(Jack London, recipient of the 2015 Wash100, is executive chairman of the board at CACI International) People are always the foundation of success for any organization. Therefore, recruiting and keeping top talent is one of the biggest challenges any leader has in maintaining the success and growth of their organization. How you define what your […] More

Greg Wenzel, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, is one of several company leaders for the firm’s organization focused on new ideas and concepts related to technology — the Strategic Innovation Group. In a January 2014 interview with ExecutiveBiz, Wenzel overviewed the firm’s push to help its public sector partners adopt an enterprise approach for C4ISR and apply data […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with the District of Columbia Public Schools for a new grant program aimed at increasing students’ access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The multiyear initiative offers D.C. public elementary, middle and high schools a chance to work with Project Lead The Way and implement STEM courses, Lockheed said Friday. […] More

A Lockheed Martin-led team has discovered new information on the sun’s atmosphere through NASA‘s Interface Region Imaging Spectograph as part of a mission to study energy transfer and the impact of solar atmospheric activity. “The results focus on a lot of things that have been puzzling for a long time and they also offer some complete surprises,” […] More

All network security strategies are centered on protecting sensitive data and the success of such a measure relies on organizations’ understanding of both internal and external interactions with the data, according to Francis Ofungwu of Unisys. Ofungwu, director of network security services at the company, writes in a post published Thursday that organizations must perform data discovery, data isolation and monitoring […] More

David Gormley, a director at CA Technologies‘ security business, pointed to identity and access management tools as ways to protect a company’s networks as it engages with customers via electronic channels, GovInfoSecurity reported Thursday. Gormley told the website that companies must balance customer service and security by continuing interactions with customers while ensuring customer-facing applications and services are secure. “There’s a real […] More

Companies should implement big data strategies to address challenges as they accumulate data with multiple attributes, relationships and sources, Adnan Khaleel writes for YarcData. Khaleel said Thursday the strategy should be based on the concept that big data is both the source and result of business decision-making as part of a cycle centered on data, analytics, information and strategy. This […] More

Genesys today announced that the Business Edition on the Genesys Customer Experience Platform was selected by Red Hat to help transform customer experience in the cloud while striving to provide reliability and high-performance hybrid cloud technologies to customers worldwide. Red Hat chose the platform on their capability to offer a fully-integrated cloud-based customer experience, evaluated […] More

  IBM has launched marketing campaigns to offer its Watson computing technology in the federal market with the goal of helping agencies manage health records, the Washington Post reported Monday. Mohana Ravindranath writes that IBM professionals went to Capitol Hill last year to demonstrate the computer’s potential clinical applications to lawmakers. The company also hopes […] More

ATK has demonstrated a booster avionics system the company built to centralize twin solid rockets for NASA’s Space Launch System. The technology has been integrated into hardware and software systems and was subjected to ground test systems and stress evaluations at ATK’s Clearfield, Utah-based lab, ATK said Thursday. “Stressing the system beyond what it will see […] More

IBM Corp. has been selected to develop and manage a unified road toll system in Norway for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. The AutoPASS Grindgut traffic management system will be designed to process millions of vehicles annually through big data and analytics as well as mobile technologies, IBM said Monday. Arne Norheim, country manager of […] More

More than 5,500 healthcare organizations worldwide use Avaya‘s communication and collaboration platforms to facilitate delivery of medical services to patients. Avaya spent more than $2.5 billion within the past six years to research and develop tools for hospitals to manage patient information, the company said Monday. Tara Mahoney, senior director for Avaya’s professional service healthcare […] More