Neustar has appointed Deborah Rieman of Metamarkets and Paul Ballew of Ford Motor Company as new members for its board of directors. “They both bring a wealth of expertise in identity management, customer analytics, marketing and security services,” Lisa Hook, president and CEO of Neustar, said Thursday. Rieman, executive chairman of Metamarkets, has served as CEO of Check Point Software and […] More

PARC has been awarded a $1 million contract with the Energy Department to develop power plant cooling technologies that work to help prevent water dissipation to the atmosphere. The Xerox company will work to engineer and demonstrate a self-cooling metamaterial film without electricity and water feed in collaboration with SPX Cooling Technologies, PARC said Tuesday. […] More

John Lambeth is chief information officer at PAE, where he oversees the company’s information technology strategy, IT support delivery and corporate application development operations. Before PAE, he worked at QinetiQ North America as CIO and managed the firm’s process quality training and management team and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program cloud practice. The […] More

Michael Tanner serves as president and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corp. and has managed the organization’s operations and growth since its official launch as a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Data Systems in April 2013. Tanner, a more than 30-year business management veteran, joined HDS in 2007 and held the roles of a […] More

Richard Hamilton, formerly practice director for sales at Infor‘s public sector, has been named business development executive at professional services firm GCR Inc. He will work at GCR office in Los Angeles and support company’s programs geared toward helping government clients to address disaster management issues through the use of technology, GCR said Monday. Hamilton […] More

John Tomaselli serves as chief operating officer at SAP NS2 — the national security-focused subsidiary of SAP – where he oversees the operations and execution of several lines of business. Prior to this role, he served as SAP’s regional vice president of business analytics and data technology solutions for public services. Tomaselli also served as group vice president of […] More

Tim Conway serves as president of the public sector at NTT DATA, where he oversees the company’s business in the U.S. that works with agencies at the federal, state and local government levels. He served as EVP of the public sector business at Keane prior to that company’s acquisition by NTT DATA in 2011. His 23-year public sector career […] More

A survey from Xerox subsidiary Buck Consultants shows a 0.1-to-0.5 percent decline in the projected increase of healthcare benefit costs, a steady downward trend the company said started in 2010. Xerox said Thursday data from the National Health Care Trend Survey, which 126 healthcare insurers and administrators of employer-provided medical plans responded to, indicated lower rates of […] More

Mark Straton has been appointed senior vice president of sales and marketing at energy management systems provider GridPoint after previously holding the marketing SVP role. “The enterprise energy management industry is ripe for re-imagining as the Internet of Things (IoT) technology such as sensors, big data, cloud-based communication and wireless capabilities continue to advance fields like ours […] More

SRI International has introduced a new platform made for identifying and analyzing circulating tumor cells from blood samples. The FASTcell technology is built as a testing service for cancer researchers and clinicians to detect and capture tumor cells from normal blood cells in order to perform molecular and genetic analysis, SRI said Tuesday. Lidia Sambucetti, […] 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

Government agencies are increasingly looking to adopt practices of their counterparts in the private sector for taking paper documents and transforming them into an electronic format, according to Chuck Brooks, vice president and client executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Xerox. A former legislative affairs director for DHS’ science and technology directorate, Brooks […] More