Mark Weatherford, a principal at The Chertoff Group, has been promoted to the senior member ranks at the Information Systems Security Association. Weatherford holds the distinction of serving as the Department of Homeland Security‘s first-ever deputy cybersecurity undersecretary and is also a former chief security officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, Chertoff Group announced Tuesday. The senior […] More

IBM Corp. wants to invest $100 million in a 10-year initiative to roll out its artificial intelligence and cognitive systems in Africa in an effort to seek business opportunities in the region. IBM will deploy the Watson technology from its Africa research laboratory, where researchers can develop new services in healthcare, education, water and sanitation, […] More

Keith Salzman, chief medical information officer at CACI International, has been recognized by a health information technology professional group for his work in bringing IT offerings to healthcare services. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society selected Salzman for the 2013 Physician IT Leadership Award in recognition of his service in the U.S. Army, CACI’s healthcare […] More

IBM Corp. and Texas A&M University System have partnered to perform computational sciences research on agriculture, geosciences and engineering through big data analytics and high-performance computing systems. Goals of the research collaboration include to address requirements for extracting energy resources, managing smart grid, developing new materials, identifying and tracking diseases and monitoring food supplies worldwide, […] More

John Chiaramonte has joined Mission Critical Partners as a senior program manager, where he will work to help MCP expand its Next Generation 9-1-1 business. Chiaramonte joins MCP from a lead associate post with Booz Allen Hamilton, a management consulting firm. At Booz Allen, he managed a portfolio of projects supporting the U.S. Department of Transportation‘s National 911 Program and Next Generation 9-1-1 Initiative, […] 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

Lockheed Martin Corp. has provided Spectro Inc. with a license to develop fresh fluid analysis tools using Lockheed’s fluid imaging and classification system. Spectro intends to build new analytics software for fluid and machine status monitoring based on the desktop version of Lockheed Martin’s LaserNet Fines technology, Spectro said Wednesday. The LNF system works to classify particle […] 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

The information technology business unit of General Dynamics has been chosen by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to receive the performance-based logistics award for 2013. General Dynamics Information Technology won the award for its work on the U.S. Marine Corps. combat operating center program, the company announced Thursday. The company and the Marine Corps Systems […] More

  Boeing subsidiary Argon ST is working with Hilbert Technology to develop a context independent anomaly detection system for the U.S. Army. Argon has been under contract to support the Joint Unified Multi-Capable Protection System project and has worked to develop a military sensor test bed, laboratory and data center over the past seven years, Hilbert said […] More