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  • Executive Profile: Mark Jones,Senior Sales Director for CA's Public Sector Healthcare Vertical - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Mark Jones,Senior Sales Director for CA’s Public Sector Healthcare Vertical

    Mark Jones serves as senior director of sales for CA Technologies‘ public sector healthcare vertical. In this role he assumed in January 2012, Jones is responsible for work to align the company’s offerings with agency goals. He leads an organization that works with the departments of Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs, Social Security […] More

  • Vion's Steve Picot: Agencies Have More Options Than Just Public Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vion’s Steve Picot: Agencies Have More Options Than Just Public Cloud

    Federal agencies that want to acquire cloud computing technologies and services should realize that public cloud platforms are not the only way forward for them as they push to adopt cloud tools, Steve Picot of Vion Corp. has told ExecutiveBiz. Picot, vice president of federal sales for the federal technology services contractor, also told ExecutiveBiz that agencies […] More

  • American Systems, Agilex Chosen for 'Contractor of the Year' Distinctions at GovCon Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    American Systems, Agilex Chosen for ‘Contractor of the Year’ Distinctions at GovCon Awards

    American Systems and Agilex are among this year’s winners of the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards‘ “Contractor of the Year” honor, which sees American Systems take the prize for companies with annual revenue greater than $300 million and Agilex in the $75 million-$300 million revenue category. The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce and Professional Services Council recognized those companies, winners […] More

  • Kay Kapoor of AT&T on Mentorship in GovCon, 'Mobile First' Shift in Gov't - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kay Kapoor of AT&T on Mentorship in GovCon, ‘Mobile First’ Shift in Gov’t

    Kay Kapoor joined AT&T in March 2013 to lead the telecommunications company’s federal business, which has seen several other GovCon and public sector veterans join the organization’s leadership team since then. Kapoor, herself a 25-year telecommunications and contracting veteran, is the recipient of this year’s ACT-IAC Janice K. Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership Award in recognition of her mentorship […] More

  • Mirza Baig: CIO Responsibilities for SkyLink a 24/7 Proposition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mirza Baig: CIO Responsibilities for SkyLink a 24/7 Proposition

    Mirza Baig joined global aviation services and logistics contractor SkyLink Aviation in early September as chief information officer to help lead the firm’s information technology infrastructure and offerings across its five permanent offices and several other field locations. Baig, a more than 14-year federal IT veteran and former federal civilian official, spoke to ExecutiveBiz shortly […] More

  • Eric Wieman on STG's Contract Vehicle Pursuits and Oracle Tech Adoption at Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Wieman on STG’s Contract Vehicle Pursuits and Oracle Tech Adoption at Agencies

    Eric Wieman leads much of STG‘s work with civilian agencies in his role as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s civil sector. The company counts the departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security and State in a group of civilian customers that also includes agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Agency […] More

  • Kevin Winter: Booz Allen Exec Team Keys on IT Security in Threat Landscape - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kevin Winter: Booz Allen Exec Team Keys on IT Security in Threat Landscape

    Booz Allen Hamilton‘s executive leaders have focused much of their attention on information technology security as the firm sees an increase in criminal activities against IT setups, Booz Allen Chief Information Officer Kevin Winter has told FierceCIO. “If you have intellectual property, you have something of value on your network; you’re eventually going to have someone want […] More

  • Executive Profile: Don Morrison, BAE US Intell Sector VP of Contracts & Supply Chain Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Don Morrison, BAE US Intell Sector VP of Contracts & Supply Chain Mgmt

    Don Morrison serves as vice president of the contracts & supply chain management organization for BAE Systems Inc.’s intelligence and security sector. In this role, Morrison is responsible for all contracts, subcontracts, procurement and socio-economic activities for the British contractor’s U.S. subsidiary. Prior to his current leadership position, he was the VP of strategic development for The SI […] More

  • Mercedes Westcott on Cloudera's Hadoop Focus, How to Advance Big Data in Gov't - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercedes Westcott on Cloudera’s Hadoop Focus, How to Advance Big Data in Gov’t

    Mercedes Westcott leads the public sector business at software development company Cloudera in her vice president role there. Her GovCon career includes stops at Delphix as that company’s public sector VP and VP of security software at HP Enterprise Services, which she joined upon that company’s buy of ArcSight. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Westcott discusses the adoption […] More

  • Executive Profile: John Lee, Carahsoft Cloud Services VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: John Lee, Carahsoft Cloud Services VP

    John Lee serves as vice president of cloud services at Carahsoft, a role he has held since he joined the company in 2011. The nearly-three decade government information technology veteran is responsible for work to deliver the company’s pay-as-you-go licensing model for companies such as VMware, Red Hat, Adobe and Symantec, potential cloud service providers, system integrators and government agencies. Lee previously spent 10 years at FedBid and served as […] More

  • Executive Profile: Dewey Houck, VP & GM of Info Solutions for Boeing's N&SS Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Dewey Houck, VP & GM of Info Solutions for Boeing’s N&SS Business

    Dewey Houck serves as vice president and general manager of information solutions for Boeing‘s network and space systems business. Houck also serves as a senior technical fellow for Boeing’s defense, space and security segment. Houck leads an organization of 2,900 employees that focus on work in areas such as security, information management, cybersecurity, satellite and ground operations for […] More

  • Executive Profile: Alex Heidt, Alion Science SVP and GM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Alex Heidt, Alion Science SVP and GM

    Alex Heidt serves as a senior vice president and general manager at Alion Science and Technology, which he joined in March 2013 after service as SVP and GM at Harris Corp.’s information technology services business. Heidt has also served as a VP of Air Force programs at Harris and was responsible for profit-and-loss management, program execution, and business […] More