Hortonworks has made a series of leadership changes as part of a push to drive growth strategy and operational performance at the Santa Clara, California-based open data technology firm. Chief Financial Officer Scott Davidson has assumed additional duties as chief operating officer of Hortonworks, the company said Tuesday. He succeeds the departing president and COO Rajnish Verma […] More

The Northern Virginia Technology Council has unveiled the list of officers and members who were elected to the association’s board of directors for fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Maximus CEO Richard Montoni and Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of DXC Technology’s U.S. public sector, will respectively serve as chairman and vice chairman of NVTC […] More

Marilyn Crouther is senior vice president and general manager, U.S. Public Sector, at DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC). She is one of Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017 and an influential leader in the government contracting arena. Crouther played a pivotal role in the merger of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) into a new […] More

Frank Mong, former senior vice president of product, industry and solutions at Palo Alto Networks, has been appointed chief marketing officer at Santa Clara, California-based open data technology provider Hortonworks. Mong will oversee Hortonworks’ global marketing strategy to build on the company’s growth efforts, according to a May 22 press release. Raj Verma, president and chief operating officer of Hortonworks, said […] More

Robert Youngjohns, a senior adviser at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has joined Blueprint‘s board of directors. The Toronto, Canada-based software company said Thursday that Youngjohns brings experience in various leadership roles from his time leading the information technology industry. “Robert is a true pioneer and trailblazer in the world of software and I am very […] More

Raytheon has won a $15 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support high power electromagnetics transition efforts of the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Tuesday that the company will help the service branch analyze and integrate HPEM systems on multiple airborne platforms. Raytheon will use simulation tools to evaluate the performance of a proposed integrated platform in mission operations. The Air […] More

Microsoft and DXC Technology have teamed up to provide a new service offering designed to help clients manage workloads across the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform and DXC’s data centers. The DXC Services for Azure offering will work to help users facilitate hybrid and public cloud adoption as well as access Azure services in DXC’s […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. has announced plans to set up a new office in Adelaide, South Australia, after it received a seven-year contract to provide desktop computers, tablets, laptops and other digital devices as well as end-user computing services to government agencies in the state. CSC will make a $5 million investment to establish the new office in […] More

Tony Whigham, formerly director of the federal business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s Aruba Networks subsidiary, has joined Hitachi Data Systems as director of government sales in Australia and New Zealand. He will work to develop strategies for HDS’ federal and state government portfolio and  explore new areas of collaboration with the company’s social innovation solutions unit, Hitachi said Thursday. The […] More

BAE Systems plans invest up to $10 million over 10 years in a collaborative network that will work to facilitate development of technologies that can support the Australian military. BAE said Tuesday its Australian subsidiary partnered with the Universities of Adelaide and South Australia to establish the Joint Open Innovation Network with the goal to introduce university engineering scholarship, internship, job placement, defense-related courses […] More

Red Hat has secured Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 certifications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for its nine cryptographic modules associated with the company’s operating system. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 OS received nine FIPS certifications for modules that include OpenSSL, OpenSSH Server, OpenSSH Client, Libgcrypt, NSS, Libreswan, Kernel Cryptographic API, […] More

Intel has added Check Point, Huawei and Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s Aruba Networks subsidiary into an alliance wherein partner companies can integrate their technologies with Intel’s cybersecurity offerings. Check Point integrated its firewall products with Intel’s McAfee DXL and McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange to help customers scale and automate their security environments, Intel said Thursday. Aruba’s ClearPass has been combined […] More