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  • Motorola Vet Raghu Rau Elected Quantum Board Chariman - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Vet Raghu Rau Elected Quantum Board Chariman

    Raghu Rau, a 16-year veteran of telecommunications firm Motorola, has been elected to chair the board of directors at data management and storage company Quantum. He will succeed Paul Auvil, who will remain with the company as a board member, Quantum said Monday. Rau previously led SeaChange International as CEO and held various leadership roles at Motorola such as senior […] More

  • General Dynamics Mission Systems, IDA Join Wireless Innovation Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Mission Systems, IDA Join Wireless Innovation Forum

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business and the Institute for Defense Analyses have joined the non-profit mutual-benefit Wireless Innovation Forum that aims to advance the use of wireless communications and spectrum-sharing technologies. WInnForum said Thursday the two new members will work alongside radio manufacturers, acquisition authorities, service providers, standards bodies, regulatory agencies, operators and researchers in the group’s spectrum innovation efforts. […] More

  • Former US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy Elected to Boeing Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy Elected to Boeing Board

    Caroline Kennedy, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, has joined the board of directors at Boeing and she will serve on the board’s audit and finance committees. Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing chairman, president and CEO, said in statement published Thursday that Kennedy will contribute her professional, diplomatic and global perspectives to the board’s company oversight efforts. Kennedy previously served on various nonprofit […] More

  • Govt, Tech Industry Vets Named to Govini Board of Advisers; Eric Gillespie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govt, Tech Industry Vets Named to Govini Board of Advisers; Eric Gillespie Comments

    Govini has named six government and technology industry executives to its board of advisers. “Our clients will directly benefit from the strategic initiatives this board and Govini’s leadership team undertake as we pursue our mission to transform the business of government through data science,” Eric Gillespie, founder and executive chairman of Govini, said in a […] More

  • John Hopkins APL Execs Gary Roughead, Christine Fox Named to National Defense Strategy Panel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Hopkins APL Execs Gary Roughead, Christine Fox Named to National Defense Strategy Panel

    Gary Roughead, a member of the board of managers at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; and Christine Fox, assistant director for policy and analysis at JHU APL; have been named to a 12-member advisory panel tasked to provide recommendations for the U.S. defense strategy. Congress established the Commission on the National Defense Strategy […] More

  • Former Federal CISO Gregory Touhill Named to Bay Dynamics Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Federal CISO Gregory Touhill Named to Bay Dynamics Board

    Gregory Touhill, former federal chief information security officer, has joined the board of directors of cybersecurity software provider Bay Dynamics. Bay Dynamics said Tuesday Touhill will support the company’s efforts to implement a risk-based cybersecurity approach for commercial and government customers. He has served as president of Cyxtera Technologies‘ federal business group since July. Touhill became the first-ever […] More

  • IBM’s Nicole Gardner, Center for The Business of Government Establish New Council of Ex-Agency Leaders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Nicole Gardner, Center for The Business of Government Establish New Council of Ex-Agency Leaders

    IBM’s Center for The Business of Government has teamed up with Nicole Gardner, vice president for eminence at IBM’s global business services division, to form a new council of advisers who previously held senior leadership roles at federal, local and state government agencies. The company said Monday the Former Government Executives Council is an 11-member organization […] More

  • Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Joins Unisys' Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Joins Unisys’ Board of Directors

    Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force, has been appointed as a member of Unisys‘ board of directors. James brings more than three decades of homeland and national security experience to the board, Unisys said Monday. “As someone who just recently led one of the branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, [James] […] More

  • Boeing to Exhibit Anti-Aircraft System, Other Tech at SMD Symposium; Jim Chilton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Exhibit Anti-Aircraft System, Other Tech at SMD Symposium; Jim Chilton Comments

    Boeing will participate at the upcoming Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama, where it will feature homeland defense, integrated air and missile defense, commercial satellite and directed energy technologies. The company said Wednesday the event is scheduled at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville from Aug. 8 to 10 and includes a session where Boeing will exhibit alongside […] More

  • Federal IT Market Vet Sal Fazzolari Joins Evermay as Strategy & Growth EVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Federal IT Market Vet Sal Fazzolari Joins Evermay as Strategy & Growth EVP

    Sal Fazzolari, former chief operating officer of Arlington, Virginia-based management consulting firm eGlobalTech, has been named executive vice president for strategy and growth at Evermay Consulting Group. The more than 30-year information technology industry veteran will be responsible for helping expand Evermay’s offerings from acquisition strategy advisory services to a full-spectrum government acquisition consultancy, Evermay said […] More

  • AT&T Eyes Telecom Support Task Orders Under GSA’s $50B EIS Contract; Kay Kapoor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T Eyes Telecom Support Task Orders Under GSA’s $50B EIS Contract; Kay Kapoor Comments

    AT&T will compete for task orders to provide telecommunications services and technologies for federal agencies under the potential 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract the General Services Administration awarded Tuesday. The EIS contract aims to meet the technology requirements of approximately 53 federal agency clients and replace GSA’s Washington Interagency Telecommunications System 3, Networx and […] More