. computer security firm founded by Kevin Mandia, recently said in a study that cyber attacks on U.S. corporations, organizations and government agencies are largely coming from a 12-story tower in Shanghai that is home to a Chinese army unit. Mandia told the Times more than 90 percent...

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Business News: CACI International, ManTech, CSC and TWD Make Executive Appoinments

Executive Mosaic’s weekly round-up of news is a can’t-miss, digestible snapshot of the GovCon industry covering the biggest executive moves, mergers & acquisitions and contracts straight from the pen of one of GovCon’s most respected facilitators and sources of breaking news, Jim Garrettson. This week, the newsletter contained major executive moves at CACI International, ManTech, CSC and TWD...

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News of the Week: CSC Names Dan Hushon New CTO

At ManTech International Corp., Dan Hushon has been appointed as chief technology officer. Hushon was previously the chief technologist at EMC Corp. where he led big data, cloud technologies and next-generation infrastructure initiatives and held the same role for the service provider business. He also held the same position at Sun Microsystems and led the cloud service and global sales...

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Q&A Spotlight With Grant Thornton Executive Lou Crenshaw

Executive spotlights are in-depth Q&A’s which ExecutiveBiz conducts with numerous chief and top-level executives in GovCon. The intimate access afforded by these interviews provides insight as to how companies are acquiring new business, what the future holds and the personal side of corporate leaders. This past week, ExecutiveBiz published a spotlight with Lou Crenshaw, Grant Thornton...

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Biometrics and Mobility Make GovCon Headlines

The New New Internet published two stories this week related to biometrics and mobility. The website first looked at a new $3 million DoD contract with AOptix and CACI International to develop a biometric mobile device attachment that would permit soldiers in the field to record facial features and iris scans from long distances. According to the story, the biometry device will come as an...

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