The Professional Services Council re-elected several executives and appointed new members to its 2017 executive committee and board of directors during its annual meeting held Thursday. John Goodman, chief operating officer of Accenture’s federal services business; and Deb Alderson, president and CEO of Sotera Defense Solutions; were respectively re-elected as PSC’s chair and vice chair, […] More

Former Deloitte CEO Joseph Echevarria and Cheryl Krongard, a former senior partner at Apollo Management, have joined Xerox’s board of directors. The appointments will take effect Jan. 1 and bring the total number of the company’s board members to 11, Xerox said Monday. “Xerox will greatly benefit from Joe’s knowledge of international business and professional […] 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

In-Q-Tel has entered into a strategic investment and technology development agreement with Zoomdata as the companies seek to help address the intelligence community’s big data management requirements with the latter’s visual analytics platform. The agreement comes a month after Zoomdata began to offer its technology to the IC via an Amazon Web Services-hosted marketplace of software products and developers […] More

The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners of the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” HHS said Monday winning papers were selected based on criteria that included proposed systems and recommendations for market viability, capacity to inform and foster transformative change, creativity […] More

Roger Mason Jr., senior vice president of national security and intelligence at Noblis, and MedinAnalytics founder Carmen Medina have joined the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation as members of the board of directors. Mason and Medina will join the other 25 members of USGIF’s board and will serve a three-year term, USGIF said Thursday. Mason, who also serves […] More

Kelly Bissell, former Deloitte cyber risk services lead for Europe, Middle East and Africa, has joined Accenture as global managing director of the latter firm’s Accenture Security subsidiary. Accenture said Monday Bissell, who was hired in June, holds 25 years of security industry experience in breach incident response, identity management, privacy and data protection, secure software development and cyber risk […] More

Kay Kapoor, president of government solutions business at AT&T, has been included in FedScoop’s list of D.C.’s Top 50 Women in Technology for 2016 in recognition of her work in the federal information technology sector, FedScoop reported Thursday. Kapoor told FedScoop in an interview that women should pursue a career in the field of science, […] More

Peter Simpson, a 20-year information technology veteran, has returned to Datawatch as vice president of visualization strategy at the Bedford, Massachusetts-based visual analytics company. He will oversee the company’s efforts to grow its visual data discovery business and capital market footprint in his new position, Datawatch said Wednesday. “Peter’s in-depth knowledge of our visualization software, as well […] More

Vishal Chawla, a nearly 12-year veteran of Deloitte, has been appointed managing principal of the cyber risk advisory services practice at Grant Thornton. Grant Thornton said Thursday that Chawla will be based at a company office in McLean, Virginia, and work with clients across the U.S. “Cybersecurity threats are growing, the industry is ever-changing, and Vishal joins […] More

AT&T has partnered with seven other technology companies to produce a smart-city development framework intended to help local government organizations to harness  Internet of Things platforms for management of their cities. Cisco, Deloitte, General Electric, IBM, Intel, Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies have agreed to support AT&T’s strategy to help create more connected  communities, AT&T said Tuesday. […] More

A new ongoing study by the Professional Services Council will focus on the emerging roles and responsibilities of chief technology officers at federal agencies, particularly in agency efforts to drive innovation. PSC said Monday its innovation committee co-chairs Robin Lineberger of Deloitte and Casey Coleman of Unisys will lead the study. “The results of this study will further our collective understanding […] More