IDC‘s Government Insights segment has released a new report on its evaluation of 12 cloud infrastructure-as-a-service vendors in the federal marketplace against set of weighted parameters for both short-term and long-term deployments. The research firm said Friday that the “IDC MarketScape: U.S. Government Private Cloud IaaS 2014 Vendor Assessment” report used pricing, scalability, compute services, value-added services and a single […] More

Ray Harris is chief information officer at Iron Bow Technologies and brings more than 20 years of enterprise technology, management and cybersecurity experience to the role. He has led the company’s efforts to build an enterprise resource planning system and a central database for managing business functions and performance across the organization. Harris also implemented […] More

Luis Ambroggio serves as vice president of contracts and compliance at International SOS Government Services, where he oversees the compliance of the company’s subcontractors and performance on government service contracts. Ambroggio also is responsible for functions related to contract administration, internal audit and internal policy for government projects such as the TRICARE overseas program. He previously served as director of subcontracts compliance for Computer […] More

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has appointed executives from TASC, Noblis, CSC and PwC to its board of directors and executives from Boeing, The Carib Group and Northrop Grumman to its board of advisers. INSA said Friday it named TASC CEO John Hynes and PwC Partner Peter Seegers directors after their terms as advisers have expired, while the three new […] More

Siki Giunta, senior vice president for global cloud business at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said the company aims to be a top provider of cloud computing products and services in the international market, Fortune magazine reported Thursday. “We want to be a global player,” Giunta told the magazine. Katherine Noyes writes Giunta is responsible for helping […] More

Kurt Tripp serves as vice president and manager of Parsons‘ defense and security sector within the government services segment and holds responsibility over the sector’s growth strategies. Tripp previously served as program executive for the air and missile defense programs within Parsons‘ defense and security sector and, prior to that, as program executive for Parsons’ security and mission-support training business. He joined Parsons in […] More

Bernadette Wightman, a 15-year Cisco veteran, has been named president of the company’s business operations in Canada. She will succeed Nitin Kawale, who will retire after 19 years of service at the company, Cisco said Friday. “We thank Nitin for his leadership and congratulate Bernadette as she takes over the reins and brings her perspective to this high-performing team,” said Alison […] More

Brigadier General (ret) Ron Yaggi serves as the senior vice president of IO government programs. He has more than 25 years experience in running large organizations, including large profit and loss operations, strategic planning and business development/capture involving intelligence and cyber operations; program management,foreign military sales and national security strategy in the Defense Department, consultation […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency will begin the process for awarding contracts under the third-generation ENCORE information technology services vehicle in fiscal 2015, Deltek‘s Alex Rossino reported Tuesday. Rossino, a Deltek principal research analyst, estimates that defense agencies invested approximately $5.8 billion in IT offerings through the second ENCORE iteration. His analysis of the ENCORE […] More

Deltek‘s Alex Rossino has outlined his analysis of the U.S. Army‘s spending on the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 2 – Services vehicle in an effort to help vendors prepare for the upcoming ITES-3S iteration in fiscal year 2015. “ITES-3S is expected to be even more heavily utilized than its predecessor due to the Army’s desire to push more of its IT acquisition […] More

SANS has released the results of a new survey that highlights the challenges organizations are facing as they move to adopt critical security controls. The report shows that 63 percent of organizations cited insufficient staffing as barriers to their CSC transition, 54 percent attributed it to budget scarcity and 36 percent pointed to operational and security gaps, SANS said Wednesday. “Organizations across […] More

Liz Benison, former a regional vice president and general manager at Computer Science Corp., will join Serco Group as CEO of the latter company’s local and regional government division in the U.K. and Europe. She will start in the role on Sept. 1 and oversee an organization that provides professional and management support work to […] More