Chief information security officers from 26 companies, universities and government agencies have discussed the challenges they faced in 2015 and shared their forecast on cybersecurity-related issues for 2016, Security Current reported Dec. 20. Bret Arsenault, CISO at Microsoft, told Security Current that commercial enterprises should focus on how to improve their current systems that work […] More

PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal systems business, has received FedScoop’s Industry Leadership award in recognition of his work in the field of federal information technology, FedScoop reported Friday. FedScoop founder and CEO Goldy Kamali presented the awards in nine categories to 50 industry and government leaders in the federal IT sector during an awards ceremony held Thursday at […] More

Verizon has launched a networking service to help federal agencies and other public sector organizations link and manage their workloads across cloud computing platforms and data centers. The Secure Cloud Interconnect works to provide users a private Internet connection in order to access information and applications stored in data centers and private, public and hybrid cloud platforms, Verizon said Wednesday. […] More

Rick Wagner joined ManTech International in June to lead the Fairfax, Va.-based company’s advanced technical solutions business unit as senior vice president and general manager. The more-than two-decade GovCon veteran oversees an organization that collaborates with U.S. intelligence agencies on enterprise information technology initiatives and emerging tools such as cloud computing, analytics and big data. ExecutiveBiz […] More

The Northern Virginia Technology Council has announced the roster of its board of directors for the trade association’s 2015-16 fiscal year. NVTC also announced Tuesday the election of 27 new and returning board members, and 16 three-year-term members to the board. Officers of the board of directors include: Chair: Todd Stottlemyer, CEO of Inova Center for […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has given provisional authorization to 23 commercial cloud service offerings for the hosting of Defense Department data at Impact Level 2, which covers noncontrolled unclassified information. DISA said Monday the offerings comply with the moderate baseline of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). “The granting of these provisional authorizations is an important […] More

UMT360 and Project Hosts have partnered to bring the former’s enterprise portfolio management services — which integrate with Microsoft‘s Project Online and Project Server software – to government agencies via the latter’s FedRAMP-compliant cloud. UMT360 said Wednesday its EPM cloud service works to support business and financial decision-making. “[It’s] even easier than ever for finance, IT and PMO leaders within […] More

Ellen Glover, an executive vice president at ICF International, has been reappointed chairwoman of the board of directors of the Professional Services Council. John Goodman, chief operating officer of Accenture Federal Services, and Kathleen Flanagan, president and CEO of Abt Associates, were respectively re-elected as vice chair and secretary, PSC said Thursday. Twelve executives from […] 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

Mercedes Westcott serves as vice president of public sector at Cloudera and also is a member of the federal advisory board at Threatstream. Prior to Cloudera, Westcott was vice president of public sector at Delphix. Westcott is also a former vice president at HP Enterprise Security Software, which she joined through HP’s acquisition of ArcSight, where she was director of […] More

Tarik Reyes oversees program delivery, strategy and execution in his role as operating unit director for civil information solutions at Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector. Prior to this role, Reyes held a business development leadership role for Northrop’s civil federal and select defense markets and his career also includes stops at Microsoft, Visalign and Bechtel. In this […] More

Ed Morche leads Level 3 Communications‘ government markets group as its senior vice president and general manager, leading all functional activities in support of the firm’s civilian, defense, intelligence and other customers. In that role, the more-than-20-year telecommunications veteran also sets strategic direction for the firm’s capture strategy for government contracts. Morche recently caught up […] More