ANGELINE G. CHEN VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL & CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER SIEMENS GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Angeline G. Chen currently serves as Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Siemens Government Technologies, Inc. In this senior management role, Ms. Chen is responsible for all legal, contracting and compliance issues. In addition, she serves as […] More

The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has amended a previously awarded contract option to Cytori Therapeutics to fund continued development and investigation of the company’s burn wound treatment. Cytori said Monday BARDA increased the option’s value by $2.5 million to approximately $16.6 million and supplemental funds from the amended contract will support activities necessary […] More

Jeremy Burton, chief marketing officer of Dell Technologies, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the company’s goal is to serve as a partner and a catalyst for enterprise customers that aim to transform their information technology functions. Dell Technologies formed as a result of the merger between Dell and EMC. Burton said the company seeks to help enterprise clients […] More

(Keith Salisbury, vice president for U.S. federal sales at Pivotal, shares his insights about the changing nature of software and how industry works with public sector agencies to build modern software similar to Silicon Valley’s most-admired Internet companies with the goal of transformation in government.) The dominant cloud trend we are seeing now contains vastly similar conditions in […] More

James Reagan, chief financial officer at Leidos, has said the Reston, Virginia-based company plans to submit a bid for a contract to provide logistics support to the U.S. Special Operations Command, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. James Bach writes the potential contract could be part of what an analyst at Credit Suisse’s recent Industrials Conference described […] More

IBM has teamed up with the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center to facilitate the sharing of cyber threat data between industries and organizations. IBM will provide access to the company’s X-Force Exchange cyber threat research and analysis to FS-ISAC members, IBM said Monday. The company will also work to integrate the Soltra Edge threat […] More

A new Frost & Sullivan analysis says that worldwide connectivity, urbanization and digital convergence of information technology systems are likely to spur the demand for Internet of Things and cloud-based platforms in smart buildings. Anirudh Bhaskaran, energy and environmental research analyst at Frost & Sullivan, said Tuesday data generated by interconnected devices from different building […] More

Big data companies have forged an open data platform initiative that aims to further the development of big data technologies based on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The alliance comprises GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, Pivotal, SAS, Altiscale, Capgemini, CenturyLink, EMC, Splunk, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Teradata and VMware, Pivotal said Tuesday. The companies will collaborate to develop and implement […] More

Carahsoft Technology has added the security products and services of RSA, the security division of EMC, to its General Services Administration schedule. Carahsoft serves as the distributor of RSA’s software, hardware and services to the public sector market through the DHS-GSA Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program under the agreement, Carahsoft said Thursday. RSA’s anti-fraud, identity, governance, risk and […] More

Fulcrum is a finalist in SmartCEO magazine’s awards program that recognizes companies that work to deliver technology products and support services to the federal government. The company said Wednesday it was nominated for the 2014 GOVstar Award in the star performer category and will be featured in an upcoming SmartCEO publication. “We are proud to […] More

EMC has unveiled the first EMC Federation suite that works to deliver an automated, virtual data center as a service, accelerate time-to-deployment of applications and support orchestration workflows. The company said Thursday the Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution is the first of five offerings under EMC Federation, which comprises EMC II, VMware, RSA and Pivotal. Ray O’Farrell, corporate senior vice […] More

Gregory Gernhardt, who formerly led an engine program for the Airbus A320, has been promoted to lead the commercial engines area at Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies. In his new role, Gernhardt will will be responsible for all commercial Engines program management, sales and marketing activities, United Technologies said Thursday. “For the past five […] More