Microsoft partner Project Hosts is seeking a FedRAMP authorization to offer a range of hosted Microsoft cloud computing offerings to government clients. Project Hosts seeks to deliver Microsoft’s customer relationship management, collaboration software and project portfolio management products to agencies under the FedRAMP program, Project Hosts said Wednesday. Scott Chapman, Project Hosts co-founder and CEO, said […] More

Cyber awareness in corporations is on the rise and they need tools to help with the decision making process in case a cyber attack occurs, Software AG executives Bill Lochten and Chris Steel said to On The Frontlines magazine. Government senior officials, mission leaders and information technology professionals need real-time insight into the important aspects of their […] More

Salient Federal Solutions will host the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission‘s data center operations in a cloud computing environment under a potential five-year, $4 million contract. The company will use a managed services environment to host the commission’s telecommunications and e-government applications, as well as help migrate and integrate the EEOC’s systems into a cloud platform, Salient […] More

Stephanie C. Hill, vice president and general manager of the civil business within Lockheed Martin‘s Information Systems and Global Solutions line, has been selected to receive the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year award from the Career Communications Group. The group recognized Hill for her 27-year career in engineering and leadership roles at Lockheed Martin […] 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

Carahsoft Technology has added cyber threat product provider ReversingLabs to its General Services Administration schedule as part of a partnership on bringing ReversingLabs’ solutions to public-sector customers. ReversingLabs’ threat detection, analysis and classification tools will be available through Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule No. GS-35F-0119Y, Carahsoft said Tuesday. Michael Shrader, vice president for intelligence and innovative solutions at […] More

Jeremy Glesner serves as chief technology officer at software and analysis firm Berico Technologies, a company he helped start in 2006 as the “federal sector began embracing agile methodologies and open source technologies to deliver increased capability to the warfighter while reducing cost,” the company notes. Glesner and Berico’s other co-founders saw an opportunity to provide interdisciplinary teams […] More

Several Sotera Defense Solutions platforms have been included in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s online database of open-source software programs. The company’s contributions to the database include the Zephyr big data tool, Spark MicroPath analytics system and Louvain Modularity method, Sotera says. DARPA launched the Open Catalog website Monday to share technologies and research data […] More

Lou Von Thaer started a new chapter of his three-decade GovCon career in June 2013 as president of a business once part of Science Applications International Corp. that eventually became Leidos‘ national security sector. Von Thaer now leads a team of 13,000 professionals in the sector after previously leading 7,000 employees at General Dynamics Advanced […] More

Charles Sowell serves as senior vice president in Salient Federal Solutions‘ system and software engineering solutions business unit, where he oversees work in the areas of security clearances, insider threat prevention and detection and big data analysis. He most recently served as deputy assistant director for special security for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence […] More

Lynne Chamberlain serves as vice president of business development for Red Hat‘s public sector. The more than 20-year industry veteran has been at Red Hat since 2004 and has previously held leadership roles at Unisys, HP and NetApp. In her Q&A with ExecutiveBiz, Chamberlain discussed her work with systems integrators, some of the newest cloud offerings […] 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