SafeNet‘s Breach Level Index report indicates that hackers stole more than 200 million records in the first quarter of 2014, a 233 percent increase as compared to the same period last year. Only one percent of the 254 security incidents reported during Q1 were “secure breaches,” where encryption or authentication systems prevented hackers from using […] 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

Booz Allen Hamilton Executive Vice President Angela “Angie” Messer leads the firm’s initiatives in emerging technologies and mission solutions within its Strategic Innovation Group. In that role, the former U.S. Army officer and former leader of Booz Allen’s Army business focuses on mission areas including C2ISR, cloud computing, social media, data science, enterprise technology, and […] More

CSSI has won prime positions on two portions of the General Services Administration‘s potential 10-year, $60 billion One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Small Business vehicle. The company will be eligible to work in the GSA OASIS SB program’s pools four and six, the company announced Monday. CSSI will offer agencies professional services related to logistics, […] More

Growing awareness from U.K. enterprises on digital criminality could increase demand for methods to repel cyber attacks, according to Martin Sutherland, managing director for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. Ninety percent of U.K. firms responding to a BAE survey believe that attacks will increase over the next two years, the company said Monday. “We’re starting to […] More

Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including VP and director. Albert caught […] More

Six Newport News Shipbuilding and two Ingalls Shipbuilding engineers were honored at the 2018 Black Engineer of the Year Award STEM Global Competitive Conference achievements in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The engineers received the awards during the conference in Washington that took place Feb. 6 through Feb. 8, Huntington Ingalls, the parent company […] More

Twenty-six high school teams and two middle school teams from 14 U.S. states and one Canadian province will participate in the March 28 national finals of the CyberPatriot VI competition, sponsored by Northrop Grumman. This year’s finals will be the first time in the competition’s six-year history that middle school teams were included and they will […] More

As we recently covered, SAIC is continuing to hone in on its management structure as the company moves forward after the legacy SAIC separated into two companies – the ‘new’ SAIC (Science Applications International Corp.), and Leidos. As a new brand, Leidos leaders have needed to introduce and position the firm to the GovCon marketplace, […] More

General Electric Co. has moved to grow its smart grid services customer base by adding new municipal and rural utilities clients for the subscription-based offering, Greentech Media reported Thursday. Jeff St. John writes at least six more customers have subscribed to GE’s Grid IQ solutions-as-a-service unit in addition to existing clients such as the municipal […] More

CGI Group has been awarded a potential six-year, $200 million contract to provide information technology services to a Sweden-based government agency responsible for managing public transportation there. The company will work to help Sweden’s Trafikverket agency create and run applications meant to handle enterprise workloads, CGI said Thursday. Bengt-Goran Kangas, CGI vice president for public sector […] More

Dr. Melvin Greer serves as senior fellow and chief strategist for service-oriented architecture and cloud computing at Lockheed Martin, where he brings more than 25 years of experience leading systems and software engineering efforts to the contractor’s advanced technology office. Greer is a principal investigator in advanced research studies, and has dedicated his efforts towards […] More