Steven Griffin, formerly senior director of operations and business development within Chicago Bridge and Iron’s federal services division, has joined Vencore as a senior vice president and program manager. Vencore said Tuesday Griffin will lead the company’s work to help NASA develop technologies and systems the agency will use to process space launch vehicles, spacecraft and payloads on the […] More

An upcoming Red Hat symposium on government information technology will feature speakers from 13 government agencies who will discuss the impact of open source software on the sector. Red Hat said Thursday its Nov. 10 Government Symposium will focus on how open source software can address government IT challenges in agility, flexibility and collaboration. “The way government IT operates is evolving rapidly, […] More

Texas-based National Instruments will provide measurement and control systems hardware and system design software to NASA under a potential five-year, $37.7 million contract. NASA said Thursday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a one-year base period and runs through Sept. 27, 2020. The enterprise license management team at the NASA Shared Services Center administered the contract, the space agency added. NSSC […] More

A new Research and Markets report projects the unified communication-as-a-service market to reach $24.88 billion by 2020 from $15.12 billion in 2015. The report noted a growing adoption of UCaaS in retail industry vertical due to the consumer goods and retailers’ increasing need for business communication process as they transform into large enterprises, Research and […] More

The SAP National Security Services training program for veterans is moving forward to its fourth session with an analytics-focused curriculum in response to feedback from prospective employers, FCW reported Thursday. Sean Lyngaas writes that the NS2 Serves-run program has shifted from enterprise resource planning courses to analytics in efforts to meet the growing demand for analytical skills. […] More

MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that forecasts the analytics-as-a-service market to grow 40.3 percent year-over-year to $23.03 billion by 2020 from $4.23 billion in 2015, driven by low total cost of ownership and scalability. The report notes a growing adoption of analytics-as-a-service among large, small and medium businesses worldwide due to the increase in […] More

Tina Dolph started another chapter of her 20-year GovCon market career in January when she joined ASRC Federal as president of the Beltsville, Md.-based company’s information and technical solutions operating group. In prior executive roles at PAE, Dolph led efforts to integrate Computer Sciences Corp.’s applied technology division after PAE purchased that organization in 2013. Dolph recently spoke to ExecutiveBiz for an in-depth […] More

The Northern Virginia Technology Council has announced the roster of its board of directors for the trade association’s 2015-16 fiscal year. NVTC also announced Tuesday the election of 27 new and returning board members, and 16 three-year-term members to the board. Officers of the board of directors include: Chair: Todd Stottlemyer, CEO of Inova Center for […] More

Jill Bruning is an executive vice president at AECOM and general manager of the company’s Intelligence Community business unit, which was formed following the acquisition of URS in 2014. She joined AECOM from URS and worked on the integrated IC unit’s transition phases, organizational strategy and business architecture. She is also a member of AECOM’s […] More

Chris Sullivan serves as senior vice president and chief information officer at Serco Inc., where he is responsible for the information technology department. Sullivan leads the implementation of IT governance framework, operating model and information security plan at the British contractor’s North American subsidiary. He previously served as CIO for the North American public sector at […] More

A MarketsandMarkets study reports that the cybersecurity market will reach a value of $170.2 billion by 2020 due to the continued evolution of cyber threats and the corresponding increase in strictness of government cyber regulations. The company said Wednesday the market will grow from $106.3 billion in 2015 at a five-year compound annual growth rate of 9.8 percent, with […] More

Eight companies with headquarters in Fairfax County, Va. — including four government contractors – have been cited on Fortune magazine’s “Fortune 500” list for 2015. Based on 2014 revenues, the GovCon firms named to the magazine’s list are General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Computer Sciences Corp., and Booz Allen Hamilton, the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority said Thursday. Gerald L. […] More