Chip Bergh, lead independent director of HP Inc.‘s board of directors since March, has been elected as the personal computer and printing company’s independent board chairman. HP said Wednesday Bergh succeeds Meg Whitman, who held the chairman post since the former Hewlett-Packard organization split in November 2015 into two independent companies now known as HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Whitman is […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has established a Singapore-based regional headquarters in a push to help address a demand for new technologies across the Asia-Pacific and Japanese markets, Nikkei Asian Review reported Tuesday. HPE said it foresees “strong growth” opportunities in the internet of things and hybrid information technology sectors in Singapore, Japan, Australia and India, according to the report. The regional office has […] More

Robert Youngjohns, a senior adviser at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has joined Blueprint‘s board of directors. The Toronto, Canada-based software company said Thursday that Youngjohns brings experience in various leadership roles from his time leading the information technology industry. “Robert is a true pioneer and trailblazer in the world of software and I am very […] More

The Washington-based chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association has elected new members to its executive board for 2016 to 2017 and named Dean Economou, sales director for the Defense Department program at CenturyLink, as president. Nathan Jones, vice president of federal sales at Red Hat, will serve as executive VP of AFCEA […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been approved as a National Security Agency integrator for classified commercial services after the company passed NSA program requirements. As an authorized integrator, HPE is permitted to provide commercial products and services for classified environments under NSA’s Commercial Solutions for Classified program, HPE said June 30. Orlando Figueredo, vice president of consulting and intelligence […] More

Total federal contract spending declined for the sixth consecutive year in the government’s 2016 fiscal year but the team of analysts at Bloomberg Government predict that negative trend to reverse in the current FY 2016. In its BGOV 200 study released Tuesday, Bloomberg Government said federal unclassified contract spend for fiscal year 2015 fell nearly 1.5 percent to a […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has released encryption and tokenization offerings intended to help organizations and government agencies protect large amounts of data, Homeland Security Today reported Thursday. Krysta Dodd writes that HPE SecureData, Hyper Format-Preserving Encryption and Hyper Secure Stateless Tokenization are certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in compliance with the General […] More

Orlando Figueredo leads the intelligence community and public sector consulting services business segments at global information technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise, one of the two companies that formed through the November 2015 separation of the former Hewlett-Packard. The 15-year veteran of HPE and its predecessor who manages business performance for IC accounts and integration of consulting services for U.S. […] More

Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s public sector, has received recognition from FedScoop as part of an annual list of notable female executives in the Washington government information technology community. FedScoop said Thursday that Crouther and 49 other women honorees have demonstrated  leadership in efforts to help federal agencies to carry out IT […] More

Bruce Klein and Paul Opalack have joined Tech 2000 Inc. as members of the company’s board of directors. Klein, formerly senior vice president of Cisco’s worldwide partner organization, and Opalack, managing director of Noblestar Capital, will aid in the company’s effort to further the development of its software-as-a-service businesses appnetic and Lumious, Tech 2000 said […] More

Glen Sharlun, formerly a federal sales executive at ArcSight and Hewlett-Packard, has joined Authentic8, provider of the cloud-based browser Silo, as head of federal operations. Sharlun’s appointment is part of the company’s efforts to expand into the federal market, Authentic8 said Thursday. “Government employees, perhaps more than employees of commercial enterprises, need a completely secure […] More

Five Texas women launched Boot Campaign in 2009 with the intent to promote awareness of the challenges that military personnel encounter during and after active duty, Forbes reported Tuesday. “It feels like there’s a sincere community at Boot Campaign,” Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of the U.S. public sector at Hewlett-Packard‘s enterprise services business, was […] More