Lisa Disbrow, former undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, and Mary Louise Krakauer, former executive vice president and chief information officer at Dell, have been appointed to the board of directors at Mercury Systems. The latest appointments bring the number of Mercury Systems’ board members to nine, including eight independent directors, the company said Thursday. Mark […] More

Pete Tseronis, founder and CEO of professional services company Dots and Bridges, has joined the advisory board of the Alliance for Transportation Innovation, GovCon Executive has learned. ATI21 is s a consortium of transportation industry professionals and researchers who aim to promote technology development and deployment within the sector. Tseronis is also an advisory board member […] More

A new report from the Technology CEO Council outlines ways the federal government could save approximately $1 trillion in the next decade through the implementation of modern technologies. The report titled “The Government We Need” has been shared with President Donald Trump’s team including Vice President Mike Pence and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, TCC said Jan. […] More

Persistence Market Research sees an expansive growth in the next generation data storage technology market by 2021 to cater to the amount of data collected from various technologies such as mobile phones, smart homes and wearable electronics. PMR said Tuesday Avago Technologies, Dell, Drobo, EMC, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, Hitachi Data Systems, HGST, IBM, Micron Technology, […] More

William Teuber, former vice chairman of EMC, has joined New York-based investment firm Bridge Growth Partners as senior operating principal. He became EMC’s vice chairman in May 2006 and stepped down from the post upon completion of the data storage vendor’s merger with Dell in September 2016, Bridge Growth Partners said. In his previous role, Teuber was responsible for strategy and business […] More

A new IDC report has highlighted the role system integrators play in helping the federal government transition to digital platforms through the 3rd platform technologies mobility, cloud, big data and analytics and social business. The report evaluates the system integrators’ relationship with each other and with the factors the report finds conducive to government digital […] More

Jason Kimrey is a 13-year veteran of Intel and serves as the chip maker’s U.S. federal area director, where he leads a business development team focused on technology products and services for defense and civilian agencies. Intel’s focus areas for federal agencies include high-performance computing as the company is partnering with the Energy Department and national laboratories to […] More

Technavio has forecasted that global defense information technology spending will reach $108.4 billion by 2020 as continued demand for IT and technology offerings in the defense industry drive the need for technological support services. The company said Friday the market will see a compound annual growth rate of at least three percent over the forecast period. IT investments will work […] More

An Australian government-owned company has awarded DigitalGlobe a follow-on contract to provide a geospatial content management platform for a mapping initiative that seeks to host information on more than 15 million buildings across Australia. PSMA Australia will implement DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform to generate geospatial content and location information for PSMA’s Geoscape continent-scale mapping product, DigitalGlobe said Wednesday. Shay Har-Noy, DigitalGlobe platform general manager, said Geoscape […] More

Many government contracting executives and federal agency leaders have publicly stated that rapid changes in technology are putting pressure on both the public and private sectors to keep pace with new tools as they enter market. Both contractors and agencies are also seeking to stay conscious of how innovative products might disrupt how they do business and […] More

CAMERON CHEHREH CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER DELL – FEDERAL BUSINESS Cameron Chehreh serves as chief technology officer at Dell’s federal business. Mr. Chehreh is an 18-year information technology veteran with business development, sales, market strategy and technology development experience. Prior to joining Dell, he spent five years at General Dynamics’ information technology business as CTO for […] More

Leidos has awarded $10,000 in cash prizes to the winners of an essay writing contest that focused on emerging and disruptive technologies. Sean Cate and Jesse Sloman took first place in the competition, U.S. Navy Commander Timothy McGeehan and retired Commander Douglas Wahl won second place and Navy Lt. (junior grade) Michael Haydell took third place, Leidos said […] More