Morgan County in Ohio has selected Oracle to deploy its communication service for the  9-1-1 emergency system with the goal of helping the local government secure its Internet protocol-based infrastructure. Morgan County implemented the Oracle communications session border controller to protect the 9-1-1 service against denial-of-service attacks, service overloads and failures, Oracle said Monday. Steve Aulds, vice president of […] More

A fresh Research and Markets report forecasts that demand for cloud-based security services will propel the global aviation cybersecurity market to a compound annual growth rate of 5.94 percent from 2014 through 2019. Research and Markets said Friday end-users are turning to cloud-based security services due to ease of management. “Cyber threats are a major concern […] More

Govini‘s latest Federal Scorecard report points to a “highly competitive” government contracting space in 2014 with the Commerce Department leading in agency spending percentage increase and Lockheed Martin ahead in captured contract revenue. “The annual scorecard gives the market an opportunity to look at federal spending from a macro level and, through analytics, explain the trends that […] More

Kris Hekking assumed his current role as division chief financial officer for Dell‘s federal government solutions business in 2013. He is a certified public accountant with two decades of experience in mergers and acquisitions, GovCon compliance, financial systems implementation, public accounting, SOX/internal controls, and financial planning, modeling and assessment. Prior to Dell, Hekking was director of accounting and […] More

Raytheon has been awarded a 27-month, $15.5 million contract to develop an open architecture for the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. The company will produce application-based systems for airborne commercial-off-the-shelf computing, services-oriented architecture and infrastructure, and software-based mission applications, Raytheon said Feb. 17. “The goal is to use readily available technology to quickly upgrade […] More

As president and CEO of Vencore, Mac Curtis oversees more than 2,000 people that provide systems engineering and integration services to the public and private sectors. Curtis joined the Vertias Capital-owned company in 2013 — when it was known as The SI Organization — after time as an operating executive for the private equity firm. The 25-year GovCon senior […] More

Scott Price is the general manager of Microsoft‘s national security group and is in charge of the company’s productivity and collaboration offerings to federal clients such as the departments of Homeland Security, Energy and Justice. He previously worked at General Dynamics‘ information technology business as vice president and general manager of that unit’s homeland security solutions sector. At General Dynamics, Price oversaw programs with […] More

David Fastabend serves as vice president of advanced information systems at Exelis and leads an organization that works on new products for customers in the defense and intelligence, air traffic management, space, earth science and homeland defense markets. Fastabend joined the company in January 2011 and has also served as Exelis’ director of strategic planning and technology development. […] More

Stephen Brobst, chief technology officer of Teradata, has been named by ExecRank to the publication’s list of its top five CTOs in the U.S. for 2014 out of more than 2,500 screened CTOs. His rank rose from 14th in 2012 to the current rank of fourth, the company said Monday. “We are extremely impressed with the continuing achievements […] More

Deltek‘s Alex Rossino has outlined his analysis of the U.S. Army‘s spending on the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 2 – Services vehicle in an effort to help vendors prepare for the upcoming ITES-3S iteration in fiscal year 2015. “ITES-3S is expected to be even more heavily utilized than its predecessor due to the Army’s desire to push more of its IT acquisition […] More

Commercial and government efforts are underway to build unmanned and autonomous underwater vehicles that can be used for naval warfare, environmental research and recovery mission, National Defense Magazine reports. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes that Michael Toscano, president and CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, believes that UUV technology has limitless applications and will […] More

U.S. contractors’ investments in overseas markets and other business segments this year should help offset the impact of weak domestic orders and defense spending limits, The Washington Post reported Monday. Amrita Jayakumar writes that General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grummanposted stronger profits in the companies’ earnings reports for the first quarter of 2014 but […] More