Diane Gongaware serves as senior director of the U.S. public sector partner organization at Cisco, where she manages the company’s collaboration with other technology providers to the sector. She leads the organization that works with channel partners to build cloud computing, mobility, collaboration and data center platforms for federal, state, local government and education institutions. […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Radware to share cybersecurity best practices and collaborate on cyber-related pilot programs and experiments as part of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. The companies said Monday the alliance aims to facilitate the delivery of threat detectors and other cyber measures for customers through partnerships with technology providers. “The addition of Radware could not have come […] More

Big data companies have forged an open data platform initiative that aims to further the development of big data technologies based on the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. The alliance comprises GE, Hortonworks, IBM, Infosys, Pivotal, SAS, Altiscale, Capgemini, CenturyLink, EMC, Splunk, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Teradata and VMware, Pivotal said Tuesday. The companies will collaborate to develop and implement […] More

Rod Volz serves as Vice President of Client Services, Deputy COO at Solutions By Design, an IT management support services company. His 27 years of professional services experience includes leadership roles in profit and loss management, business development and program management. Formerly Volz was the founder and managing principal at FutureBridge, a Virginia-based information technology and […] More

Stephen Kovac, a 23-year information technology veteran, serves as executive vice president for strategy and business development at Vazata‘s public sector business. He has responsibility for the development of procurement strategies and product roadmaps in the federal, state and local government and education markets. Prior to Vazata, he served as senior VP of sales and […] More

Leidos will donate $100 to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation for every blocked shot during the Washington Wizards’ Defending the Rim program. Roger Krone, Leidos CEO, said Tuesday the company supports “military veterans, troops and their families through several organizations, including the USO (United Service Organizations) and Special Operations Warrior Foundation.” Leidos will also host […] More

Mariano Alicea Jr. serves as vice president for strategy and business development at Exelis, a role he has held since October 2014. Previously, Alicea was senior VP of corporate development at Sabre Systems and held responsibility over the company’s diversification, marketing and partnering strategies in the government and commercial sectors. He also oversaw business development […] More

The Northern Virginia Technology Council will auction off regional and industry c-level executives in a fundraising event scheduled on Feb. 4. Attendees will bid electronically for a chance with c-level executives within 12 months and gain insights, forge business connections and learn about future plans of various companies, the NVTC said. The NVTC CXO Auction event […] More

John Hinshaw, executive vice president for technology and operations at Hewlett Packard, has been named an independent director of the board of directors at DocuSign. “John not only brings deep expertise in cloud, security and mobility, but he is a customer-focused operational leader who leverages technology to drive innovation and transformation,” Keith Krach, DocuSign chairman […] More

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

Wray Varley serves as area vice president of advanced programs for the departments of Homeland Security and Justice at CenturyLink’s federal government industry. In this role, he directs a sales team that focuses on CenturyLink’s national security-related contracts. Prior to this role, Varley had sales and business development responsibility for all civilian government agencies such as the departments of Energy […] More

Push-to-talk technology firm Kodiak Networks has selected Razorsight‘s cloud analytics platform to help PTT service providers gain insight into customer behavior and improve user experience. Razorsight said Monday it will provide its Executive Insights and Real-Time Predictive Analytics technology to Kodiak Networks with the goal of helping that company’s mobile operator clients redurn churn rate […] More