David Svec and his partners at Veris Group formed the Vienna, Virginia-based cyber consulting firm in 2005 to help public and private sector organizations adapt their enterprises to a new cybersecurity landscape. Svec’s government and business career includes stops at Booz Allen Hamilton as a risk management consultant and the White House in a critical infrastructure analysis role. In this conversation […] More

Visiongain published on Oct. 10 a new report on the $238-billion homeland security market that forecasts renewed growth for prime markets in Europe and North America and a surge in demand from Asia and the Middle East. The market analyst said the industry is poised to go through an expansion as it takes in new […] More

Chris Wolf serves as the vice president of contracts and procurement for the Louis Berger Group. The 30-year contracts veteran has experience in both federal and commercial markets with technology and professional services firms such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte and BAE Systems. Wolf served as deputy assistant director at the FBI after 9/11 and was responsible for overseeing the completion of theTrilogy TNC/IPC program, which the […] More

Katie Joyce, former senior business development leader of the community and economic development group at Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined Abt Associates as global business development unit director. “Katie Joyce combines excellent technical skills in business development with superior leadership qualities that will help Abt Associates grow its business and further its mission,” Jay Knott, […] More

Deltek‘s Alex Rossino has outlined his analysis of the U.S. Army‘s spending on the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 2 – Services vehicle in an effort to help vendors prepare for the upcoming ITES-3S iteration in fiscal year 2015. “ITES-3S is expected to be even more heavily utilized than its predecessor due to the Army’s desire to push more of its IT acquisition […] More

Horace Blackman serves as vice president of health and life sciences for Lockheed Martin’s information systems & global solutions business, where he leads a team of more than 1,900 employees that work with federal healthcare agencies. His team supports customers such as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; the Department of Health […] More

IBM, Florida Polytechnic University and Flagship Solutions are set to build a new supercomputing center equipped with cloud-based storage and to be used for STEM education, IBM said Wednesday. The newest addition to the State University System of Florida will house an IBM supercomputer designed to provide students with hands-on training opportunities using high performance computing systems. […] More

Judy Smith serves as vice president of business development for the information systems division of Exelis. She is responsible for identifying and qualifying new business opportunities and ensuring strategic alignment with the business portfolio and financial objectives. The 30-year management, advisory and leadership veteran collaborates with the Exelis executive team to develop, maintain and execute strategic business […] More

Alan Tashima serves as vice president of account management at NJVC, where he is responsible for the strategy development and oversight of the company’s market accounts. He previously served as vice president for intelligence community programs and earlier was an engineering fellow with the company’s information technology/ information services program. Prior to NJVC, Tashima served as a senior associate at Booz […] More

The National Security Agency has issued cyber incident response assistance accreditation to seven companies under the National Security Cyber Assistance Program, the Defense Daily Network reported Wednesday. Following an assessment of 21 focus areas, such as incident analysis and network traffic data collection, the NSA accredited Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, CrowdStrike Services, FireEye, Mandiant, Maddrix and Verizon. NSA’s information assurance directorate also evaluated the […] More

Science Applications International Corp CEO Tony Moraco and Chief Ethics Officer Laura Kennedy have been appointed to lead the Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct’s steering committee and working group, respectively. The company said Monday Moraco and Kennedy will succeed Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and Vice President of Ethics and Sustainability Leo Mackay Jr. in their respective positions on […] More

Veris Group has joined the partner network of Amazon Web Services where Veris intends to help AWS customers design, build, migrate, and manage their workloads, Veris said Tuesday. Vienna, Va.-based Veris will act as a standard tier consulting partner as part of the new deal and will work with both private and public customers. “Our partnership […] More