Carlos Fernandes joined Salient Federal Solutions in January to serve as director of its Cyber Security Center of Excellence and develop and implement the Fairfax, Va.-based IT, training and engineering services contractor’s cybersecurity strategy. The former U.S. Air Force Intelligence Applications Officer had previously served as an adviser to Salient and brings more-than-21-years of information […] More

TeleCommunication Systems has launched a new public safety answering point system that is built to support 9-1-1 calling as well as emergency-related texts, videos and photos. Defender9-1-1 works to integrate with geographic information systems and Internet Protocol networks and comply with National Emergency Number Association standards, TCS said Tuesday. Thomas Ginter, vice president for TCS’ […] More

John Thomas joined Leidos as the Reston, Va.-based national security, health and engineering contractor’s chief strategic officer after Leidos’ 2013 separation from the legacy SAIC organization, where he most recently led close-to-13,000 analysts, scientists, engineers, and business professionals as acting president of SAIC’s National Security Sector. Thomas joined SAIC as an executive focused on military […] More

TeleCommunication Systems has established a technology laboratory for vendors to test if their telephony software and interfaces are capable of processing 911 emergency text messages. TCS’ ESInet Interoperability Lab is scheduled to open in April and was built for testing of text-to-911 architectures prior to a system’s deployment at public safety answering points, TCS said Tuesday. […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. will operate and maintain the Customs and Border Protection agency’s financial management systems under a potential five-year, $86 million agreement. CSC will work with CBP to help develop and implement new financial systems for the agency’s nearly 5,000 SAP users, CSC said Thursday. Catherine Kuenzel, vice president and general manager of the homeland […] More

Harry Lackey III will serve as a business development director at Catapult Technology and will help the company pursue defense, civilian and commercial contracts. The 10-year sales and business development executive veteran will handle the company’s future and current contracts, Catapult announced Wednesday. Lackey was most recently the director of GWAC and IDIQ contracts at Access Systems. He […] More

Rep. Derek Kilmer and the Washington State Procurement Technical Assistance Center will host a workshop Feb. 24 to discuss federal government contracting practices with state businesses and organizations. Jerome Punderson, Naval Sea Systems Command director of contracts, will serve as the keynote speaker for the event in the Carwein Auditorium at the University of Washington-Tacoma’s Keystone Building, […] More

Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including VP and director. Albert caught […] More

SGI and Cognilytics have partnered to integrate high-performance computing with predictive analytics products with the goal of applying the combined tool for big data. InfiniteData Cluster is a cluster computing platform and SGI UV is a shared-memory platform that is built to carry out micro-second data analysis, SGI said Thursday Jorge Titinger, CEO of SGI, said the […] More

Red Hat has given its North American Public Sector Distributor of the Year Award to Carahsoft Technology Corp. for its work to offer Red Hat tools to public sector clients in 2013. The companies started their partnership in 2005 and Carahsoft serves as a sales force to Red Hat in Canada, Red Hat and Carahsoft said Tuesday. Mike Byrd, Red […] More

CACI International will manage system security and support business intelligence reporting work for the Interior Department’s business integration office under a potential five-year, $95 million contract, according to a Jan. 31 FedBizOpps post. DOI aims to leverage software products such as SAP ECC, SAP BusinessObjects and Compusearch PRISM to further develop mobile and light applications, the […] More

At ODNI, I was asked to become the program executive for security clearance reform in 2009, and then I became the deputy assistant director for special security and had pretty frequent interactions with Director Clapper, the director of National Intelligence. Those posts gave me real learning experience for the impact of security across the government. […] More