Matthew Oostveen, formerly director of research at IDC Australia, has joined VCE as chief technology officer for the company’s operations in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan. He spent six years in his role at IDC Australia and oversaw research in the firm’s telecommunications, software, verticals and infrastructure divisions, VCE announced Tuesday. “Asia Pacific and Japan is an exciting region […] More

Businesses should pay more attention to customer needs in a highly competitive climate, according to Andrew MacDonald, director of service design at Serco. MacDonald says in a white paper that self-service technology could push enterprises to seek out data analysis technology in order to get a better understanding of consumer behavior and decision-making. Knowing what a […] More

Amtrak will start running a Siemens-made electric locomotive on the operator’s inter-city passenger rail lines beginning on Friday. Siemens and Amtrak executives celebrated the locomotive’s debut at a ceremony held Thursday on the 30th Street Amtrak station in Philadelphia, Siemens said Thursday. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx attended the unveiling. […] More

Deborah Doyle McWhinney, former CEO of CitiGroup‘s global enterprise payments business, has joined Fluor Corp.’s board of directors, Fluor said Thursday. Prior to Citi, McWhinney was president of Schwab Institutional, a division of Charles Schwab, Inc. where she was responsible for the global risk committee. “The perspectives we will gain from her experience in banking, finance and government […] More

Twenty-six high school teams and two middle school teams from 14 U.S. states and one Canadian province will participate in the March 28 national finals of the CyberPatriot VI competition, sponsored by Northrop Grumman. This year’s finals will be the first time in the competition’s six-year history that middle school teams were included and they will […] More

The Verizon Foundation is investing $100 million in cash and in-kind contributions over the next three years in programs to promote science, technology, engineering and math for students and teachers. Verizon’s planned STEM programs are intended to bolster professional development for teachers on how to use technology to help students achieve STEM careers,the company said […] More

James Urry, partner at Augusta Columbia Capital Group, has been appointed a non-executive director and member of the nominating committee at Kofax. Effective February 3, Urry will be the tenth member of the board for the smart process applications company. “Jamie brings to the Kofax board a deep understanding of capital markets and wealth of […] More

Click here to view the full list of GovCon and Government Leaders inducted into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 in 2013. The 2013 GovCon market saw a historic period of turmoil, uncertainty and change that will impact GovCon firms, the federal government and U.S. citizens for years. As the Asia pivot took hold, next-gen technologies grew up […] More

Lou Von Thaer started a new chapter of his three-decade GovCon career in June 2013 as president of a business once part of Science Applications International Corp. that eventually became Leidos‘ national security sector. Von Thaer now leads a team of 13,000 professionals in the sector after previously leading 7,000 employees at General Dynamics Advanced […] More

Microsoft Corp. has joined Facebook Inc.’s cloud initiative which aims to develop and share data center infrastructure designs, The Next Web reported Tuesday. Citing a Microsoft blog article, Kaylene Hong writes the software company intends to contribute its cloud server specification for data center hardware to the Open Compute Project. Bill Laing, Microsoft’s corporate vice […] More

SAP AG and Atos are collaborating with the European Union to develop standards for cloud services in an effort to help protect personal data of citizens, Bloomberg reported Monday. Cornelius Rahn writes the two companies and European governments will work on guidelines for screening Web programs and data storage technologies. Jim Hagemann Snabe, SAP co-CEO, said […] More

Stability operations contractor Sterling Global Operations (SGO) recently executed the site work of a two-year project funded by the United Arab Emirates that helped locate and destroy more than 11,000 unexploded bombs left over from wars in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The United Nations Mine Action Service administered the project in Kandahar, which borders Pakistan for […] More