The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council has formed a working group to help federal agencies and contractors transition to the General Services Administration‘s new governmentwide acquisition vehicle for telecommunications services. GSA awarded the potential 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract in August of last year as a replacement to Networx and at least 80 other federal telecommunications […] More

Leidos has teamed up with IBM, Unisys and Verizon‘s enterprise solutions arm to bid on a U.S. Navy follow-on contract to deliver enterprise information technology services. The Next Generation Enterprise Networks Re-compete Service Management, Integration and Transport program will cover IT and support services to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, Marine Corps Enterprise Network and the Outside of the […] More

Information Technology is evolving at a rapid rate–and so are the cyber threats, defying traditional cybersecurity measures across multiple domains. A 20-year IT veteran with a vision of what comes next is Mona Bates, Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. Bates has held multiple senior leadership positions […] More

“If you are looking for a vendor that is innovative, cost-conscious and seeking every opportunity to do a great job in delivering a world-class positive client experience–that’s Jacobs.” EM: Can you tell us about your background, roles and responsibilities since you first joined in 2014? Vern Saunders: I joined Federal Network Systems in June 2000, […] More

MEF has announced finalists for the company’s 2016 Excellence Awards that recognizes service, application, technology and professional excellence in the global Third Network community. The company said Thursday it will present the awards in November at the MEF Excellence Awards Dinner as part of the MEF16 global networking conference. Global and regional senior analysts from ATLANTIC-ACM, Current Analysis, Frost […] More

PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal systems business, has received FedScoop’s Industry Leadership award in recognition of his work in the field of federal information technology, FedScoop reported Friday. FedScoop founder and CEO Goldy Kamali presented the awards in nine categories to 50 industry and government leaders in the federal IT sector during an awards ceremony held Thursday at […] More

Cal Shintani leads capture strategy, corporate strategy and proposal development functions for Oceus Networks as senior vice president and chief growth officer at the Reston, Va.-based mobile services contractor. Shintani last spoke to ExecutiveBiz for a Q&A conversation on his role at Oceus and GovCon market trends in June 2012, nearly five months after he joined […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has given provisional authorization to 23 commercial cloud service offerings for the hosting of Defense Department data at Impact Level 2, which covers noncontrolled unclassified information. DISA said Monday the offerings comply with the moderate baseline of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). “The granting of these provisional authorizations is an important […] More

Wray Varley serves as area vice president of advanced programs for the departments of Homeland Security and Justice at CenturyLink’s federal government industry. In this role, he directs a sales team that focuses on CenturyLink’s national security-related contracts. Prior to this role, Varley had sales and business development responsibility for all civilian government agencies such as the departments of Energy […] More

Andras Szakal serves vice president and chief technology officer for the U.S. federal practice at IBM, where he is responsible for IBM’s industry technology strategy in support of U.S. federal customers. He leads a department of enterprise and technical architects responsible for developing e-Government software architectures using IBM technology and solutions. ExecutiveBiz caught up with Szakal […] More

Rafeeq Rehman, senior security solutions architect at Verizon Terremark, has urged enterprises to draw lessons from large data breaches that have occurred to retailers in the U.S. and around the world. “While IT and security professionals are trying to piece together information about how the recently reported  U.S. data breaches happened and how many customers are […] More