Dave McClure made the jump from the public sector to business earlier this year when he joined cybersecurity firm Veris Group as chief strategist. McClure brings more than two decades of federal service to his role and retired from government in the spring as head of the General Services Administration‘s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies. […] More

Colleen Davis is vice president of finance for the U.S. public sector business at HP Enterprise Services, where she leads work to plan and direct financial and accounting activities for that business unit. Davis also services on the financial leadership team at HP Enterprise Services. Prior to her current role, she served as HP’s finance leader of the […] More

Dan Dougherty has led EMC‘s work in the federal market for close to four years in his role as vice president of the data storage and technology provider’s federal division. His more than two-decade career at the company has included service as a VP for the company’s APJ sales strategy and as an area sales […] More

Bradley Feldmann elevated to the chief executive post at San Diego-based defense and transportation contractor at Cubic Corp. during the summer after a two-month transition period that saw him succeed William “Bill” Boyle. Feldmann first worked at the company between 1989 and 1999, then returned to Cubic in 2008 and has since led the defense systems segment and […] More

Battelle has contracted Astrotech subsidiary 1st Detect Corp. to develop portable mass spectrometers for the U.S. military next-generation chemical detector program. The collaboration will rely on Batelle’s experience in biological and chemical defense tools and 1st Detect’s miniaturization technology to come up with a prototype multisample identifier, Astrotech said Thursday. Thomas B. Pickens III, chairman and […] More

IBM looks to team up with more than 100 startup businesses in India in a move to grow innovation programs for big data analytics and Internet of Things in the country, The Economic Times reported Wednesday. Peerzada Abrar writes IBM’s Bangalore-based innovation center will offer mentoring, software, hardware, technical support, marketing and sales facilities to startup companies. The […] More

General Dynamics‘ Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions unit has announced new updates to a security analytics platform designed to help enterprises detect and mitigate any malicious activity on computer networks. XPS Collector works to automatically correlate threat intelligence with network metadata to reduce the time it takes for security analysts to find a threat and take action against it, […] More

Darryl Shaw, director of healthcare solutions and new product development at Verizon Enterprise, says his company is seeing higher rates adoption of cloud services for healthcare delivery among customers. Carlos Arcila, external communications manager for Verizon Enterprise, wrote Thursday that chief information officers are moving to migrate their services to cloud environments in order to fulfill Health Insurance Portability […] More

Cisco and Red Hat have introduced a new suite of integrated infrastructure service to deploy cloud environments for customers. Padmasree Warrior, chief technology and strategy officer at Cisco, said Thursday that the companies are also “expanding their relationship and accelerating collaboration around OpenStack, Application Centric Infrastructure and Intercloud.” Cisco’s UCS integrated infrastructure services work to streamline OpenStack-based private cloud operations for customers […] More

Sameer Bhalotra and Chris Petersen will discuss the impacts of emerging cyber threats on critical infrastructure and commercial systems at a webinar on Sept. 9. Sameer Bhalotra, former senior director for cybersecurity at the White House, and Chris Petersen, chief technology officer and a co-founder of LogRhythm, will also talk about integrating threat intelligence into security analytics to bolster […] More

Raytheon and the U.S. Army have demonstrated the features of the Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative missile during a Black Dart military exercise, where the missile intercepted an unmanned aerial system and a cruise missile. The company said Thursday the AI3 missile features a “semi-active” seeker and radar system to detect targets and will be used to support the Army’s Indirect Fire Protection Capability Block […] More

IBM Corp. has moved to expand the cognitive offerings of its Watson supercomputer by partnering with Baylor College of Medicine, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi and New York Genome Center on several big data research projects. Researchers will work to accelerate discoveries, test hypotheses and draw conclusions by using IBM’s Watson Discovery Advisor tool, IBM said Thursday. […] More