Avaya’s Government Solutions subsidiary has been selected to provide communication and video services for National Security Technologies’ operations at the Department of Energy’s Nevada national security site. NSTec intends for the Avaya communications system to upgrade the voice and video infrastructure currently in use at the site, Avaya said Tuesday. Mike Paige, president and CEO of […] More

Airbus Group has started construction of a new office campus in five hectares of land next to the Blagnac Airport in Toulouse, France. The new campus will house the company’s headquarters, a building for support and shared services, a security control room, a canteen, fitness center, concierge and welfare services, the company announced Tuesday. The […] More

Leidos has donated $100,000 to The Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health to assist in the upkeep of the inn’s park and playground. The company also gave 25 gift cards to families staying at the inn during the December holiday season, Leidos announced Monday. Since 2011, Leidos and its employees has donated nearly […] More

CA Technologies Inc. has released a forecast for identity and access management trends in 2014 and the how security professionals will interact with the technology. Data, application, infrastructure and network will become software-based through application programming interfaces, CA Technologies said Thursday. Mike Denning, senior vice president and general manager of security business at CA Technologies, […] More

McAfee has given its fiscal year 2013 Federal Partner of the Year Award to ThunderCat Technology after comparing revenue of all McAfee partners. ThunderCat works to develop its security practices and business model based on McAfee technologies, ThunderCat announced Jan. 1. “The work McAfee is doing with their Stonesoft product line around stopping advanced evasion techniques is […] More

Tony Moraco, chief executive of SAIC, is moving to establish a more direct tie between him and members of his management team in 2014. Chief Information Officer Bob Fecteau and Chief Communications Officer Lucy Fitch will both report directly to Moraco beginning sometime after Feb. 1, the contractor said, as will Jennifer Smith, senior vice […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector, has said agencies will control costs, enhance quality and boost the speed of cloud services in 2014, FCW reported Thursday. Carlson writes that the government and private sector have already shifted focus to core business operations from running data centers. Agencies are now able […] More

A new Cisco study estimates that public sector organizations could generate $4.6 trillion in value from Internet-connected objects over the next 10 years. State agencies could generate $682 billion in value by applying the Internet of Everything to public services and cities worldwide could also derive $1.9 trillion through the IoE over the next decade, Cisco said Wednesday. “With […] More

David Buemi serves as vice president of federal energy solutions at Gehrlicher Solar America Corp. where he leads the firm’s marketing and government markets group. Buemi has held executive management positions over 28 years in the clean energy, information technology and consumer products industries and has worked in the photovoltaics industry since 1999. At Gehrlicher, […] More

Stefan Ries, who held human resources leadership roles at SAP AG between 2002 and 2010, will rejoin the German software conglomerate on April 1 as global head of human resources. The former Egon Zehnder principal consultant will be in charge of all HR activities at SAP and lead the company’s HR organization, SAP announced Thursday. Ries will report […] More

The new website developed by the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the Consumer Electronics Association and Monster Worldwide to help veterans find work in the information technology sector is now live. USTechVets.org is designed with a skills translator to help users match their backgrounds with available jobs and built to contain a database of more than 800,000 […] More

Greg Wenzel serves as a senior vice president within Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategic Innovation Group, where he leads the firm’s C2ISR Mission Systems solutions for Defense Department clients and focuses on applying emerging technologies to help solve client business needs. On Friday, Wenzel will moderate an Association for Enterprise Information industry day at Booz Allen’s […] More