The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Center for Women Veterans and nonprofit organization LeanIn.Org have formed a partnership in an effort to provide support to women veterans. The LeanIn.Org Women Veterans’ chapter initiative consists of pilot programs, where women veterans will participate in peer-to-peer meetings and share leadership skills with fellow women veterans and non-military members, VA […] More

Louise Clements has been appointed as ICF International‘s executive vice president, group lead for the consulting services contractor’s ICF Olson group lead and a member of the company’s executive leadership team. ICF said Monday the former MRM/McCann president of the North America East division holds 26 years of marketing, advertising and engagement experience from previous roles in digital marketing, sales and operational organizations […] More

Capella University has collaborated with Pearson to issue digital badges that utilizes the latter company’s Acclaim platform for students under the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security master’s program. Badges issued through Acclaim will record professional skills its students have gained through coursework and certificate programs and be available for delivery to potential employers, Capella said Wednesday. “While […] More

Northrop Grumman has announced the high school and middle school teams that will compete at the final round of the 2016 CyberPatriot VIII national competition scheduled on April 12. The finalists comprise 25 high school teams and three middle school teams, which will go head-to-head in the one-day event to protect networks and mobile devices from a professional aggressor team, Northrop said […] More

Five technology companies back Apple‘s resistance to help the FBI unlock an iPhone to assist in the investigation of a shooting incident that took place in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015, Mashable reported Thursday. Seth Fiegerman writes Apple CEO Tim Cook has argued the de-encryption tool being demanded by federal authorities could set a “dangerous” precedent and compromise the security and privacy […] More

(Keith Salisbury, vice president for U.S. federal sales at Pivotal, shares his insights about the changing nature of software and how industry works with public sector agencies to build modern software similar to Silicon Valley’s most-admired Internet companies with the goal of transformation in government.) The dominant cloud trend we are seeing now contains vastly similar conditions in […] More

Lockheed Martin has introduced the company’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics program to Singapore in partnership with UN Women Singapore. Lockheed Martin said Monday it hosted a STEM event in Biopolis, Singapore, where more than 300 students engaged with U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Carrie Howe, Facebook’s Claire Deevy and Guo Huili, Institute of Molecular and […] More

A new Research and Markets report predicts the U.S. market for green data centers to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 26.35 percent over the next decade. Research and Markets said Thursday the market will be driven by the demand among data center operators for computer systems facilities that are designed to reduce energy […] More

BlackBerry has joined the National Cyber Security Alliance, a nonprofit organization that collaborates with the Department of Homeland Security, corporate sponsors and nonprofit representatives to promote digital privacy and raise awareness on cybersecurity. Edward Hearst, vice president of U.S. government business development at BlackBerry, will represent the company on the NCSA board, the alliance said Wednesday. “Through […] More

Michael Sheridan, formerly chief financial officer at FireEye, has joined electronic signature technology provider DocuSign as CFO and will report to the company’s Chairman and CEO Keith Krach. DocuSign said Wednesday Sheridan will succeed former CFO Mike Dinsdale, who will assume the role of chief growth officer. “[Sheridan] has a remarkable track record of building high growth companies in some […] More

Teal Group‘s 2014 market study on unmanned aerial vehicles indicates a projected $77 billion in global UAV spending over the next 10 years, with spending in the civil market rising alongside the military market’s continued dominance. Teal Group Director of Corporate Analysis Philip Finnegan and Senior Analysts Steve Zaloga and David Rockwell co-authored the report titled “World Unmanned […] More

ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Tina Kuhn, a top cybersecurity executive with Northrop Grumman Information Systems, on Northrop’s international expansion, opportunities for transformation within the government budget environment, how to “build-in” cyber defenses, and more in the cyber space. Kuhn joined Northrop in 2012 after holding a series of GovCon leadership roles focusing on intelligence and […] More