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

Mark Jones serves as senior sales director at CA Technologies, where he oversees the public sector healthcare vertical. He has been at the Islandia, NY.-based firm for close to 20 years where he has held a number of leadership roles and has worked with federal customers for 18 years. Jones spoke to ExecutiveBiz about a variety of […] More

Mutualink has launched a multimedia communications technology to assist emergency management at public, private and parochial K-12 schools by setting a direct link with first responders such as police, fire and medical services. Mutualink K12 unifies voice, data, video and text communications from radio, telephone, public address and other systems into one platform and enables real-time resource sharing with emergency […] More

ATK has demonstrated a booster avionics system the company built to centralize twin solid rockets for NASA’s Space Launch System. The technology has been integrated into hardware and software systems and was subjected to ground test systems and stress evaluations at ATK’s Clearfield, Utah-based lab, ATK said Thursday. “Stressing the system beyond what it will see […] More

Rob Zitz joined Leidos in August 2011 – when it was known as Science Applications International Corp. – as senior vice president and chief ISR systems architect after a three-decade government career that culminated in a deputy director role at the National Reconnaissance Office. The Wash100 inductee and former senior Secret Service deputy associate director leads Leidos’ work to help intelligence […] More

Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has named 17 new and continuing members of a committee that provides the Federal Geographic Data Committee with recommendations on geospatial policy and management issues. The recent appointment brings the total members of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee to 30, each will serve three-year terms, the department announced […] More

Erik Buice leads Northrop Grumman‘s health systems management unit as vice president and leads a team of more than 800 personnel who help federal health agencies manage their information technology systems. Buice’s career has included stops at firms ranging from large to small, including IT and consulting roles at companies such as CGI, Patriot Technologies, […] More

Tim Reardon serves as vice president and general manager of Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin‘s defense & intelligence solutions business units, a 15,000-employee organization. The 15-year Lockheed veteran was most recently the president of the information systems and global solutions-national unit and has previously served as the president of the former IS&GS-global unit and the enterprise integration group. Reardon, a 10-year CIA veteran, […] More

Dell has introduced a cloud-based technology offering in India for integrating healthcare clinical and financial systems, CIOL reported Monday. Healthcare providers and hospitals are able to access workflows and reports across an organization using the centralized application, according to the report. Sid Nair, vice president and global general manager of healthcare and life sciences at Dell Services, […] More

DRS Technologies has delivered its permanent magnet motors offering to Weatherford International Ltd., a provider of equipment for the oil and gas industry. The rugged PR Series 1600 HP magnet motor technology is built to be integrated with Weatherford’s oil drilling mud pump, DRS said Friday. “We believe permanent magnet motor technology and the direct […] More

George Newstrom leads Dell Services Federal Government as its vice president and general manager, a position he rose to after joining the firm in 2011 to help expand its reach in the cybersecurity and intelligence spaces. Newstrom is a retired U.S. Marine Corps electronics and communications officer and also served as secretary of technology for the […] More

Eight collegiate cyber defense teams will participate in the 2014 National CyberWatch Center Mid-Atlantic Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition next week at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. JHUAPL said Wednesday that this year’s simulated scenario will have professional security experts pose as cyber terrorists and conduct attacks intended to disturb relief efforts of a disaster aid distribution […] More