Mitch Murphy, a former master chief petty officer and cryptologic language analyst at the U.S. Navy, has been named director of business development at Herndon, Virginia-based information technology provider NetCentrics. He has more than 35 years of military intelligence and industry experience and will lead NetCentrics’ BD initiatives to grow its cybersecurity market footprint, the […] More

Lance Spencer, client executive vice president of Defense for AT&T, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about his near-decade of experience with the company as well as his career history overseeing the evolution of the cybersecurity space and the intelligence community. In addition, Spencer also discussed the work that AT&T is doing toward 5G capabilities and the experimentation of […] More

Shawn Smith, a more than 25-year industry veteran, has been named vice president of business development at Arlington, Virginia-based professional services provider Evoke Consulting. He will oversee Evoke’s organic growth and strategic initiatives at all stages of the business development life cycle, the company said Monday. Smith started his industry career at Texas Instruments as […] More

Technology research company Gartner predicts that 20 percent of large enterprises will use digital currencies by 2024 for payments, collateral or stored value. “Increasing mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrencies on traditional payment platforms and the rise of central bank digital currencies will push many large enterprises to incorporate digital currencies into their applications in the coming […] More

FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said the separation of FireEye’s products business from Mandiant Solutions through the sale of the former will allow Mandiant to scale its software-as-a-service offering – Mandiant Advantage – to deliver cyber intelligence, automated defense, security validation and related services, The Washington Business Journal reported Friday. On June 2, a Symphony Technology […] More

Darin Stolte, former vice president of service delivery at Knight Point Systems, has been named chief operating officer of Gaithersburg, Md.-based government services provider DecisionPoint | Cortek. He brings nearly three decades of GovCon industry experience to his new position, DecisionPoint | Cortek said Thursday.

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Keith Johnson, vice president and general manager for federal at cloud and data analytics firm Spire Global, has said that the company received Department of Defense funding to develop an automated shipping route identification system.

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Steve Foley, former federal director at Cohesity, has been named vice president of public sector sales at EnterpriseDB, G2Xchange ETC reported Monday.

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The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council has awarded a team of Intel, Leidos and First Genesis with the 2019 Audience Choice Award in recognition of their collaborative work on a blockchain-based approach to sharing data across electronic record management systems.

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Crunchy Data and ORock Technologies have partnered to offer a database-as-a-service platform by integrating the former's open source database with the latter's managed offering designed to support deployment of containers in multicloud or hybrid computing environments.

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Clearwater Compliance, Ferris State University, the University of Texas at Austin and Kennesaw State University have partnered to develop programs that will help students secure skills in information infrastructure security.

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Kurt Small, formerly president of government markets at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, has been appointed to lead healthcare firm Anthem’s federal government solutions business, FedHealthIT reported Friday.

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