Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received two awards from the National Safety Council in recognition of the company’s safety performance at work. CTC earned the Perfect Record Award for completing the working hours between March 4, 2013, and December 12, 2014, the company said Monday. The company also won the Million Work Hours Award for achieving […] More

AtrocityWatch has licensed a social analytics technology from Mitre Corp. in an effort to help peacekeepers forecast humanitarian atrocities globally. Mitre said Wednesday the nonprofit organization intends to use the platform to detect early indicators of war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity. “We are honored to see MITRE’s vision and pioneering research in […] More

Dan Mennel, formerly managing director at KPMG, has been appointed as a partner to oversee Grant Thornton’s San Jose, California-based strategic federal tax services group. He has worked at companies in aerospace, manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors and dealt with issues concerning research and development tax credits, Grant Thornton said Tuesday. “Dan’s broad and deep knowledge […] More

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has handed this year’s CTC Award in Honor of Congressman John P. Murtha to business major Nathan C. Eltz to acknowledge the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown student’s work in civic leadership. Pitt-Johnstown President Jem Spectar bestowed the recognition at the college’s academic honors convocation last month, with CTC Senior Vice President and […] More

McKesson has named Bansi Nagji executive vice president of corporate strategy and business development and successor to Brian Tyler, who has taken the newly created role of president for North American pharmaceutical distribution and services. “Bansi brings strong international strategy experience to the McKesson executive team, along with deep innovation, leadership and marketing expertise,” John Hammergren, McKesson […] More

Jordin Cohen joined Noblis in January 2014 and serves as director for the homeland security and defense division within the company’s national security and intelligence mission business. His background includes work in areas such as cybersecurity, intelligence, critical infrastructure protection, homeland defense, counterterrorism, business administration. Prior to Noblis, Cohen directed technology risk programs at Deloitte […] More

David Silberstein, formerly a senior partner at Teradata‘s healthcare providers practice, has joined Leidos‘ health business as service line director for analytics. Leidos said Tuesday that Silberstein will work with colleagues, partners and clients to develop strategies that help hospitals leverage their data to bolster healthcare and business outcomes. “With significant experience in business development and […] More

Kevin Coleman, formerly chief strategist at Netscape and previously a management consultant at Deloitte, has called on organizations to form a cyber incident response team for on-demand action on data breaches. Coleman wrote in a commentary for Fedscoop senior executives within organizations must also begin to turn their focus on data breach response strategies in order to mitigate the costs […] More

Jennifer Felix serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Sotera Defense Solutions, where she oversees the company’s financial operations in strategic planning, accounting and financial processes and procedures. The 20-year GovCon and technology sector veteran joined the Herndon, Virginia-based data fusion and analytics, cyber networks and ISR contractor in September 2012 after she led Deltek through an initial public […] More

Chris Wolf serves as the vice president of contracts and procurement for the Louis Berger Group. The 30-year contracts veteran has experience in both federal and commercial markets with technology and professional services firms such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte and BAE Systems. Wolf served as deputy assistant director at the FBI after 9/11 and was responsible for overseeing the completion of theTrilogy TNC/IPC program, which the […] More

Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T‘s government solutions business, has received the Janice K. Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership Award from the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council. ACT-IAC said Monday the award is named after a civil servant who sought to bolster mentorship and relationships between industry and government and is the highest award given to members of the organization. […] More

An insider threat detection program must combine virtual and non-virtual measures to enable better monitoring of anomalous behavior across an enterprise, two Deloitte directors write in a Federal Times article. Janet Hale and Mike Gelles, respectively directors at Deloitte’s services and consulting businesses, believe that organizations also need to engage staff members to prevent such […] More