National Defense Energy & Environmental Alliance, a joint venture between Concurrent Technologies Corp. and Battelle, has been selected with three other contractors to support the National Defense Center for Energy and Environment. E2A will look to demonstrate, validate and transition technologies in an effort to assist Defense Department installations, ranges and weapon systems and work to meet the […] More

Kay Kapoor, president of government solutions business at AT&T, has been included in FedScoop’s list of D.C.’s Top 50 Women in Technology for 2016 in recognition of her work in the federal information technology sector, FedScoop reported Thursday. Kapoor told FedScoop in an interview that women should pursue a career in the field of science, […] More

The trade publication Virginia Business has released the 50 Most Influential Virginians list that includes some prominent executives in the government contracting industry. The list included some of the Northern Virginia Technology Council‘s board members including SAIC President and CEO Tony Moraco, NVTC said Tuesday. NVTC added that representatives of the organization’s board member companies recognized in the […] More

Douglas Manya, formerly vice president, deputy general counsel and secretary at Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined LGS Innovations in February as executive VP, general counsel and secretary. Manya is responsible for the legal, corporate governance, contractual and procurement regulation compliance activities of the company, LGS said Wednesday. He succeeds Michael Garson, who will remain as the company’s […] More

Mike McConnell, former director of national intelligence, has joined Securonix as a member of the company’s senior advisory board. McConnell is a retired military officer and has served as chairman of the board of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance before former President George W. Bush appointed him as director of national intelligence in 2007, […] More

The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has elected leaders from industry and academia as new members of its board of directors and board of advisers. The six new directors will oversee INSA’s strategic planning and operations over a two-year term while the nine new advisers will each serve a term of one year, INSA said […] More

Data center security firm vArmour and Amazon Web Services have formed a partnership to help enterprises secure and manage their data workloads on AWS’ private, public and hybrid cloud computing platforms. VArmour will offer network control, policy enforcement and visibility to clients with workloads that run on AWS cloud environments through its Distributed Security System, vArmour said Monday. […] More

ReportLinker has released a report that predicts the global cybersecurity market to climb in value from $74.2 billion in 2014 to $224.48 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate of 14.84 percent. The company said Monday the growth of the market is due to the growing threat of cyber crimes and their impact on both […] More

Established vendors continue to dominate the federal market for cloud platforms amid competition with commercial newcomers, Alex Rossino writes in a blog post for Deltek. Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, cited IBM as the leading federal cloud vendor based on the value of awarded contracts from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2015. IBM booked $603 […] More

The University of Maryland University College will honor John Hamre and Steven Shirley at a cyber event for their contributions to the field of cybersecurity. UMUC said Friday that Hamre, president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former defense deputy secretary, will receive the Pioneer Award in Cybersecurity. The university […] More

Michelle Quadt works as a public-sector client development adviser within the global infrastructure practice of McKinsey & Company, a management consulting company based in New York. She is a strategy development professional and has more than 15 years of experience working on strategic initiatives in both the private and public sectors. Before joining McKinsey in May […] More

(Susan Penfield is an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton) Culture isn’t created by chance. It’s engineered, practiced, disciplined and starts with people. Creating collaborative spaces that foster collisions of ideas between smart people with diverse experiences and expertise produces better, faster, more relevant technologies and processes. The idea of a culture of innovation is that […] More