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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
Aerospace and defense firms can expect modest growth in 2014 due to continuing budget cuts in the U.S. and Europe, according to a report by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. DTTL’s annual Global Aerospace and Defense Outlook report forecasts the sector will grow five percent this year which is similar to growth levels recorded in the […] More
Executives at some information technology contractors identified sequestration, tougher regulations and the government shutdown as factors affecting the industry in 2013, CRN reported Thursday. “The reality is the government contracting community [got it] harder than … federal employees,” Steve Halligan, chief operating officer at n2Grate Government Technology Solutions, told CRN. Sarah Kuranda writes that sequester cuts […] More
Boeing and Lockheed Martin want to grow their footprint in the U.K. defense and aerospace market as well as maintain partnerships with existing customers there, the Daily Mail reported Monday. Ben Griffiths write the two U.S.-based contractors have sought growth opportunities abroad to help weather downturn in their home country. Sir Roger Bone, president of […] More
CEO Mike Gregoire says CA Technologies wants to be known as the leading provider of mainframe computing software, which currently accounts for half of the company’s revenues, Times of India reported Friday. Shilpa Phadnis writes Gregorie told the Indian publication in an interview that CA continues to invest in virtualization platforms and intends to focus […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday to kick off a year-long celebration to honor the company’s 100th anniversary. The management and technology consulting firm was founded by Edwin Booz in 1914 and has worked with clients such as the U.S. Navy, American Red Cross and NASA, […] More
Dr. Peter Tippett, chief medical officer and vice president at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, recently spoke with HIT Consultant Media about the company’s approach to health information technology compliance in an interview published Thursday. Tippett told interviewer Lois Drapin at the 2013 mHealth Summit that Verizon uses digital signing and two-factor identification platforms in order to comply […] More
A team of IBM computer scientists and Trinity College Dublin researchers have developed a set of algorithms intended to reduce data centers’ environmental impact by routing cloud computing tasks, VentureBeat reported Monday. Jordan Novet writes the experiment came after IBM obtained a patent in October for a method to identify which facility receives networking requests based on […] More
Juniper Networks will provide a network overlay platform to Hong Kong-based Cyberport for a program designed to virtualize and automate public cloud networking for entrepreneurs in Asia. Cyberport selected Juniper’s Contrail software-defined architecture to deliver networking services and help startups build information and communications technology applications in the cloud, Juniper said Monday. Aruna Ravichandran, vice president […] More
